Annual Scottish Maritime History Conference 2025

Posted: Friday 10th October 2025

Event date: 21-22 October 2025

Location: Glasgow

 

21 October - Evening Lecture

Yudowitz Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical School,

University of Glasgow, University Avenue

5.30pm - 7.30pm       Dr Robb Robinson, University of Hull

Virtual Viola: electronically salvaging the career of the world’s oldest steam trawler

 

22 October Conference Programme

Moir Dyer Room, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow

10.25    Introductory remarks, Dr Martin Bellamy, Glasgow Life Museums

10.30   Session 1 -  Chair: Professor Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow

 Elizabeth Allen, The Tall Ship

The Amazon, the Booth Line, a Scottish romance and a tourist ‘Boom’

 Dr Lloyd Belton, University of Glasgow

‘To Trade Freely with All’: Mediating the Kru Labour Crisis in Early Colonial West Africa

11.30   Tea/Coffee

12.00   Session 2, Chair: Professor Niall McKenzie, Strathclyde Business School

Dr David Morgan-Owen, University of St Andrews

Shipping and the state in First World War Britain: between the national and the global

Dr Roy Fenton, British Commission for Maritime History

Coaling the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow: A Nightmare for Jellicoe and Grangemouth

1.00     Sandwich Lunch

2.00      Session 3 Chair - Professor Andrew Perchard, University of Otago

Dr Catherine Scheybeler, King’s College London

A Chief Surveyor’s Inspection of Scottish Iron Shipbuilding, 1847

Dr Nina Baker, Independent engineering historian

‘Human spiders spin and spin’: The Scottish ropemaking industry in transition from the age of sail to the age of steam

3.00      Tea/Coffee

3.30      Session 4 - Chair: Professor Alan McKinlay, Newcastle Business School

Michael Leek

The Battle of Trafalgar, Interpretations through Art; 220 years on

Professor Bruce Peter, Glasgow School of Art

Ferry Chartering: A Stena Concept, 1965-2025

4.35      Closing Remarks, Professor Hugh Murphy, University of Glasgow, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

 

Bookings

For the Annual Scottish Maritime History lecture contact: christopher.miller@glasgow.ac.uk 

For the conference contact: martin.bellamy@snr.org.uk

Download Conference programme. 

 

This conference is kindly sponsored by the British Commission for Maritime History, Glasgow Life, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, The Lind Foundation and the Society for Nautical Research.