Drach's Naval History Conference - London - Saturday 17th Jan 2026
Hello everyone, I'm proud to announce a new naval history conference organised and hosted by me, which will be held aboard HMS Belfast just over a month from now!
We have a range of speakers (including me) lined up covering topics from Antwerp to Naval Art to Future Battleships and more, with further speakers due to confirm their topics soon.
There will be Q&A, meet and greet, a small merch stall for books etc, plus a few other nice things!
The conference presentations and papers will be hosted online at a future date as well, for those of you overseas!
FYI - It has come to my attention that part 2 of the Patreon Drydock and last weeks Drydock are not displaying chapter marks. I do not know why this is, the timestamps in the video description do work and have been put in the same as I've done with the previous Drydock's, but for some reason YT doesn't seem to recognise these last two. I've tried most of the advised measures to fix this without success. If anyone knows if this is a more widespread recent issue or has some esoteric solution please let me know!
My good friend Bernhard over on Military History Visualized is reviewing a naval themed game expansion with both gameplay and historical commentary, check it out if you need to at some live-action longboat mayhem to your life!
Apologies for the signal cutting out on the pair of livestreams today! There seemed to have been problems with phone signal today in the area, but at the time.of the streams it was showing full 5G so what was going on? I am not sure.
Just a quick reminder that the 'Yamato - The Final Letters' project has a few more hours to run before it closes. It's been successfully funded, but if you haven't backed it yet and would like to, now is your chance.
Fans of the channel will get an exclusive collectible item associated with the channel as well (if you backed it independently, there will be a tick-box option in the pledge manager). Link below :)
So, the channel doesn't cover post-1950 naval history, for reasons I've outlined repeatedly over the years. However, as a piece of theory-crafting, would you want a one-off on if the battleship, or something you might style a 'battleship', has a role in the navies of the future?
So, motorcycle enthusiasts, a few months back I posted a video about the time an RAF/FAA air crash almost got my grandfather when he was a boy. I shared this photo of my great grandmother as part of it. So, my question is, does anyone know what make/model of motorcycle it is.
Yes, I may look into reconditioning one if I can find one at a decent price.
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I'm back on Times Radio History, with my other historical obsession, the late 14th/early 15th century :D
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Real life armour testing, medieval style!
It was great to be a small part of this experiment. (If you saw the initial testing video a couple of days ago you may have seen my cameo).
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational longbow formation!
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Drach's Naval History Conference - London - Saturday 17th Jan 2026
Hello everyone, I'm proud to announce a new naval history conference organised and hosted by me, which will be held aboard HMS Belfast just over a month from now!
We have a range of speakers (including me) lined up covering topics from Antwerp to Naval Art to Future Battleships and more, with further speakers due to confirm their topics soon.
There will be Q&A, meet and greet, a small merch stall for books etc, plus a few other nice things!
The conference presentations and papers will be hosted online at a future date as well, for those of you overseas!
www.eventbrite.com/e/naval-history-conference-hms-…
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FYI - It has come to my attention that part 2 of the Patreon Drydock and last weeks Drydock are not displaying chapter marks. I do not know why this is, the timestamps in the video description do work and have been put in the same as I've done with the previous Drydock's, but for some reason YT doesn't seem to recognise these last two. I've tried most of the advised measures to fix this without success. If anyone knows if this is a more widespread recent issue or has some esoteric solution please let me know!
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My good friend Bernhard over on Military History Visualized is reviewing a naval themed game expansion with both gameplay and historical commentary, check it out if you need to at some live-action longboat mayhem to your life!
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Apologies for the signal cutting out on the pair of livestreams today! There seemed to have been problems with phone signal today in the area, but at the time.of the streams it was showing full 5G so what was going on? I am not sure.
I will try and track down some WiFi later.
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Just a quick reminder that the 'Yamato - The Final Letters' project has a few more hours to run before it closes. It's been successfully funded, but if you haven't backed it yet and would like to, now is your chance.
Fans of the channel will get an exclusive collectible item associated with the channel as well (if you backed it independently, there will be a tick-box option in the pledge manager). Link below :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mozuma/yamato-the-fin…
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So, the channel doesn't cover post-1950 naval history, for reasons I've outlined repeatedly over the years. However, as a piece of theory-crafting, would you want a one-off on if the battleship, or something you might style a 'battleship', has a role in the navies of the future?
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So, motorcycle enthusiasts, a few months back I posted a video about the time an RAF/FAA air crash almost got my grandfather when he was a boy. I shared this photo of my great grandmother as part of it. So, my question is, does anyone know what make/model of motorcycle it is.
Yes, I may look into reconditioning one if I can find one at a decent price.
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Hoping to see a few of you at Battleship Mikasa on Sunday 5th or Tuesday 7th (I'll be there both days!)
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