
Dr Sam Willis
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Historian & Broadcaster | BBC + Nat Geo | #UnexpectedPodcast @UnexpectedPod | Mariner’s Mirror podcast @nauticalhistory | Insta @DrSamWillis
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http://sam-willis.com 14-09-2010 10:31:04
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Time to get your reading shoes on. This is brilliant from Prof. Frank McDonough 👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


I've spent the last few weeks dramatising witness testimonies at the Titanic enquiry for the Mariner's Mirror Pod 🎧⚓️ Society for Nautical Research. Here's the brilliant historian and pro scouser Prof. Frank McDonough playing the part of Liverpudlian stoker Frederick Barrett. snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…


We brought Nelson back to life from a plaster cast made of his face when he was alive. Latest episode teaches you all about heroic death in the age of sail with Dr Sam Willis and Dr Dan O'Brien ☠️🎧. #trafalgarday #trafalgar #Nelson play.acast.com/s/the-mariners…


This is fun! Histories of the Unexpected Unexpected is back for Xmas with James Daybell


The Cold War Rail Ferry 📽️ At the height of the Cold War, these were the largest ships built in the GDR and the largest railway ferries in the world! Learn more about the Rail Ferry from the International Maritime Organization collection 🔗 youtu.be/mTGAMD0vhLk

This is HMS Vanguard, a battleship launched in 1944. The only ship of her class and the largest and the most sophisticated battleship ever built for Royal Navy. She was also the last battleship ever built for the Royal Navy. Full VT 👉📽️🔗youtu.be/CExPlCkwq-g



Latest podcast with Dr Sam Willis and the brilliant naval historian Angus Konstam on one of the most dramatic convoy stories of #WW2. get listening. 🎧⚓️💥 snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…


We're SO CLOSE to 500,000 downloads with the brilliant Mariner's Mirror Podcast 🔥🎧⚓️🔥 from Society for Nautical Research and LRF Heritage & Education Centre ; if you haven't listened yet here's the latest 4 eps to whet/wet the maritime appetite - and they're all BRILLIANT snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…





Latest Podcast! The Amazing History of Icebreakers! with Dr Sam Willis and LRF Heritage & Education Centre snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…


Latest Podcast! Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners Dr Sam Willis finds out about the amazing John Sayers collection Bodleian Libraries snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…


I’m talking shipwrecks with Cerys Matthews today at 11! Get tuned in to BBC Radio6💥⚓️❌👀