All,
I have begun this new thread so that we can put to the past the saga of the ADB postal misfortune. Also as the journal is having a fresh editorial start, why not a good, positive reception for it?
First of all, I was delighted to receive my copy of the ADB yesterday and was struck by the streamlined new look of the cover and page lay-out. Great improvements.
I would like to welcome the journal's new editor, David Hill, and congratulate him as well as Steve Rigby and Geoff Whitfield on a fine issue indeed.
Also I'd like to send thanks and good wishes to retiring editor Brian Ticehurst for his tireless dedication to BTS.
For those not members yet of what is really one of the finest Titanic organizations, operated by the best group of people I think there is in any society, I recommend you do so.
The current issue of the membership journal is a feast of original work by some of the brightest researchers and writers contributing to any Titanic publication today and I just think it will be a shame for anyone to miss out on the enjoyment to be had in reading these articles.
The present ADB includes David Haisman's study of the "lookouts," a profile of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by Ian Tregale, a story by Peter Davies-Garner about his Titanic model-building, G.G. Connor's piece on the Nomadic, David Hill's account of the Maritime Volunteer Service's Titanic exhibition, a story on the Laurentic by Christopher Wardlow, Mark Chirnside's account of Britannic's engines, an explanation of Titanic's distress rockets by Bruce Beveridge, and Jim Buchan's biography of the Kronprinzessin Cecile.
The journal's lead feature, as has been much discussed (and rightly so), is Phil Gowan's and Brian Meister's extensive and provocative biography of Titanic's embattled quartermaster, Robert Hichens. This is no revisionist, sentimental attempt but a frankly and deftly told story with all the insight and thoroughness that is a hallmark of the research of Meister and Gowan.
My hat is off to all connected with this most interesting issue of the ADB. And special congrats again to Geoff, Steve and David for a very, very fine job!
Randy
I have begun this new thread so that we can put to the past the saga of the ADB postal misfortune. Also as the journal is having a fresh editorial start, why not a good, positive reception for it?
First of all, I was delighted to receive my copy of the ADB yesterday and was struck by the streamlined new look of the cover and page lay-out. Great improvements.
I would like to welcome the journal's new editor, David Hill, and congratulate him as well as Steve Rigby and Geoff Whitfield on a fine issue indeed.
Also I'd like to send thanks and good wishes to retiring editor Brian Ticehurst for his tireless dedication to BTS.
For those not members yet of what is really one of the finest Titanic organizations, operated by the best group of people I think there is in any society, I recommend you do so.
The current issue of the membership journal is a feast of original work by some of the brightest researchers and writers contributing to any Titanic publication today and I just think it will be a shame for anyone to miss out on the enjoyment to be had in reading these articles.
The present ADB includes David Haisman's study of the "lookouts," a profile of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by Ian Tregale, a story by Peter Davies-Garner about his Titanic model-building, G.G. Connor's piece on the Nomadic, David Hill's account of the Maritime Volunteer Service's Titanic exhibition, a story on the Laurentic by Christopher Wardlow, Mark Chirnside's account of Britannic's engines, an explanation of Titanic's distress rockets by Bruce Beveridge, and Jim Buchan's biography of the Kronprinzessin Cecile.
The journal's lead feature, as has been much discussed (and rightly so), is Phil Gowan's and Brian Meister's extensive and provocative biography of Titanic's embattled quartermaster, Robert Hichens. This is no revisionist, sentimental attempt but a frankly and deftly told story with all the insight and thoroughness that is a hallmark of the research of Meister and Gowan.
My hat is off to all connected with this most interesting issue of the ADB. And special congrats again to Geoff, Steve and David for a very, very fine job!
Randy
