NEWS AND REPORTS
Student Prizes for Achievement in Maritime History
2010
South West Maritime History Society
The South West Maritime History Society, in pursuance of its charitable status remit to encourage research into maritime history in the south west, has again awarded two annual £250 research travel bursaries to the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies: this year’s bursaries were awarded at the society's AGM on 12 June 2010, to MA student Anne Pond and M.Phil student Ed Fox.
2009
South West Maritime History Society
The South West Maritime History Society, in pursuance of its charitable status remit to encourage research into maritime history in the south west, awards two annual £250 research travel bursaries to the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies. This years bursaries were awarded at the society's AGM on 6 June 2009, to MA student Joanna Thomas and M.Phil student Richard Hammond.
2008
South West Maritime History Society
The South West Maritime History Society travel bursaries were awarded at the society's AGM on 31 May 2008, to MA student George Stephenson and M.Phil student Jeremiah Dancy.
2007
The British Commission
The British Commission awards a small number of £50 prizes each year to undergraduate dissertations in the broad field of maritime history. The Commision is delighted to account that the following Univesity of Exeter sutdents have been awarded prizes in 2007:
Kelly Davis, 'The introduction and development of searchlights in the Royal Navy'
Philip Meakins, 'The English chart-making trade from 1650-1700, and its reaction to English maritime expansion'
Thomas Sheppard, 'Manpower issues in the Fleet Air Arm, 1939-1945'
South West Maritime History Society
The first two South West Maritime History Society travel bursaries were awarded at the society's AGM on 9 June 2007, to MA students Josh Newton and Britt Zerbe.
Economic History Society
Centre for Maritime Historical Studies doctoral student, Kate Hamblin, won one of
the
three prizes on offer for the best papers in the New Researchers'
session at
this year's Economic History Society Conference. 29 new researcher papers were given.
Kate's paper
was entitled ''Challenging the Old Order: exploring the rise of the
engineer in
commercial shipping in Britain, Germany and France since 1830'. She is
supervised by Nicholas Rodger and holds a School of Humanities & Social
Sciences post-graduate scholarship..
Workshops
‘International Contacts, Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances: the Caravane Maritime and its Protagonists in the Early Modern Southern Mediterranean '
Caravane Maritime is the term designating the use of Western European/ 'Christian' shipping to carry Muslim goods and passengers between ports in the Ottoman Empire, including North Africa. By extension, it can include the inter-port carrying trade in the whole Mediterranean, whether by English, Dutch, French, Venetian/Italian or 'Greek' vessels. In December 2007, the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies in association with the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Exeter and the Maritime Historical Studies Centre at the University of Hull hosted a two-day AHRC funded workshop to explore the the Caravane Maritime and its period more fully.
More information about the Caravane Maritime workshop and research can be found at the following websites:
http://www.hull.ac.uk/caravane/index.htm
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
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