King’s Maritime History Seminars 2018-2019 Schedule
Presented By: British Commission for Maritime History and the Society for Nautical Research
18 October 2018
“Doing the Work of the Imperial Government”: The Royal Navy and the Suppression of Chinese Piracy in the Nineteenth Century
Nathan Kwan, King’s College London
1 November 2018
Facing the “Vortex of Militarism”: Gladstone, the Liberals and the Politics of Naval Expansion, 1888-94
Peter Keeling, University of Kent
15 November 2018
“A Drop in the Ocean?”: Insurance, Maritime Law and the French State, 1668-c.1700
Lewis Wade, University of Exeter
29 November 2018
The Abolition of the Admiralty and the Handover of Strategic Maritime Doctrine to the USA, 1945-1964
James W.E. Smith, King’s College London
13 December 2018 TheProctor Memorial Lecture
Top Predators: Privateering, Trawling and Marine Environments
David J. Starkey, University of Hull
Please note: the Proctor Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage and Education Centre and takes place at Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch Street. To be admitted, you must have registered in advance via Eventbrite at the following link where you will also find more specific information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/proctor-lecture-tickets-50390077077
10 January 2019
From Afghanistan to the Arctic: British Maritime Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
James Bosbotinis, J.B. Associates
24 January 2019
Managing Risk in England’s Earliest Transatlantic Enterprises: the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1550-1630
Josh Ivinson, University of Cambridge
7 February 2019
From Whence Came the Royal Navy Fleet of 1939?
Alexander Clarke, Kingston University
21 February 2019
“Cast your bread upon the waters…”: The Rev. John Cynddylan Jones and the Ships of Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co., Cardiff
David Jenkins, National Museum of Wales
7 March 2019
Empire of the Rising Sun and Empire of the Owl: A Comparative Approach to Sea Power as Cultural Identity in Imperial Japan (1868-1941) and 5th Century BCE Athens
Kunika Kakuta, King’s College London
25 April 2019
Protecting the Mediterranean: Ottoman Responses to Maritime Violence in the Eighteenth Century
Michael Talbot, University of Greenwich
9 May 2019
The Air Debate: Naval Ideas of Air Power in the Inter-War Period
Neil Datson, Independent Scholar
23 May 2019
“False Shipwreck’d Sailors”: Shipwreck Imposters and Charity in Nineteenth-Century England
Cathryn Pearce, University of Portsmouth
Seminars take place on Thursdays from 17:15-18:30, 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. Attendance is free and open to all, but to ensure entry you must register in advance via the War Studies events page, which can be found here:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/events/index.aspx (or by googling ‘war studies events kcl’). Locate and click on the specific seminar to find the registration link.
This seminar series is hosted by the ‘Laughton Naval History Unit’ of the ‘Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War’ in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. It is organised by the British Commission for Maritime History (www.maritimehistory.org.uk) in association with the Society for Nautical Research (https://snr.org.uk/).
For further information about the King’s Maritime History Seminar, contact Dr Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS (alan.2.james@kcl.ac.uk).
