Peter Moore @petermoore
Historian of old ships, storms and ideas. Next book is A Dangerous Game on Thomas Cochrane – out in Sept. Also teaching non fiction at @OxMst peter-moore.co.uk W14, London Joined May 2008-
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Out now! Literary Review's June 2026 issue, featuring @petermoore on George Forster @writerperkins on the Balfour family @william_whyte on British dons Ian Thomson on the fall of the USSR John Mullan on Emily Brontë and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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@peterfrankopan Nowt better than a Whitby collier :)
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Thomas Cochrane would like a word.
Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."
@grok Might you be able to tell me who gave Cochrane the nickname “The Sea Wolf” and when they said it?
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Big work underway on Endeavour! We’re beginning a major conservation project to replace the standing rigging - the 56mm shrouds that support each mast and spar, carrying all 28 sails under constant tension. This is highly specialised work, completed using centuries-old ropemaking and rigging techniques, and it will unfold over many months to keep Endeavour seaworthy for generations to come. Be part of this journey. Please donate today to help preserve this remarkable ship. sea.museum/en/support/don… Image: David Mandelberg for ANMM #Support #Endeavour #Ropemaking #rigging
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On Monday, the Chilean Naval Mission in the UK laid a wreath at Cochrane’s tomb in @wabbey, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Lord Cochrane. The ceremony was led by the Rev. Dr James Hawkey, Canon of the Abbey & CN Sven Barckhahn, Head of the Naval Mission.
This is infuriating. If the allegations are shown to be true it really is the most shamefully mendacious behaviour. Both a fraud on the reading public and two fingers up to the rest of us n/f writers.
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj Read: bit.ly/3GtJXsy
The novelist Patrick O'Brian died 25 years ago today. Very few writers are stylists and storytellers in equal measure, but I think O'Brian, with his Aubrey-Maturin series, is one. To mark the moment I recorded an interview with his stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy unseenhistories.com/tolstoy-patric…
I first researched the shipwreck of the Royal Charter when I was writing a book called The Weather Experiment a decade ago. It was one of the great disasters of the Victorian Age and I found the details just as haunting this time around. Here's a new piece on that old story.
@JenSugden Thanks Jen! Must run you to ground soon. What an exciting year you've had. I'd love to hear all about it.
It's back to sea for me. Thomas Cochrane really did live the most astonishing of lives on a vast, global stage. Still a colossal figure in South America, everyone seems to have forgotten his story here in the UK. It's time, I think, to tell it again.
.@ChattoBooks has signed A Life on the Edge: Thomas Cochrane, Hero, Radical, Revolutionary by @petermoore, a 'revelatory' life of the man who inspired swashbuckling fictional heroes Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)
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436 yrs after they sailed up the Channel, the Spanish Armada (one of them at least) arrived in London yesterday. The Galeon Andalucia, a full size replica of a 17th c Spanish warship, will be docked at St Katherine Docks near Tower Bridge from Sept 24 - Oct 6 and you can visit
@GeorgianLords Thanks v much! He's a very political figure, bound up with Burdett, Cobbett and other radicals of that time and type. His Parliamentary career was very colourful and explosive so many reasons for me to trouble you.
@Iamasmamahmood Thanks! Am actually considering a new audio project. And do check out @tttpodcast_ if you haven’t already
@Lobby_Hodder I take the point, although he did have a few extra misfortunes than Nelson and he does have a rather nice spot in Westminster Abbey :)
Peter Moore retweeted
#bridgesThursday - a bit of mid-week calm watching the Whitby Swing Bridge (eng J Mitchell Moncreiff) opening & closing as it has been doing since 1909
@anaya_huertas Gracias Alejandro. Nice quote!
On Samuel Johnson's (new style) birthday, a little piece on my favourite of his great Rambler essays — No. 2: 'The necessity and danger of looking into futurity' unseenhistories.com/samuel-johnson…
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