Lectures & Media

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Costume of the Royal Navy & Marines. Surgeons (uniform), National Maritime Museum, U.K.

Costume of the Royal Navy & Marines. Surgeons (uniform), National Maritime Museum, U.K.

Battle of the Saintes, April 1782 by Nicholas Pocock, National Maritime Museum, U.K.

Battle of the Saintes, April 1782 by Nicholas Pocock, National Maritime Museum, U.K.

Tattooing in the Victorian Navy

Tattooing in the Victorian Navy

 

‘That Strange and Very Ancient Custom’: Tattooists in American Sailortowns during the Nineteenth Century

North American Society for Oceanic History, Brock University, Ontario, June 2024

Maintaining French Prisoners of War in British Ports and Colonies, 1793-1815

McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2023

Hygiene, Hospitals and Health: Medical Advancements Brought on by Admiral Rodney and Gilbert Blane in the West Indies, 1779-1782

Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference | Starkville | February 2022

Equipped for War?  Royal Navy Supply Chain Failures to the West Indies in the 1790s

McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2021

Suppressing Piracy on the Frontier - Commodore David Porter and his Mosquito Fleet

North American Society for Oceanic History, University of West Florida, Pensacola, July 2021

Health of Royal Navy Sailors in the West Indies during the American Revolution 1776-1783

Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 2020

The Isolated Union Outpost – Key West, David Farragut and the Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-1865

McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2019

Commodore David Porter – A Study in Naval Leadership

National Maritime Historical Society | New Orleans | February 2018

Bahamians in Key West Industries

Bahamas Historical Society | Nassau, Bahamas | December 2018

Portable Soup to Peruvian Bark – Medicinal Trials in the Royal Navy, 1750-1800

The Health and Welfare of Seafarers Conference | University of Hull, U.K. | January 2014

Wounds & Wards – The Development of British Naval Hospitals, 1750-1815

Navy & Nation Conference | National Maritime Museum, U.K. | July 2013

Defying Conformity – Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Navy

University of Exeter Center for Maritime Historical Studies | Exeter U.K. | September 2010

Commissioners vs. Captains – Who Really Altered the Course of Naval Medicine?

The Burthen of the Mortal Body: Life, Death, Sickness and Health in the Early Modern Period | University of Exeter U.K. | August 2010

The Operations of the Trinity House Ballast Office in the Late 18th Century

Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Thames Symposium | Museum in Docklands, London U.K. | 2009