Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period. It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio-cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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The new Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth focuses on the past, present and future importance of urban-maritime cultures and communities across the globe.
The interdisciplinary Centre’s four themes are:
Construction and experience of urban-maritime cultures
Representations of urban-maritime spaces and cultures
Coastal communities and maritime heritage
Conservation of tangible and intangible heritage
Launched in October 2023, the new research Centre at the University of Portsmouth has been created from two of the University’s former research groups ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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The Norman Port by Eugene Isabey. Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-norman-port-161547
Proposals for papers are welcomed to be part of a selected anthology regarding the historic moral, religious, medical, legal, political, physiological or environmental ‘corruption’ of coastal culture in the 18th and 19th century. Entries are to make contributions to a ‘New Coastal Historiography’ and develop discussions relating to a moral geography concept.
The ‘corruption’ of the coast in the context of this anthology can extend to a plethora of meanings. For exam ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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PRDHT Chairman Dennis Miles and Hannah Prowse CEO of the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust launching the Triangle Girls project
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust (PRDHT) launched its mobile exhibition and the ‘Colin Lay education resource pack’ for the culmination of the ‘Triangle Girls’ project on 29 March 2022. The project explored women workers in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard during the First World War.
The launch was a bitter-sweet as the project lead, and originator of the idea to apply for a National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant (NLHF), Colin Lay sadly passed away after a battl ..read more
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New Researchers in Maritime History Conference at the University of Portsmouth 31 March – 1 April 2023
The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH), in association with Port Towns and Urban Cultures Research Group, University of Portsmouth, is delighted to invite you to the twenty-eighth conference for new researchers. This annual conference organised by BCMH is supported by the Society for Nautical Research.
BCMH Chair, and Port Towns and Urban Cultures member, Dr Cathryn Pearce has stated how proud she is that the New Researchers Conference is being hosted at the University of Portsmou ..read more
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Victoria Harbour with Hong Kong Island in the background, c.1862. Unknown artist.
International Conference: Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues
Date: 15-16 June 2023
Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation via the University of Portsmouth and the History Department and Modern History Research Centre at the Hong Kong Baptist University
The University of Portsmouth’s ‘Port Towns and Urban Cultures’ group and Hong Kong Baptist University kindly invite papers and contributions from their collaborators and ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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‘Crimes and Portside’ Beyond the Porthole’s next episode is now live!
Join us for this next episode of the Beyond the Porthole podcast where we discuss wrecking and smuggling, Charles Dickens and prison hulks, and dive into a wonderful interview about portside prisons with Portsmouth (UK) / Halmstad (SE) PhD student Oscar Kaarlson that includes a rather unbelievable tale involving Swedish kings, cooks and crossdressers!
Listen to the episode here: https://soundcloud.com/user-133437113/episode-2-crime-and-portside
Do you know who the receiver of the wreck is? Or what fi ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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Beyond the Porthole’s first full length episode ‘When The Ship Has Sailed’ is now live!
On this episode of Beyond the Porthole, join Daisy Turnbull, Charlotte Steffen and Suzanne Marie Taylor as they dive into aspects of maritime cultural history in this episode ‘When the Ship has Sailed’. Here they look at the histories of those who are left behind when seafarers leave town and the structure and social history of coastal and naval societies. Thinking about the less transient structures of coastal society and those that are ‘left behind’ when others take to the sea.
Link : s ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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PhD students from the University of Portsmouth, Suzanne Marie Taylor, Charlotte Steffen and Daisy Turnbull are embarking on an insightful new project looking ‘Beyond The Porthole’ at aspects of maritime and coastal history in a brand new podcast series!
This 7-part series will be diving into current themes of maritime history and talking to some amazing researchers, heritage professionals and artists about their ongoing projects – including members of the Port Towns and Urban Cultures project (PTUC). This academic podcast aims to create discussions around topics such as; port-town societ ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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On 3 February 2022 Coastal Connections, as part of the IHR’s Partnership Seminar Series, hosted ‘Coast as Muse’. The seminar asked:
What makes ‘the coast’ the subject of so many creative and literary works? “Coast as Muse” will explore the cultural significance of the coast as a provocation for art, literary work and critique. The speakers represent practices of writing, drawing, collecting and representing the many ways in which the coast has shaped our cultural consciousness.
The seminar was hosted by Port Towns and Urban Cultures’ Dr Melanie Bassett, who is a co-convenor of the ..read more
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
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Damage to Market Place and Holy Trinity Church following a Zeppelin raid in June 1915. Source: East Riding Museums Service. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
When we think of wartime bombing raids and attacks on civilians, we often conjure up images of ruined public buildings and homes during the Blitz of the Second World War. After all, this has become ‘one of the country’s most cherished and resilient national narratives’.[1] With public memories of the Blitz blending into broader evocations of national identity, the focus of these narratives has often been situated in th ..read more