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Booking now open - Maritime History from the Margins

Posted: Friday 4th September 2026

Booking now open - Maritime History from the Margins

Event date: 11-12 November 2026

Location: National Maritime Musuem, Greenwich

Organisers: RMG & CPCMC

 

Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth are co-convening this two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised histories in maritime contexts from c.1500 to the present day. 

The conference will highlight new research and perspectives on communities and individuals historically underrepresented in maritime narratives. 

Maritime history has long been shaped by narratives centred on political, military, and economic power. Yet, the oceans have always been populated and impacted by maritime communities that were historically marginalised, or people whose maritime lives and labour remain overlooked or underrepresented in archives, collections, and scholarship.

This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring those histories to the forefront: the workers, makers, families, travellers, navigators, communities, and knowledge-keepers who have lived and worked at the edges of visibility within maritime histories.   

Find out more: Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present | Royal Museums Greenwich