Book launch: Gunboats, Empire, and the China Station by Dr Matthew Heaslip, 22 October 4.30pm

By Melanie Bassett on October 9, 2020 in event, notfeature

Join us online in marking the launch of Gunboats, Empire, and the China Station – a book that ‘transforms our understanding of the Royal Navy in the 1920s’.

22nd October from 4.30 to 5.30 pm. Please book via Eventbrite.

Professor Joe Maiolo (King’s College London) will open the event with a short introduction, after which the author PTUC’s Dr Matthew Heaslip (University of Portsmouth) will read a few key passages from the book before opening the floor to questions.

Click here for Bloomsbury’s page for the book

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About Melanie Bassett

Dr Melanie Bassett is a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. She manages the PTUC website and social media outputs alongside undertaking her own research on port towns. Her PhD research, 'The Royal Dockyard Worker in Edwardian England: Culture, Leisure and Empire' re-examined the concept of a monolithic imperial identity and tracked the nuances of working-class imperialism. She has worked with Professor Brad Beaven on a number of WW1 projects, including 'Mapping the National Impact of the Jutland Battle: Civic and Community Responses during the First World War' and 'Lest We Forget' in partnership with Portsmouth City Museum, which culminated in a large-scale exhibition that commemorated the ways that Portsmouth and its people experienced the War. Mel previously worked in museums and was employed at Portsmouth City Museum and the Royal Naval Museum. Follow Melanie @melanie_bassett

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