‘City of Creoles: West Indian Absentees and the Re-imagining of Later Georgian London’ Dr Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester This paper examines the ways in which the influx of absentee planters and their families from Britain’s West Indian colonies reshaped the urban development and elite society of London from the conclusion of the Seven Years’ […]
Promote your events via PTUC! If you have a Port Town, Urban, Maritime or Naval-themed event, we can include it on our website. Please contact PTUC@port.ac.uk with the details. See below for some of the events that may be of interest to you! 2018 April 5th-6th Apr – ‘Healthy or Unhealthy Cities?’, Urban […]
One-day seminar to reveal 100 years of women in the Royal Navy To mark the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), a one-day conference on Saturday 25 November explores the contribution women have made to the Royal Navy. In 1917 the WRNS motto was ‘Never at Sea’. Since then much […]
Promote your events via PTUC! If you have a Port Town, Urban, Maritime or Naval-themed event, we can include it on our website. Please contact PTUC@port.ac.uk with the details. See below for some of the events that may be of interest to you! February 6th February – Navigating the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean: A […]
