British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

9.00

Registration

Morning sessions chaired by Professor N A M Rodger, FBA, Professor of Naval History, University of Exeter

9.30

Introduction
Dr Holger Hoock, Lecturer in British Cultural History, University of Liverpool

9.45

Marking Time
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, Department of History, King's College, University of London

Reflections on why we mark time in the ways we do and what that might mean for the practice of history, and for public history in particular

10.45

1805/6: Official and Popular Commemoration
Dr Colin White, National Maritime Museum

11.30

Tea and Coffee

12.00

The Trafalgar Centenary in Britain, France and Spain
Dr Bertrand Taithe, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, University of Manchester

1.00

Lunch

Afternoon sessions chaired by Rev'd Professor John Morrill, FBA, Selwyn College, Cambridge

2.00

The Trafalgar Festival 2005: Academic and Public History
Dr Mark Connelly, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent at Canterbury

3.00

Tea and Coffee

3.30

Round Table

Exhibitions: Dr Margarette Lincoln, Director for Collections, National Maritime Museum
Events: Dr Colin White, National Maritime Museum
History Teaching: Eric Evans, Professor of Social History, Lancaster University, and Chair of Examiners, History, Edexcel
Nelson and the Navy: N. A. M. Rodger, FBA, Professor of Naval History, University of Exeter
Broadcasting: Christopher Lee
SeaBritain: Deidre Livingstone, Head of Project SeaBritain (tbc)

4.15

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