2 October 2025 Andrew Livsey, King’s College London Sea Power Thought in the Cold War 16 October 2025 Ben Redding, University of East Anglia 1650s and 60s, Officer Radicalism in the English navy 30 October 2025 Asif Shakoor, Independent Scholar & Georgie Wemyss, University of East London ‘Unearthing Invisible Seafaring Histories of Empire’: Title to be Confirmed 13 November 2025 Alex Clarke, Independent Naval Historian & Founding Member of ShipShape Procurement for Peace 27 November 2025 Synnøve Marie Kvam, Project S/S Wanja & M/V Mim S/S Wanja and M/V Mim: the Ships that Changed Strategies in the North Atlantic early in WWII The Proctor Memorial Lecture: to be held at Lloyds Register 11 December 2025 Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, University of Iceland “We won!” The Cod Wars and the confessions of a historian who became head of state Registration for the Proctor Lecture on the 11th of December 2025 is to be done via the BCMH website Lectures & Events : British Commission for Maritime History The King’s Maritime History Seminars for 2025-26 may be attended in person or online. As always, attendance is free and open to all. To take part, you must register by visiting the KCL School of Security Studies Events page, here: www.kcl.ac.uk/security-studies/events.   Online attendees will receive instructions shortly before the event, by email, about how to join. Otherwise, we will meet in person, as usual, in the Dockrill Room, KIN 628, at King’s College London. Papers will begin at 17:15 GMT. The King’s Maritime History Seminar is hosted by the ‘Laughton Naval Unit’ and the ‘Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War’ in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. It is organised by the British Commission for Maritime History (www.maritimehistory.org.uk) in association with the Society for Nautical Research (https://snr.org.uk/). For further information contact Dr Alan James, War Studies, KCL, WC2R 2LS ([email protected]).

The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.

Crown estate owns seabed of treacherous sandbank off Kent that has entombed more than 2,000 shipwrecks