Explore our programme of seminars on maritime history and culture

Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars
Tuesday 9 December 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

The piratical seizure of the brig Cyprus

A free online talk by researcher Timothy Stone

Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Rethinking Windrush: transatlantic Indo-Caribbean experiences

Join us for a free online talk about the Indo-Caribbean Windrush Oral History Project

Tuesday 21 April 2026 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

A matter of 'good usage': towards a new interpretation of the 1797 fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore

Join us for a free online talk about the largest mutinies in the history of the Royal Navy

Tuesday 27 January 2026 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

George Charles 'Boatswain' Smith and the Wreck of Floating Chapels

Join us for a free online talk by Professor Hilary Carey

Tuesday 28 October 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

1714 and all that: The Board of Longitude reconsidered

Join us for a free online talk by Dr Richard Dunn

Tuesday 23 September 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free Entry
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

The Captain’s Tale: Mori Katsue, Osaka Shosen Kaisha, and the Japanese Gaze on Interwar Africa

Join us for a free online talk by Caird Fellow Professor Robert Fletcher

Tuesday 27 May 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars
Tuesday 22 April 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

A Quality All of Their Own: Fiji class cruisers and the solution to the Royal Navy’s cruiser conundrum

Join us for a free online talk exploring the design diplomacy of the Royal Navy's Fiji class cruiser

Tuesday 25 March 2025 | 5.15pm-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Tracks on the ocean: maritime history and the origins of cartographical lines of movement

Join us for a free online talk exploring why journeys are represented as lines on maps

 

Tuesday 25 February 2025 | 5.15pm-6.30pm
Free
Online