King's Maritime History Seminars are back for 2024-2025!
All events are open to the public and free to attend both in-person and online (via Zoom). In-person spaces are limited, so register now to secure your spot!
Location: Dockrill Room (K6.07), King’s Building, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS
Dates:
Thu 26 Sep 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM BST
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
With: Prof. Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1385831?
Thu 10 Oct 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM BST
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Excellent Planning and Execution" - The Allied Navies and Victory in Normandy, 1944
With: Nick Hewitt, National Museum of the Royal Navy
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1385881?
Thu 24 Oct 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM BST
King’s Maritime History Seminars: A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies
With: George Hodgkinson, independent researcher
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1385908?
Thu 7 Nov 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: ‘The worst journey in the world’ – HMS Belfast and the Arctic Convoys
With: Robert Rumble, Imperial War Museums
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1385925?
Thu 21 Nov 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Searching for Billy Waters: Or, Black Sailors in the Regency Navy
With: Dr Mary L. Shannon, University of Roehampton
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1385959?
Thu 9 Jan 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Nelson’s Pathfinders: Hydrography and the Triumph of British Sea Power 1793-1823
With: Captain Michael Barritt, Royal Navy, Author
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386000?
Thu 23 Jan 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Staying afloat – Managing mission creep during the Navy’s intervention in the Baltic
With: Dr Matthew Heaslip, Senior Lecturer in Naval History at the University of Portsmouth
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386043?
Thu 6 Feb 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: The RNLI at Dunkirk and the Little Ships Myth
With: Dr Helen Doe, maritime historian and author, and member of the National Historic Ships UK Council of Experts
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386061?
Thu 20 Feb 2025 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: ‘In the name of God’. The journal of the voyage made to the Levant by three warships
With: Bruno Cianci, University of Genoa and Rahmi M Koç Museum (Istanbul)
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386071?
Thu 6 Mar 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM GMT
King’s Maritime History Seminars: ‘Failing to prepare for the unexpected’: British defence policy in the late Cold War
With: Dr Edward Hampshire, Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386096?
Thu 24 Apr 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM BST
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Labour, Legend, and Living History: Clyde ‘puffers’, 1857-2024
With: Dr. Roy Fenton, trustee BCMH
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386103?
Thu 22 May 2025 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM BST
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Reimagining the Bombay Grab: Fighting and trading across the Indian Ocean
With: Dr Chris Ellmers, independent researcher
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofsecuritystudies/1386133?
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