The British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2018
Brunel Institute, SS Great Britain, Bristol
Friday 6 April – Saturday 7 April 2018
Friday 6th April
14.00 Tour of Brunel Institute
17:00 Registration and refreshments
18:00 Welcome: Dr Cathryn Pearce, Chairman, British Commission for Maritime History
Rhian Tritton, Director of Interpretation, Collections and Education and Deputy CEO, SS Great Britain Trust
18: 15: Imogen Dickens, (SS Great Britain) “Global Stories, The People of the SS Great Britain. A Public Engagement Project”
18:30 Keynote lecture: “Steam Strategy and Screw Propellers”
Professor Andrew Lambert
Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London
19:30-21:30 Reception and buffet supper on board ss Great Britain
Saturday 7th April
9.00 Registration
13:30-13:45 Prize winners presentations
9.30-10.45 Session One:
Introduction: Dr Helen Doe, Vice Chairman, British Commission for Maritime History
Mark Barton (King’s College London) “The Patriotic Fund at Lloyds 1803 to 1809 – Rewarding zeal or influencing the Navy?”
Alison Baxter (Oxford Brookes University) “A most useful class of men’: The life of a ship’s engineer in 19th century”
Melanie Holihead (University of Oxford) “Enlightened self-interest, unintended consequence: Strategic development and street-level impact of the Royal Navy allotment”
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15 -12.30 Session Two:-
Joe Davey (University of Portsmouth) “The Maritime/Urban Interface in a Port City Bristol 1850-1914”
Leanna Brinkley (University of Southampton) “Elizabeth’s Hidden Merchants: Coastal trading in Bristol, Hull and Southampton”
Nicholas Guoth (Australian National University) “Distance tamed: Negotiating information uncertainty in international maritime transactions during the mid to late nineteenth century.”
12.30-13:30 Lunch
14.00 to 15.15 Session Three:
Anna McKay (University of Leicester) “Food, Inglorious Food: The Diet and Discontent of Prisoners of War on board HMPS Brave, 1808-1815”
Kelsey Power (King’s College London) “Honour and Prisoners of War: Framing Narratives of Masculinity in Napoleonic Wars”
Sonia Grant (Independent) “African and Arab Merchant Seamen Interned in Germany during the Great War”
15.15 to 15.45 Tea
15.45 to 17.00 Session Four:
John Bolt (University of Portsmouth) “The Cinderella Service: the changing Navy and the Royal Marine experience, 1856 – 1924”
Matthew Heaslip (University of Exeter) “International naval cooperation in interwar East Asia”
Samantha Middleton-Sudbury (University of Portsmouth) “The professionalisation of the Royal Navy between 1660 and 1688”
17:00 Closing Remarks: Professor Richard Harding, Vice Chairman, British Commission for Maritime History
