Port Towns and Urban Cultures’ Dr Rob James is a project partner on a Heritage Lottery Funded bid with the Portsdown U3A (University of the Third Age). The project will establish the impact of the Battle of Jutland on the people of Portsmouth. It will identify those sailors who lost their lives at the battle […]
Port Towns and Urban Cultures’ Dr Brad Beaven (also a co-investigator for Gateways to the First World War) is on the advisory panel for a Heritage Lottery Funded bid obtained by the partnership of Portsea Parish and Fratton Big Local. The project will focus on the men listed on the war memorials in St Wilfrid’s Church, George […]
The University of Portsmouth will be hosting ‘Port City: Narrative of Migration’ as part of the 2015 Being Human Festival. Following a successful funding application, the University will host a series of free and open events, running from the 12th to the 22nd November, which will explore the themes of migration and transient culture in […]
I started this blog in October 2013. I would like to thank the Port Towns and Urban Cultures group for continuing to host it! It might be a good time to look back and consider the range of themes and topics that have come across these pages so far. There wasn’t a single, convenient web […]
Applications are invited for the twenty-third British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers in Maritime History Conference held at the University of Plymouth 15th – 16th April 2016. The conference provides a unique opportunity for emerging scholars to present their work in one of the world’s most important historic maritime settings. The Conference supports emerging […]
The Syrian refugee crisis has brought forth a broad humanitarian response and also some thoughtful pieces from historians. On the “refugee or migrant” question, Le Monde interviewed Gérard Noiriel in a conversation that harked back all the way to the sixteenth century.[1] In the Guardian, Mary Beard commented on how the Roman Empire handled borders […]
