Centre of Port and Maritime History events

CPMH runs a series of events throughout the year. Highlighted events are listed in brief below. Please click on the link or select from the drop-down menu boxes below for further information, including, venue, time and how to join us.

Scheduled events 2023 and 2024

7 and 8 September 2023: Annual Conference

18 October 2023: CPMH Hybrid Seminar, Gillian O'Brien (LJMU)

Scheduled events 2022 and 2023

15 and 16 September: Annual Conference

12 October: Seminar: Michael Bennedsen Hansen (Copenhagen Business School)

2 November: Peter N Davies Seminar: Morten Tinning (Copenhagen Business School)

22 November: Seminar: Jayne Friend (University of Portsmouth)

13 January 2023: Musical Drama Production (LJMU Drama Students supported by CPMH and in conjunction with Western Approaches HQ Museum)

Blowing a Raspberry at Hitler’ - The story of the search for a way to defeat the U-Boats terrorising the Atlantic during World War Two – a search led by the women involved in the Western Approaches Tactical unit.
2pm and 6:30pm LJMU John Foster Drama Studio

Register for free tickets

23 March 2023: History Pub Talk '"Hostage Capitalism”: Liverpool, Shanghai and the Blue Funnel Line in the 1960s’, Nick White (LJMU)

Spring 2023: (Date TBC) Exhibition Launch: Captain Morgan Archive

20 May 2023: Battle of the Atlantic 80, Conference.

24 May 2023: Mike Stammers Memorial Lecture: Dr Jo Stanley, (Senior Visiting Research Fellow, LJMU)

26-28 May 2023: Battle of the Atlantic 80: A weekend of events across Merseyside to mark the 80th anniversary. Further details will be announced in Spring 2023.

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Peter N. Davies Seminar

Conferences

Mike Stammers Memorial Lecture

Seminars and talks