The British Commission for Maritime History

Kings Seminars

The King’s seminars are an annual set of lectures organised by the BCMH which run from October to May. They are open to the public and are held at King’s College London.

The seminars are organised by Professor John Armstrong and Dr Alan James and are supported by the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, the Society for Nautical Research and the Maritime Information Association.

King's seminars 2011 - 2012

The seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm at King's College, London WC2R 2LS. They are held in the Meeting Room of the Department of War Studies, 6th Floor, Old Main Building

• Thursday, 13 October 2011
  Turnbull, Martin & Co and the origins of the frozen meat trade from New Zealand
  Professor Derek Oddy, University of Westminster & Dr Hugh Murphy
• Thursday, 27 October 2011
  A History of the Women’s Royal Naval Service
  Hannah Roberts, King's College London
• Thursday 10 November 2011
  Perfidious Albion or Honest Neutral? Britain’s role in the US Civil War reconsidered
  Dr Jan Lemnitzer, London School of Economics
• Thursday 24 November 2011
  Airship: design, development and disaster.
  John Swinfield, journalist and broadcaster
• Thursday 12 January 2012
  Pirates, privateers and British policy during the Spanish-American wars of independence, 1810-30
  Dr Matthew McCarthy, University of Hull
• Thursday 26 January 2012
  ‘The Shield of Neptune’: French coastal defences in the Mediterranean in the 1920s
  Dr Frédéric Saffroy, Sciences Po- Paris
• Thursday 9 February 2012
  The British anti-shipping campaign in the Mediterranean in the Second World War
  Dr Richard Hammond, University of Exeter
• Thursday 23 February 2012
  Experiencing the British Civil Wars at sea, 1642-46
  Richard Blakemore, University of Cambridge
• Thursday 8 March 2012
  A revolution in military affairs: the French Navy after the Franco-Prussian War
  Dr Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza, King's College, London
• Thursday 3 May 2012
  The withdrawal of British liner shipping from South America after the 1960s
  Dr Robert Greenhill, London Metropolitan University
• Thursday, 17 May 2012
  A voyage into the unknown: Can we really know the size of the English merchant fleet in the fourteenth century?
  Dr Craig Lambert, University of Hull

The seminar programme is sponsored by the Society for Nautical Research, the Maritime Information Association and the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.

For further information, see Kings Seminars on our Contact page.