The British Commission for Maritime History
King’s Maritime History Seminars, 2016-17
6 October 2016
Rescuing Gallipoli: Sir Julian Corbett’s Official History and the Future of Maritime Strategy
Andrew Lambert, King’s College London
20 October 2016
Declining Effectiveness: the RNAS and the Defence of Halifax, Nova Scotia, from German Submarines in the First World War
Ian F. S. Stafford, Constitutional Lawyer, MA Imperial History
3 November 2016
Gunfire from a Distant Shore: Franco’s Navy in Spain’s Civil War Extends Operations against Republican Shipping into the North Sea
Nick Coni, former Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
Proctor Memorial Lecture (*hosted by Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch St.)
17 November 2016
The Armada Portrait: Manifesto for a Maritime Empire?
Christine Riding, National Maritime Museum
1 December 2016
John Holland (1841-1914): Submarine Pioneer
John Swinfield, Television Producer and Author
26 January 2017
Come into Port Gently: Comparative North Atlantic Paradigms in Port History
Lewis R. Fischer, Memorial University, Newfoundland
9 February 2017
The Historiography of Force Z: Understanding the Royal Navy’s Greatest Defeat of the Second World War
Andy Boyd, University of Buckingham
23 February 2017
The Manila Galleon, 1565-1815
Ian Wilkinson, Independent Researcher
9 March 2017
The Manganese Trade from Cornwall and Industrial Activity in Liverpool in the Early Nineteenth Century
Peter Skidmore, Independent Researcher
27 April 2017
Shipbuilding: Information and Process
Roy Metcalfe, World Ship Society Library and Archive, Chatham Dockyard
11 May 2017
A Most Disagreeable Problem:The Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine Aircraft Carriers
Marcus Faulkner, King’s College London
25 May 2017
The Cutting out of the French Corvette: La Chevrette during the Napoleonic Wars
Sim Comfort, independent researcher and publisher
*This seminar series is hosted by the ‘Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War’, King’s College London, and organised by the British Commission for Maritime History (www.maritimehistory.org.uk) in association with the Society for Nautical Research. 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 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)
The programme can be downloaded as a PDF
