Author Archive | Melanie Bassett

Liverpool Customs House, c.1849

CFP: ‘Liverpool – Music – Sea’, Liverpool John Moores University, April 2020

Liverpool John Moores University’s Institute for Literature and Cultural History, in association with the Department of Drama, are hosting a one-day multidisciplinary symposium on Thursday 30th April 2020 Liverpool is one of the great port-cities of the world. Part of the city’s cultural inheritance concerns an extremely eclectic musical history, drawing on influences from a […]

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Cutty Sark

Event: Cutty Sark 150th anniversary conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 6-7 Feb 2020

Global trade, global lives: the maritime community since the nineteenth century Thursday and Friday, 6-7 February 2020 Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2019 marked 150 years since the launch of Cutty Sark. Over her long life, the ship has formed part of Britain’s vast merchant fleet, and later provided the setting for training new […]

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Dr Mathias Seiter sharing his research into Wilhelmshaven and Kiel 'sailortowns' (photo credit: Hilde Sommerseth)

PTUC at the SHiP workshop, Ghent 2020

PTUC’s Dr Mathias Seiter and Dr Melanie Bassett were honoured to be invited to the SHiP network’s latest workshop, hosted by the University of Ghent. SHiP, or Studying the History of Health in Port Cities, is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They are led by Professor Angelique Janssens (Radboud University, the Netherlands) and […]

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POSTPONED – ‘Where Empires Collide’- book your place at the Naval Dockyards Conference 2020

***This event is postponed due the COVID-19 outbreak. Efforts to reschedule in the autumn are taking place. We will keep you informed!*** The Naval Dockyards Society have unveiled the programme for their 2020 conference, taking place at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, on 4 April. This one-day conference will examine the role and scope of […]

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CfP: Global Maritime History, ‘Maritime Languages Digital Conference’ (deadline 20 January 2020)

Global Maritime History are hosting their second online conference in April 2020. Whether through signals and semaphore or the particular terminologies of ship-board life, maritime communities have developed their own ways of communicating. Understanding or lack thereof, of these “maritime languages” could set communities apart or bring them together. This conference seeks to explore maritime […]

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