The International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network Annual Conference will be held at the University of Hull, Maritime Historical Studies Centre on 25 – 26 July. The organisers are calling for papers from postgraduates and ECRs of any discipline who incorporate any aspect of port and maritime studies. Please see here for more information: IPPMSN […]
Though historians have begun to reassess the extent of anti-German feeling in Britain in the years preceding the outbreak of the First World War, it is nevertheless interesting to take note of an incident where a Russian naval blunder became the site of Anglo-German antagonism.[1] Taking place in the thick of the Russo-Japanese War, the […]
The city of Hull, East Yorkshire enjoyed the status of ‘third port’ with a booming, world-renowned fishing industry on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914. This industry, employing many thousands of local men and women in trawling and peripheral works, was fundamentally altered by ‘total war’, as civilian fishing vessels and their men […]
