The Society for Nautical Research

Seminars

King's seminars 2008

King's seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm at King's College, London WC2R 2LS. They are open to the general public and are held in the Meeting Room of the Department of War Studies, 6th Floor, Old Main Building, except for the Proctor Memorial Lecture.

This will take place at Lloyds Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS. Admission to this lecture only is solely by ticket, available from Proctor Lecture, GMI, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, London SE10 9LS.

  • 16 October 2008: The Nelson Monument, Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth: A seamark re-discovered Jane Smith, Nelson Society
  • 30 October 2008: The working life, wars and wider context of the "Viola-Dias" Dr Robb Robinson, University of Hull
  • 13 November 2008: Docking to dining: MacPort is with us Dr David Hilling
  • 27 November 2008: The East India Company London's warhouse labourers, 1800-1858 Dr Margaret Makepeace, India Office Records
  • 11 December 2008: The cartographic struggle for the Arctic passages, 1550-1650 Procter Memorial Lecture: Dr Sarah Tyacke CBE, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • 15 January 2009: The Royal Navy and the evacuation of the British Army from Corunna in 1809 Dr Michael Duffy, University of Exeter
  • 29 January 2009: Merlindown, a quest to the bottom of the sea Tim Ackers. Director, Underwater Heritage Trust
  • 12 February 2009: In search of an alternate "nursery of seamen" for the Royal Navy Graeme Miller, King's College London
  • 26 February 2009: TBC Dr Matthew Seligmann, University of Northampton
  • 12 March 2009: New Thoughts on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the sea Dr Willard C Frank, Old Dominion University, Virginia
  • 7 May 2009: The early days of teh Society for Nautical Research Prof Derek Oddy and Dr Hugh Murphy, University of Westminster and National Maritime Museum
  • 21 May 2009: TBC TBC

The seminar programme is organised by the British Commission for Maritime History with sponsorship from the Society for Nautical Research, the Maritime Information Association and the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.

For further information, contact Professor John Armstrong, 42 Inglis Road, Ealing, London W5 3RL.