Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922 – 8 May 1986) was a noted 20th-century Britishhistorian specializing in theMediterranean world and naval topics.[1][2][3][4] He was also an authority on antique jewellery and was the founder editor of theAntique Dealers and Collector's Guide.[1][5][6]
A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there.[12][13][14] His book,The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages.[15] It ends with the sale of hisBristol Channel Pilot Cutter,Mischief, to HWBill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes.[16]
A sometimeBBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was also a prolific author and popular historian, many of his books remaining in print to this day.[9] He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particularThe Times andCountry Life, on matters of history and sailing.[17][18]
Bradford lived inKalkara, onMalta for a number of years, this also being where he died, and where a commemorative marble plaque exists to his memory and a street next to his old home is named after him.[9]
ContemporaryJewellery and Silver Design (Heywood & Co., 1950).
Four Centuries of European Jewellery (Country Life, 1953).
The Journeying Moon (Jarrolds, 1958); reprinted as:The Journeying Moon:Sailing into History.
English Victorian Jewellery (Country Life, 1959).
The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of the Royal Navy's Proudest Ship (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).[19]
The Wind Off the Island (Hutchinson, 1960); reprinted as:The Wind off the Island: A Portrait ofSicily and Life on the Mediterranean Sea.
US title:A Wind from the North: The Life ofHenry the Navigator (Harcourt Brace, 1960); UK title:Southward theCaravels: The Story of Henry the Navigator (Hutchinson, 1961).
TheGreat Siege: Malta 1565 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961); US title:The Great Siege (Harcourt Brace, 1961).
Drake. A Biography (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965); US edition:The Wind Commands Me: A Life ofSir Francis Drake (Harcourt, 1965); subsequently reprinted asDrake: England's Greatest Seafarer.
(Editor)The Siege of Malta 1565: Translated from the Spanish Edition of 1568 byFrancisco Balbi di Correggio (Folio Society, 1965); reprinted by the Boydell Press, 2011.
Wall of England: TheChannel's 2000 Years of History (Country Life, 1966); USA:Wall of Empire: The English Channel (Barnes, 1966).
The Great Betrayal:Constantinople 1204 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967); USA:The Sundered Cross: The Story of theFourth Crusade (Prentice Hall, 1967).
The Sultan's Admiral: The Life ofBarbarossa (USA: Harcourt Brace, 1968; UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969).
The Shield and the Sword: TheKnights of Malta (HarperCollins, 1972); US edition:The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta (Dutton, 1973).
^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014).Paul the traveller: St. Paul and his world.OCLC933438606.
^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014)."The Great Ship". Open Road Media – via Open WorldCat.
^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014)."The Journeying Moon". Open Road Media. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved10 November 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
