Register now for New Researchers in Maritime History 2025
Posted: Wednesday 19th March 2025
Event Date: 11-12 April
Location: Hull History Centre
The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH), in association with the University of Hull, is delighted to invite you for the thirtieth conference for New Researchers. This annual event organised by BCMH is supported by the Society for Nautical Research.
The conference will be held in Hull, a port-city that ranked as the third busiest commercial port in Britain, and one of Europe’s largest fishing harbours. Today, as well as continuing to engage in various sea-related activities, Hull is leveraging its significant maritime heritage, through the refurbishment of six historic sites and two preserved ships, to market itself as Yorkshire’s Maritime City. It therefore provides an inspiring location for a conference that focuses on the maritime dimensions of history.
Registration now open!
Please complete the Eventbrite form to Register your place and purchase your tickets here:
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Ticket sales commence at 15:00 on 18/03 and close at 17:00 on 08/04
[Price is £35 Full, £30 Student, £0 free for presenters + this year's prize winners - all attendees need to Register using Eventbrite]
Conference Programme
Friday 11 April
From 14:30 & 15:30 free guided tours of Hull's maritime hertiage with accredited tour guide Dr Sam Wright.
16:45-17:30 Registration, Hull History Centre
17:30 Welcome: Prof. Richard Harding (Vice-Chair, British Commission for Maritime History)
17:45: Keynote Lecture: Robb Robinson (University of Hull) - 'Interrogating a Ghost Ship of Grytviken.’
19:30: Evening - Conference Dinner at The Minerva, Nelson Street (not included in ticket price)
Saturday 12 April
8:30 – 9:15: Registration
9:15: Conference Organisers Welcome, Dr Martin Wilcox (University of Hull)
9:30 – 10:45 SESSION ONE: MARITIME SPACE
Peter Wells (University of East Anglia), ‘“No Land Nor Ice in the Way”: Captain John Wood’s 1676 Search for the North-east Passage’.
Saanika Patnaik (Ashoka University), ‘Expelling Pirates, Acquiring Sovereignty: The East India Company at Malvan, 1765-1812’.
Matilda Sidel (University of Oxford), ‘Customary law of the sea seen through literature: 'Naufragios' and troubles at the coastline of Spanish America’.
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15 -12.30 SESSION TWO: MARITIME HISTORIES FROM BELOW
Eliška Bujkova (University of New Brunswick), ‘Bodies of labour and labouring bodies: colonial structures of care and bodywork in the British Atlantic c 1650 c 1780’.
Kit Barton (University of Exeter), ‘Reconstructing the World of the British Sailmakers; 1688-1714’.
Hannah Bradbury-Crowther (University of Plymouth), ‘Examining the role of female contractors at Plymouth Dock, 1692-1763’.
12.30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 Presentation of awards
13:45 to 14.45 SESSION THREE: NEW NAVAL HISTORIES
Kieron Hoyle (Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘The Maison Dieu and the Narrow Seas’.
Dave Brooks (University of Hull), ‘Patronage and Capability in the British Royal Navy 1815-1870’.
Paul O’Donnell (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘The Vegetarian Dreadnought: the ship that was built for Liberals’.
14.45 to 15.15 Tea
15.15 to 16.30 SESSION FOUR: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE NATIONAL
Jason Mazzocchi (Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘Faversham’s Maritime Community and Oyster Disputes in late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Kent’
Tom Gayton (University of Exeter), ‘Paid “like drops of blood”: Popular Allegiance in Dorset’s Ports in the Early Seventeenth Century’
Sophia Bella Chapple, Johannes Rom Dahl, Cianna Devitt (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Marine Resource Use During Times of Adversity: A Mixed Methodological Approach to Studying 17th Century Scottish Adaptation’
16.30: Closing remarks
16.45: Conference ends
Find out more about New Researchers in Maritime History Conferences here: New Researchers in Maritime History Conference
