Britain and the Sea:
MG's suggested title variations
Britain and the Sea is fine as a working title, but doesn't
identify what we're doing: e.g. were this a book title, what would
we expect the contents to be? Would we buy such a volume, sight unseen?
I'd need at least a subtitle. i.e. think of this as a web search: I
tried http://uk.altavista.com for the terms britain and
sea, and got 51,219 pages. Searching for
+maritime +art +science +britain got a much better targetted
1734 hits; and +war +navigation +sea +britain get 1079 hits.
This is just an illustration: i.e. we need terms which are
meaningful in themselves, and which turn up in targetted web searches.
If the audience is tertiary education,
then familiar trigger-words such as essay, art and
from ... to might be used to help the focus:
But by being more specific we end up with a two-part title, such as:
- Maritime Art & Science in Britain: Henry VIII to World War II;
- The Science and Art of the Sea: Maritime Art from the Armada to Nelson (or whoever);
- War, Science, Navigation, Trade: 500 Years of British Maritime Art;
- War, Science, Navigation, Trade: 500 Years of Britain and the Sea;
- The Maritime Art of Britain from the Bayeux Tapestry to Nelson
(or whoever) - if you want to extend the range of the project beyond actual
objects in the NMM;