In August 1927, nearly 50,000 people flocked to Portsmouth to attend the first Navy Week. Showcasing the power and prestige of the Royal Navy, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, mine-laying monitors, submarines, and an aircraft carrier were all either on view or available for close inspection. Attendees saw HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson, the two most modern […]
An illustrated talk about the secret Royal and Merchant Navy past. By Dr Jo Stanley, co-author of Hello Sailor!The hidden history of homosexuality at sea, and co-curator of the Hello Sailor! exhibition, Merseyside Maritime Museum. https://prideinplymouth.org.uk/queer-seas/
Dr Rob James, from the Port Towns and Urban Cultures project team, will be delivering a paper entitled, “If there’s one man that I admire, that man’s a British tar”: The Navy, Identity and Leisure in Early-Twentieth Century Britain,” at the Greenwich Maritime Institute on Wednesday the 6th of November, 2013. The paper analyses popular […]
