Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
The Legal Quays: Sir William Paulet, First Marquis of Winchester Sir William Paulet (c.1483-1572) is perhaps unique in his long...
Protecting London - Digging up old London This lecture explores the challenges in uncovering the origins and...
An Engine of Commerce? Steam Technology and Global Maritime Trade, 1860-1910: Studies in success and failure The rapid growth in world trade in the 19th century...
Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
Health on the ocean waves: The sea-doctor afloat and in port A lecture by Professor Allan Chapman, University of Oxford
The Dutch East Indies Company - The Second 100 Years This second lecture will focus on the VOC's second hundred...
The Dutch East Indies Company - The First 100 Years A series of two lectures. Dr Thomas Crump moved to...