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Thomas Falcon Marshall, 'Emigration - the parting day' (1852).  Art Gallery of South Australia

CFP: Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World (Grenoble, 15-16 February 2018)

  In close collaboration with Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) is organizing an international conference on seas and oceans in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. This conference will examine how seas and oceans have shaped and reshaped cultural identities, spurred stories of reunion and separation and redefined entire nations. […]

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Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest,  c. 1667. Greenwich Museums. Public domain.

Major conference to mark 350th anniversary of Dutch attack on Chatham and the Medway, Amsterdam 23–24 June 2017

The Vrienden van de Witt (NL) and the Naval Dockyards Society (UK)[1] announce a major international conference to be held in on 23–24 June 2017, commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Dutch attack on Chatham Dockyard and the River Medway. This action, which culminated in the capture of the flagship Royal Charles, has traditionally been […]

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Maritime Masculinities conference – book now

Registration is open for the Maritime Masculinities conference which takes place at St Anne’s College Oxford on the 19th and 20th December.   Maritime Masculinities covers the period from 1815 – 1940, which saw the demise of the sail ship, the rise of steam and oil-powered ships, the erosion of British naval and maritime supremacy […]

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