King’s Maritime History Seminar Programme 2015-2016 Released
King’s Maritime History Seminars, 2015-16
8 October 2015, Inadequate Convoy & ASW: own goals that would come back to haunt the IJN in the Pacific War
Malcolm Murfett, King’s College London
22 October 2015, Ideology and Early Modern Naval Power
Gijs Rommelse, Haarlemmermeer Lyceum, Hoofddorp
5 November 2015, Maritime Relief: Transnational Charities for British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France
Elodie Duché, York St John University
Proctor Memorial Lecture (*hosted by Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch St.)
19 November 2015, Collaboration Between Two Maritime Nations? Britain and The Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century
Joost Schokkenbroek, National Maritime Museum and VU University Amsterdam
3 December 2015, From Clyde to Korea: British Assistance in the Establishment of the World’s Largest Shipyard
Stig Tenold, The Norwegian School of Economics
7 January 2016, Privateers, High Courts, and Ministers: Britain’s Failure to Maintain Spanish Neutrality in the Seven Years War
Anna Brinkman, King’s College London
21 January 2016, Steam Coaster Robin: Preservation Triumph or Tragedy?
Roy Fenton, Independent Researcher and Partner in ‘Ships in Focus Publications’
4 February 2016, Hilarious Seasickness: Comic Postcards’ Take on Travel’s Costs, 1900-1950
Jo Stanley, Author and Consultant
18 February 2016, Naval Diplomacy: Classic and Modern Theory Revisited
Jerker Widén, Swedish Defence University
3 March 2016, The Salvaging of the ex-German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow (1924-1939)
Ian Taylor, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects
28 April 2016, U.K. Shipping during the Industrial Revolution: Newly Accessible Data from Lloyd’s Registers
Peter Solar, Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
12 May 2016, The Challenge of Empire: The Strategy and Tactics of the Spanish Navy, 1748–1783
Catherine Scheybeler, King’s College London
26 May 2016, Maritime Employment During the First Globalization: the Mediterranean Perspective
Maria Fusaro, University of Exeter
Organised by the British Commission for Maritime History and supported by the Society for Nautical Research, King’s College London, Lloyd’s Register and the Maritime Information Association, the seminars are open to all and are held at 1715 in Room K6.07, of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS.
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