The Society for Nautical Research

Conferences

Forthcoming conferences

  • 13-14 September 2008: Weather at Sea: Climate Change and its Effects on the Maritime World, University of Exeter.
  • 13 September 2008: The Collingwood Years: Naval Strategy against Napoleon, 1806-1810. For further details see the 1805 Club's website.
  • 18-21 September 2008: Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility - Mobility and the Environment, International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility.
  • 27th September 2008: Cornish Maritime History Conference at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth. Click here for more details and a booking form.
  • 26-28 September 2008: Empire, Slave Trade and Slavery: Rebuilding Civil Society in Sierra Leone, Past and Present, For Further details, contact Jane Ellison, Conference Manager, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE.
  • 3 October 2008: Archives Afloat, Royal Marines Museum, Southsea, Hants. For more details see www.sea-archives.org.uk.
  • 18 October: Surgeons and the Royal Navy, The Royal College of Surgeons of England Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. For more details click here.
  • Various dates in October 2008: The Empire Lectures, Institute of Historical Research. For more details click here.
  • 18-19 October 2008: Medieval Seas. For further information please contact, Dr Richard Gorski, University of Hull.
  • 19-21 November 2008: 4th Congress on the Maritime History of Catalonia, For further information, contact cursos.mmaritim@diba.cat.
  • 28 February 2009: 4th Sypmosium on Shipbuilding and Shipping on the Thames, Museum in Docklands, West India Quay, London.
  • 13-14 March 2009: New Researchers in Maritime History. An annual conference sponsored by the SNR and this year being held at The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. Please click here for the call for papers for 2009.
  • 12-15 August 2009: Pacific Navigation, The Canadian Nautical Research Society. For more details click here.

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, GlasgowChatham 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