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Tag Archives: Greenwich Maritime Centre

A Very Palpable Hit: the State of Maritime Historical Research Conference 2017

Posted by J D Davies on 11/09/2017 in Heritage preservation, Historical research, Historical sources, Maritime history, Naval history, Uncategorized

Greenwich, 0900, Saturday 9 September: will anybody actually come? will the speakers be any good? will the technology work? is this, the first conference that the Society for Nautical Research has ever staged under its own auspices, going to be a success? Greenwich, 1745, Saturday 9 September: yes, they did; yes, they were; yes, it […]

Sea, the Conference

Posted by J D Davies on 20/03/2017 in Historical research, History teaching, Maritime history, Naval history

This blog has often touched on the subject of ‘sea blindness’ in modern Britain, notably here, and I also took that as the theme of the keynote lecture I delivered to last year’s conference for new researchers in maritime history. One important element of this discussion is the state of maritime history research in the […]