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 […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
***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 […]
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 […]
