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Call for Papers - Naval Dockyards Society 30th Annual Conference

Posted: Saturday 11th October 2025

Call for Papers - Naval Dockyards Society 30th Annual Conference

Event date: 28 March 2026 

Location: National Maritime Museum Greenwich 

Aftermath of the 1956 Suez crisis: Global Ramifications and Reflections for Dockyards and Shipyards

What immediate challenges were faced? What long-term impacts resonate today?

 

The Suez Crisis 1956
Writing a decade after the Suez crisis, one contemporary politician dismissed the affair as merely ‘the dying convulsion of the British Empire'.* This view is still widely held today, but how authentic is that interpretation in hindsight?

How did the Suez crisis redefine Britain’s international identity and economic profile and its relationship with former colonies and ongoing allies? And how did it influence attitudes among Britain’s allies, including France and Israel, who had taken part, and the United States who had forced an early end to the action?
Critically, for this conference, how did the Suez aftermath and its often bitter recriminations shape future British naval policy on home and overseas dockyards and shipyards and their communities?

Conference themes will include:

  • Overview of how the Suez crisis shaped subsequent British and Allied naval strategy and deployment in the Cold War
  • Political, local, social and economic effects of Suez on dockyards and shipyards globally
  • Global strategic threats and opportunities arising from Suez
  • Suez accelerated the global power shift from Britain to the United States – evidence?

Please send your proposal for a talk of c.30 minutes. Naval Dockyards Society (NDS) require a title, a 300-word synopsis and a 100-word biography by 15 December 2025 or earlier. N.B. The proposal should present original research.
 
Read the full call for proposals here. 

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