A back and white photo of HMS Nigeria
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
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Battista Agnese, ‘Atlas Universalis’ (1542–52), f. 18.
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
Boat passing a headland at sunrise
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

The Cattewater Tudor wreck in Plymouth: excavation and reinterpretation of the first protected wreck in the UK

Join us online for a free talk hosted by the National Maritime Museum, part of the Maritime History and Culture series

Tuesday 17 December 2024 | 5.15pm
Free
Online
Oil painting of ships by coast
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Shadows on the Atlantic: curating new perspectives on colonial maritime history

Join us for a free online talk exploring the creation of the new 'Shadows on the Atlantic' galley at the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum

Wednesday 26 February 2025 | 5.15pm-6.30pm
Free
Online
Painting of Louis XIV
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

The Sun King at Sea: maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV's France

A free online talk hosted by the National Maritime Museum, part of the Maritime History and Culture series

22 October 2024 | 5:15pm
Free
Online
A stylish black and white photograph of a waxwork of Anne Boleyn
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

‘Some stories bear retelling. They compel retelling’: The Lives and Afterlives of Henry VIII’s Queens

A free online talk on the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition ‘Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens’

Tuesday 25 June 2024 | 5.15pm - 6.30pm
Free Entry
Online
PAD8305
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars
BHC0640
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Voyages of Discovery and Magnetism in the Age of Empire

Join us for a free talk on the hunt for magnetic north and south in the mid-1800s

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | 5.15pm - 6.30pm
Free
Online
BHC0581 - Crop
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Who Killed Liao A-ting? A Murder Case in Two Chinese Oil Paintings

Join us for a free online talk on this complicated event and its impact on Chinese-Western relations

Tuesday 13 February 2024 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
PT2006 - Crop
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars
Available online
Free
Online