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 […]
Last week I attended the annual Social History Society conference held at the University of Portsmouth. It was my first Social History Society conference, and I was particularly lucky to have the opportunity to present a paper on sailors and naval pageantry alongside my PTUC colleagues Daniel Swan and Chris Spackman on the first panel […]
The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, School of Social, Historical & Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, seeks to appoint a research-active historian with a specialism in any aspect of the history of the Royal Navy and its global presence between 1660 and 1900. The postholder will take a central role in creating […]
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, […]
Port Towns & Urban Culture’s Dr Karl Bell will be holding an event exploring Portsmouth’s ghosts and legends on the 22nd April 2015 at the atmospheric Square Tower, Old Portsmouth. With spooky stories and local legends told by a professional storyteller, the event is guaranteed to forever change how you think about ol’ Pompey! The […]
The annual Social History Conference, the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK, will this year be held at the University of Portsmouth from 31st March to 2nd April 2015, with a plethora of stimulating and interesting papers, panels and roundtables, including contributions from the Port Towns and Urban Cultures project and colleagues […]
