Brunel's Professor of Naval History, Matthew Seligmann, has this week been chatting with BBC History Extra Podcast about the changes made by Winston Churchill to the Royal Navy in the years leading up to the First World War – ranging from pay and conditions to discipline and the treatment of homosexuals.
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The interview was based on Prof Seligmann's book Rum, Sodomy, Prayers and the Lash Revisited (ISBN 9780198759973), which is published by Oxford University Press.
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