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 at the International Maritime Organisation HQ in September 2023 and the related online feast at https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rewriting-women-into-maritime-history. In her personal capacity as an Editorial Board consultant for this ongoing project, Jo will use images and cartoons, to reveal this acclaimed initiative, its contexts and its role in enhancing diverse maritime historiography.
Dr Jo Stanley FRHistS (Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull) is a leading writer about the history of gender and diversity on ships. Her books include Women in the Royal Navy (2017); From Cabin "Boys" to Captains: 250 years of women at sea (2016); and (with Paul Baker) Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Homosexuality at Sea (2003, 2015). She contributes to social media at http://genderedseas.blogspot.com and on LinkedIn.
7 March 2024
Interplay of Empires: The Quest for Influence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
Cemal Atabaş, Marmara University, Istanbul
21 March 2024 Note: This session will be delivered entirely online.
The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Biggest Naval Catastrophe of the First World War
Stuart Heaver, Journalist and Author
25 April 2024
Ship of State? Regionalism and Cold War Soft Power aboard La France
Claire O’Mahony, University of Oxford
9 May 2024
The Ordered Sea: Naval Diplomacy in the Mediterranean, 1815-1911
Erik de Lange, King’s College London
23 May 2024
The Post-Napoleonic Employment of Former Warships in the British Southern Whale Fishery, 1815-1845
Julie Papworth and Roger Dence, King’s College London
Seminar location and registration
The King’s Maritime History Seminars for 2024 will continue as hybrid events which means that they may be attended in person or online (with the exception of the entirely online event on 21 March).
As always, attendance is free and open to all.
To take part, you must register by visiting the KCL School of Security Studies Events page, here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/security-studies/events .
Those of you attending the regular seminars online will receive instructions shortly before the event, by email, about how to join. Otherwise, we will meet in person, as usual, in the Dockrill Room, K6.07, at King’s College London. Papers will begin at 17:15 GMT.
For further information contact Dr Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS (alan.2.james@kcl.ac.uk).