The British Commission for Maritime History
King’s Maritime History Seminars, 2014-15
9 October 2014
Did Richard the Lionheart Found the Royal Navy? The crown and sea defence in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Susan P. Rose, Roehampton University
23 October 2014
Maritime Piracy: A Twentieth-Century Re-Genesis?
Robert McCabe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
6 November 2014
Antarctic Encounter: the Palmer-Bellingshausen Meeting, 1821
Rip Bulkeley, Independent Researcher
Proctor Memorial Lecture (*hosted by Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch St.)
20 November 2014
Taking the War to Napoleon: Strategy, Merchant Shipping, and Private-Sector Warship Building, 1803-1815
Roger Knight, University of Greenwich
4 December 2014
English Heritage C20 Characterisation Study: Naval Dockyards Devonport and Portsmouth –Just in Time?
Ann Coats, University of Portsmouth
8 January 2015
Tramps Ocean and Coastal: what we know and what we don’t know
Roy Fenton, Independent Researcher and Partner in ‘Ships in Focus Publications’
22 January 2015
Organising Supply: The political economy of naval armaments manufacture, 1925-41
Christopher Miller, University of Glasgow and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
5 February 2015
Devonport Dockyard and the First World War
Michael Duffy, University of Exeter
19 February 2015
A Catastrophic Blunder: the Japanese failure to adopt convoy in its own waters in WWII
Malcom Murfett, National University of Singapore
5 March 2015
The British Shipbuilding Industry, Warship Exports and the Ministry of Defence in the 1970s: a case study of the Type 24 frigate
Ed Hampshire, The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
30 April 2015
La Decima (XMAS): the Italian Commando Frogman Unit in the Adriatic and their dispersion after WWII
Manuel Moreno Minuto, Italian Navy
14 May 2015
1863/1864: Some British and Allied Naval Operations in Japanese Waters
Jonathan Parkinson, Independent Researcher
28 May 2015
‘ Goods to Newcastle’: An Unexplored Coastal Shipping Network, 1800-1840
Adrian Osler, Independent Maritime Historian
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This seminar series is hosted by the ‘Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War’ and the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and organised by the British Commission for Maritime History. Meetings take place on Thursdays at 17:15 in rm K6.07, Dep’t of War Studies, KCL, Strand, WC2R 2LS (6th Floor, King’s Building), with the exception of the Proctor Memorial Lecture which takes place at Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BS. Admission to this lecture is by ticket only, available from Barbara Jones, Information Services, at the above address or by emailing Barbara.jones@lr.org. Thanks are given for the generous assistance of the Society for Nautical Research, the Maritime Information Association, Lloyd’s Register, and King’s College London. For further information, contact Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS (alan.2.james@kcl.ac.uk) or Richard Gorski, History, University of Hull, HU6 7RX (r.c.gorski@hull.ac.uk)