2 October 2025 Andrew Livsey, King’s College London
Sea Power Thought in the Cold War
16 October 2025 Ben Redding, University of East Anglia
1650s and 60s, Officer Radicalism in the English navy
30 October 2025 Asif Shakoor, Independent Scholar & Georgie Wemyss, University of East London
‘Unearthing Invisible Seafaring Histories of Empire’: Title to be Confirmed
13 November 2025 Alex Clarke, Independent Naval Historian & Founding Member of ShipShape
Procurement for Peace
27 November 2025 Synnøve Marie Kvam, Project S/S Wanja & M/V Mim
S/S Wanja and M/V Mim: the Ships that Changed Strategies in the North Atlantic early in WWII
The Proctor Memorial Lecture: to be held at Lloyds Register
11 December 2025 Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, University of Iceland
“We won!” The Cod Wars and the confessions of a historian who became head of state
Registration for the Proctor Lecture on the 11th of December 2025 is to be done via the BCMH website Lectures & Events : British Commission for Maritime History
The King’s Maritime History Seminars for 2025-26 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, KIN 628, 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 (www.maritimehistory.org.uk) in association with the Society for Nautical Research (https://snr.org.uk/). For further information contact Dr Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS (alan.2.james@kcl.ac.uk).
