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Every family needs a bare minimum of two copies of #BritainatBay + a brace of #AdvanceBritannia to boot
albertherring.bsky.social Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · Dec 25
@alanallport.bsky.social has my family well trained...
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
alanallport.bsky.social
The North American Conference on British Studies meeting is in Pasadena in November and I am honored to be taking part in a round table on #BritainatBay and #AdvanceBritannia. Thanks to @arjm5184.bsky.social for putting it together.

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July 9, 2026 at 5:39 PM
alanallport.bsky.social
#BritainatBay too

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June 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
alanallport.bsky.social
Re-read? Re-buy, surely!

Ok, actual advice: depends how much they remember from v1 and how much they know about the war in general going in, I suppose. There are a few references in #AdvanceBritannia to the things in #BritainatBay but the two volumes are intended to be free standing.
February 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
curatorian.bsky.social
Reading a bit more of @alanallport.bsky.social's #BritainAtBay about the Battle of the Atlantic. The story of SS Anglo Saxon always gives me pause, not least because the Anglo Saxon jolly boat - survivor of a 70-day oceanic voyage - is on display at #IWMLondon.
For those men who did get to the lifeboats, subsequent survival chances varied greatly depending on weather, sea state, proximity to land and other ships, and whether their radio operator had had a chance to signal a dis-tress call before the ship foundered. In the well-trafficked North Atlantic, half of crews were rescued within an hour of their vessel being sunk, two-thirds within one day. But one in five was adrift for more than a week. Survival chances were excellent in the first forty-eight hours but then gradually declined, and fell precipitously after fifteen days. There were some extraordinary exceptions to this. Two of the original seven survivors of the SS Anglo Saxon lived through a seventy-day, 2,800-mile lifeboat voyage in the summer of 1940. Weather conditions mattered a great deal to survival chances. If the sea temperature was below 5° C, there was a one-in-four chance of dying of hypothermia and exposure before you could be rescued. The SS Anglo-Saxon jolly boat, on display at IWM London.
September 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
electricpolecat.bsky.social
I really enjoyed #AdvanceBritannia and #BritainatBay. Memories of WW2 dominated my childhood in the 60s/70s. The people who raised & shaped me: my Dad, umpteen uncles & a few aunts served in the forces, while my mum was at school & was bombed.
The books brought their experiences to life.
May 11, 2026 at 12:24 PM