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The naval race between Great Britain and Germany prior to World War I

The images available from this page were primarily selected for the Archives Centre's online educational resource, The Churchill Era. For further information about the historical background to these documents and the key events and individuals connected the naval race between Great Britain and Germany prior to World War I, please visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/education/churchill_era/exercises/naval_race/ where you will also find additional images of documents and illustrations.

Photographs

British and Japanese officers, c. 1905-1908 Tuck Papers, TUCK 3/6/11.
British and Japanese naval officers, c 1905-1908
Reproduced with the permission of Mrs Crotty.
John Fisher Reference: Fisher Papers, FISR 12/1
Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord
HMS Dreadnought under construction, 1906 Reference: Fisher Papers, FISR 15/6/3
HMS Dreadnought under construction, 1906
Crown copyright.
Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. Reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College Reference: Baroness Spencer-Churchill Papers, CSCT 5/3/13
Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College.
Churchill accompanying Kaiser Wilhelm II on manoeuvres in Germany, October 1913. Reference: Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1B/32. Reference: Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1B/32
Churchill accompanying Kaiser Wilhelm II on manoeuvres in Germany, October 1913.