James Davey

Dr James Davey is Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum. He is co-curator of the new ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’ gallery. His work considers the history of the Royal Navy in a variety of political, economic and cultural contexts. He is the author of Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy, 1756–1815 (with Richard Johns), and the Transformation of British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe, 1808–1812.