Event
King’s Maritime History Seminars 2024
King’s Maritime History Seminars, 2024
The King’s Maritime History Seminar is hosted by the ‘Laughton Naval Unit’ and the ‘Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War’ in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. It is organised by the British Commission for Maritime History (www.maritimehistory.org.uk) in association with the Society for Nautical Research (https://snr.org.uk/).
2024
11 January 2024
The Peter Davies Memorial Lecture
The Question of Maritime Child Labour after the First World War
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
25 January 2024
Canadian Pacific's three Empresses of Britain in literary, visual and material culture
Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow
8 February 2024
‘For want of System’: The birth of amphibious doctrine in the Seven Years War
Andrew Young, King’s College London
22 February 2024 : FREE TALK at 5.15pm, Kings College, London.
Rewriting Women into Maritime History: visibilising diverse histories and futures, 1700-2023
Dr Jo Stanley, Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull
Pioneering captains. Under-sung port workers. Atypical seagoing mums. The history of maritime women is wide-ranging and their historiography has been sparse. Since 2023 Lloyd's Register Foundation's Heritage and Education Centre is giving the subject a new filip, including the She_Sees exhibition…