King’s Maritime History Seminars,
(Spring / Summer 2025)
9 January 2025 Captain Michael Barritt, Royal Navy
Nelson’s Pathfinders: Hydrography and the Triumph of British Sea Power 1793-1823
23 January 2025 Matthew Heaslip, University of Portsmouth
Staying afloat – managing mission creep during the Royal Navy’s intervention in the Baltic, 1918-1919
6 February 2025 Helen Doe, University of Exeter
The RNLI at Dunkirk and the Little Ships Myth
20 February 2025 Bruno Cianci, University of Genoa & Rahmi M Koç Museum (Istanbul)
‘In the name of God’, the Journal of the voyage made to the Levant by three warships under the command of John Acton in the years 1750-51
6 March 2025 Edward Hampshire, Naval Historical Branch MOD
‘Failing to prepare for the unexpected’: British defence policy in the late Cold War and the Royal Navy
10 April 2025 David Kohnen, Captain Tracy Barrett Kittridge Scholar of War Studies and Maritime History, US Naval War College
King’s Navy: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Rise of American Sea Power, 1897-1947
24 April 2025 Roy Fenton
Labour, Legend, and Living History: Clyde ‘puffers’, 1857-2024
22 May 2025 Chris Ellmers, Docklands History Group
Reimagining the Bombay Grab: Fighting and trading across the Indian Ocean
The King’s Maritime History Seminars for 2024-25 may be attended in person or online. As always, attendance is free and open to all. To take part, you must register by visiting the KCL School of Security Studies Events page, here(www.kcl.ac.uk/security-studies/events)
Online attendees will receive instructions shortly before the event, by email, about how to join. Otherwise, we will meet in person, as usual, in the Dockrill Room, K6.07, at King’s College London. Papers will begin at 17:15 GMT.
The King’s Maritime History Seminar is hosted by the ‘Laughton Naval Unit’ and 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 () in association with the Society for Nautical Research ( https://snr.org.uk/)
For further information contact Dr Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS
