No music here but a discussion & inf about prison hulks. Myths, ships and history feb 2025 Freethinking - BBC Radio4 ,,, "prison hulks", decommissioned warships moored on docks to house criminals. Dr Anna McKay of the University of Liverpool can tell us more about how the hulks, supposed to be a short term solution to a crisis, ended up being used for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w8h7 > skip to ~19.30 12 minutes (rest of the programme,,, Dr Lloyd Belton of the University of Glasgow studies the Kru - fiercely independent West African sailors who formed an alliance with the Royal Navy to rid the African coast of slavers. And Dr Oliver Finnegan from the National Archive at Kew will tell us about the enormous historical potential of the "Prize Papers", a collection of thousands of unopened letters, legal papers and other documents from ships captured by British privateers and the Royal Navy between 1652 and 1815. )
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