5th Symposium on Thames Shipbuilding
and Thames-build ships - 18th February 2012
The Docklands History Group is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the above Symposium, which is to be held at the Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay, London E14, on Saturday 18th February, 2012. The Museum, which has extensive displays on Thames shipbuilding, was also the venue for the previous Symposium, held in 2009.
The day promises to be a first rate event, which will appeal to a very wide range of interests. The agreed list of speakers and subjects are listed below:
- Damian Goodburn - The Archaeology of Medieval Shipbuilding, Three Quays, by the Tower;
- Gustav Milne – Foreshore Archaeology, Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing;
- Rodney Brown – The Mystery of the Shipwrights;
- Chris Ellmers – Gordon & Co., Deptford – Discovering a Lost London Shipyard;
- Pieter van der Merwe – Artists and the Thames Shipyards;
- Richard Hugh Perks – Sailing Barge Building on the Thames;
- Professor Andrew Lambert – John Scott Russell and HMS Warrior;
- Mary Mills – Maudslay, Sons & Field and their Greenwich Shipyard;
- James Wisdom – The Social and Economic Impact of the Closure of Thornycroft’s Yard, Chiswick.
The Symposium will be jointly chaired by Professor Sarah Palmer and Professor Andrew Lambert.
Click here to download the Symposium Programme (pdf file).
The registration fee for the day’s activities will be £30.00 per person (£25.00 for members of the Docklands History Group). The fee will include refreshments, but not lunch.
Early booking for the Symposium is highly recommended.
To register an interest in attending, and to receive further information and booking details, please email your contact details to info@docklandshistorygroup.org.uk.
