Nick Hewitt

Nick Hewitt is a naval historian who works for Orkney Islands Council. He studied history at Lancaster University and War Studies at King’s College, London, before working at Imperial War Museums and The National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Nck’s broadcast credits include presenting the BBC’s Coast, Channel 5’s D-Day’s Sunken Secrets (2014) and the BBC’s Battle of Jutland: The Navy’s Bloodiest Day (2016). His first book, Coastal Convoys 1939-1945, was published in 2008, and he has since published The Kaiser’s Pirates (2013) and Firing on Fortress Europe (2015). His latest book, Normandy: the Sailors’ Story, was published by Yale University Press in 2024.