The Society for Nautical Research


Conferences

Forthcoming conferences

  • 12-13 March 2010: New Researchers in Maritime History Conference. Please see here for the programme and booking form.
  • 31 March 2010: One-day Scottish Maritime History Symposium. University of Glasgow. For more information see the conference programme and booking form.
  • 17 April 2010: Pepys and Chips: Dockyards, Naval Administration & Warfare in the 17th Century. Naval Dockyards Society.
  • 677 May 2010: A Sense of Direction: New Researches in the History of Navigation , National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. For more information please see their website.
  • 28 June-2 July 2011: Encounters of Sea and Land. The European Society for Environmental History, Turku, Finland. For more information please see their flyer.

Recent conferences and lectures

  • an Anglo-American conference on the theme of 1812 and After, with the Maine Maritime Museum, USA
  • conference on the theme of British Ships in the China Seas, with the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
  • annual conferences on the major battles of Horatio Nelson, with the 1805 Nelson Club, The Nelson Society and the Royal Naval Museum
  • annual conferences for new researchers (recently held at Exeter, Liverpool, Glasgow, Chatham and Salford), with the British Commission for Maritime History. Abstracts for the 2007 and 2008 conferences can be found on this site.
  • lectures on the history of navigation, with the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Institute of Navigation