The Society for Nautical Research


Centenary events

21 January 2010Centenary launch at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth - report with photos
February 2010 Publication of The Mariner’s Mirror, Annual Bibliography, Newsletter and H Murphy and D J Oddy, Mirror of the Seas: A Centenary History of the Society for Nautical Research (London, 2010)
13 May 2010NASOH Annual Conference, Avery Point, Mystic Seaport. Centenary Lecture, given by Professor Richard Harding at A P Bransford House, University of Connecticut. Reception at 16.00pm, lecture, 17.00pm
16 June 2010Reception and centenary lecture in Whitehall, London SW1
10 July 2010Annual General Meeting and dinner on board HMS Victory
15 September 2010Reception and centenary lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh
22 September 2010Reception at the National Maritime Museum and address by Professor Roger Knight - photos
29 September 2010Professor Jeremy Black gives the first annual Alan Villiers memorial lecture at St Edmund’s Hall
9 October 2010'The opening of Terra Australis'. A one-day conference sponsored by the SNR, at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
22 February 2011our Patron, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, attended a Reception at Trinity House, Tower Hill, London, celebrating the Centenary - photos
6 & 7 August 2011Final Centenary event: The Victory Medal Weekend, with visits to HMS Trincomalee, the Hartlepool Maritime Experience and The Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby photos