Author Archive | Louise Moon

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CFP: Free and Unfree Workers in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (c. 1700-1850)

A call for papers has been announced for the following workshop entitled Free and Unfree Workers in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (c. 1700-1850) to be held on 6-7th  May 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh. Historians have long treated slave labor and free labor as mutually exclusive ideal types.  Recent work has begun to challenge […]

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PhD Bursaries 2015 – Come and Research With Us!

The University of Portsmouth is looking for talented potential PhD students to join us in October 2015. As a UK/EU student, you could be selected for one of 30 fully funded PhD bursary studentships, full-time, over three years. The deadline for completed applications is 4 June, 2015. The University of Portsmouth supports world-class research. In […]

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BSSH South Summer 2015 Workshop: Leisure and Coasts, Ports and Waterways

Registration is now open for the BSSH South Summer 2015 Workshop, which takes place at the University of Portsmouth on Saturday, 13th June, and is on the theme of ‘Leisure and Coasts, Ports and Waterways’. It features panels on the themes of ‘Seaside Resorts’, ‘Sports in Coastal Areas’, and ‘Leisure in Port Town Communities’, as well as a keynote […]

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Hampshire and Gallipoli Study Day 25th April

On 25 April 2015 – Anzac Day – the University of Southampton and the National Museum of the Royal Navy will mark precisely one hundred years since Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. This audacious attempt to seize Turkish fortifications and secure control of the Dardanelles proved a costly failure.  The losses sustained at […]

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Navigating Empire: Ports, Ships and Global History

Professor Jonathan Hyslop delivered a fascinating and stimulating keynote lecture for the Social History Conference delegates on the 1st April 2015 entitled ‘Navigating Empire: Ports, Ships and Global History,’ an excerpt of which is below. The lecture was a call to theorize three core elements of the maritime in connecting transnational, imperial and global histories, […]

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