Essential Information

Type Talks and tours
Location
Date and Times Wednesday 18 October | 1pm-1.30pm
Prices Free

This talk is entitled ‘Home from Home?’ and will be based on the painting Eleven o’clock in the forecastle by Henry Taylor Lamb (1940). Using this evocative painting as a starting point, this talk will discuss the often-overlooked domestic lives of men on board Royal Navy battleships.

What were the arrangements for them to eat, sleep and socialise and how did this impact their own sense of identity? Using a range of sources and personal accounts, this talk seeks to bring to life the ways in which seamen made the mighty machines of war they dwelt in a home from home.

Henry Taylor Lamb BHC1660

About the speaker

Sarah Weston is an archaeologist and historian currently undertaking a PhD with Royal Museums Greenwich and Royal Holloway, University of London. 

Image
A group of paintings on display at the Queen's House in Greenwich. The image focuses on their burnished gold frames, creating a pleasing geometric pattern on the wall

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