New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2015
hosted by University of Greenwich
10-11 th April 2015
Sponsored by British Commission for Maritime History, the Society for Nautical Research and the University of Greenwich
Conference Programme
Friday 10th April 2015
Hosted by National Maritime Museum
17:00 Registration at the National Maritime Museum
Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, SE10 9NF
18:00 Welcome Address by the British Commission for Maritime History
18:10 Keynote Address – Dr John McAleer (University of Southampton)
‘A constant and unreserved correspondence‘: Trade, transport and the
circulation of ideas in Britain’s maritime world’
19:00 Drinks Reception
Saturday 11th April 2015
Hosted by the University of Greenwich
08:45 Registration at University of Greenwich (QA063)
09:20 Welcome Address – University of Greenwich
Council Room (063) Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval
College, Greenwich, London, SE10 9LS
09:30 Session One: Profit, Privateering and Piracy
Chaired by: Chris Reid (University of Portsmouth)
Matthew Phillips (University of Leicester)
Piracy, profit and petitions: supplications from merchant communities to the
English crown during the Hundred Years War
Julia Leikin (University College London)
Do You Have a Flag? Prize law in Imperial Russia in the time of Catherine the
Great, 1768-1798
Robert McCabe (Maynooth University)
Maritime Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: Early Manifestations and Responses,
1960-2005
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Session Two: Slavery, Sailors and Labour
Chaired by: Valerie Burton, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Lauren Bell (University of Hull)
The business of relocating human cargo: A comparative analysis of the British
slave trade and convict transportation, 1787-1807
Louise Moon (University of Portsmouth)
‘Sons of Neptune Ashore’: Sailors in the Port of Portsmouth c.1850 – 1900
Maria Kaladeen (Independent Scholar)
Protectors of Emigrants: Indian Indenture Labourers and the Calcutta and
Madras Port Authorities in the 1850s
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Presentation of Boydell & Brewer Doctoral Prize
Steven Gray (University of Southampton)
Black Diamonds: Coal, The royal navy, and British Imperial Coaling stations, c.
1870-1914
14:00 Session Three: Science and the Sea
Chaired by: David Starkey, University of Hull
Monica Ayhens (University of Alabama)
Surgeon, Sailor, Author: The Literary World of Leonard Gillespie
Ian Johnston (Independent Scholar)
Smallpox and the Restorative Role Played by Father Thames.
Trevor Ware (University of Sussex)
The meaning of Ice. Scientific scrutiny and the visual record obtained from the
British Polar Expeditions between 1772 and 1884
15:15 Tea Break
15:45 Session Four: Navies, Nations and Nationalism
Chaired by: Sarah Palmer, University of Greenwich
Gary Chi-hung Luk (Oxford University)
The British Expedition to China and the Chinese Waterborne Trade during the
Opium War, 1840-1842
Alan Anderson (King’s College London)
Preparing for War: The Royal Navy’s Preparation for the 1899 Peace
Conference
Jerome Devitt (Trinity College, Dublin)
Reacting the Revolutionary Nationalism: Ireland and the Royal Navy 1840-70
17:00 End of Conference
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