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Discuss-a-Doc: Warships as Slop Shops

Though British warships relied on a constant supply of slops and other items from Britain, these ships could themselves act as make-shift tenders, bringing food and clothing to iso[...]

02 Mar 2020

Tag 18th century, 19th Century, Archives, Atlantic World, Clothing, Empire, maritime history, Royal Navy

Book Review: Adler “Neptune’s Laboratory”

Antony Adler, Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 256 pages. $39.95USD. By Nicholas Allen The terrace door[...]

24 Feb 2020

Tag 19th Century, 20th Century, Book Review, Empire, Environmental History, Global History, history of science, literature, maritime history, Ocean

The Many Faces of Tudor England: Diversity Aboard the Mary Rose

The Many Faces of Tudor England: Diversity Aboard the Mary Rose February 18, 2020 Sometime in the late afternoon of 19 July 1545, the Mary Rose, one of Henry VIII’s largest s[...]

30 Jan 2020

Tag Lectures, maritime history, Royal Museums Greenwich, Tudor and Stuart Navy

CFP: 41st Annual Music of the Sea Symposium at Mystic Seaport Museum

Music of the Sea Symposium at Mystic Seaport Museum Mystic Seaport Museum is hosting the 41st Annual Music of the Sea Symposium. The symposium occurs on Friday, June 12 and Saturda[...]

23 Jan 2020

Tag CFP, maritime cultures, maritime history, Maritime Museums, Music

Proposal for changes to the captain's uniform, 1812

Discuss-a-doc: Promiscuous Letters and Naval Uniforms

Letters that the Royal Navy could not categorize as from admirals, officers, important navy boards, or other important people were sorted in “promiscuous” boxes and wha[...]

26 Nov 2019

Tag 19th Century, Archives, Clothing, maritime history, Meaghan Walker, National Archives, National Maritime Museum, Royal Navy, Uniforms

The Craft of Writing History

Event type: Conferences & study days Date and time: 30 November 2019 | 9.30am Admission: Ticketed Price: £30 | £25 concessions Location: National Maritime Museum, Lecture Theat[...]

21 Oct 2019

Tag Aaron Jaffer, Andrew Lambert, Boydell & Brewer, British Commission for Maritime History, Helen Doe, James Davey, Margarette Lincoln, maritime history, National Maritime Museum, Peter Sowden, Royal Museums Greenwich

CFP: International Postgraduate Port and Maritime History Conference

CFP: International Postgraduate Port and Maritime History Conference Studying the history of port cities and their relationship to maritime endeavour and enterprise is a diverse an[...]

17 Oct 2019

Tag CFPs, conferences, maritime culture, maritime history, Museums, Naval, Port Cities

“Boredom and the British Empire” Lecture

Attend a free talk in central London with Dr. Jeffrey Auerbach (California State University Northridge) as he offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyd[...]

26 Sep 2019

Tag British History, Empire, Event, Lectures, maritime history, Maritime History Seminars, Sailors

Call for papers: Beloved Enemy – United Kingdom and Spain in the 18th century

Throughout the eighteenth century, relations between Spain and the United Kingdom were both complex and tense. Its territorial losses in the Indies and on the Iberian Peninsula its[...]

26 Sep 2019

Tag 18th century, Diplomatic History, Enemies, International Relations, maritime history, Spain, United Kingdom

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2020

The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH), in association with the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust in Kent, England, invites contributions to its twenty-sixth conference f[...]

23 Sep 2019

Tag CFP, conferences, Dockyards, emerging scholars, maritime history