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Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited
Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915
Author: Matthew S. Seligmann
Narrator: John Lee
Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HighBridge
Published: 11/27/2018
Synopsis
"Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash." This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915.