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Hindsight Perspectives for a Safer World Project
To enable historians to engage effectively with policy makers and shapers, H&P offers training and support to its members as well as to students, when funding allows.
Courses include policy engagement skills training and History in the Headlines, with senior journalists and communications professionals explaining how different forms of media operate and the various opportunities for engaging with journalists.
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Pod 3: Sea power, cyberspace and the governance of the global commons
Dr Louis Halewood and Dr Rory Hopcraft (both at Plymouth) talk to Alix Mortimer about their cross-disciplinary collaboration, fusing Louis’s work on international security, law and the development of institutions over the nineteenth and early twentieth century with Rory’s focus on the very twenty-first century concern of cyber security at sea. Finding an echo in…
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Pod 3: Sea power, cyberspace and the governance of the global commons
Dr Louis Halewood and Dr Rory Hopcraft (both at Plymouth) talk to Alix Mortimer about their cross-disciplinary collaboration, fusing Louis’s work on international security, law and the development of institutions over the nineteenth and early twentieth century with Rory’s focus on the very twenty-first century concern of cyber security at sea. Finding an echo in…
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SEMINAR: Reducing the dangers of dock work in the UK, 1899-1939
On 16 May 2023 we launched the second Hindsight Perspectives report Reducing the dangers of dock work in the UK, 1899-1939: how past approaches could prevent future tragedies, by Dr Guy Collender. We were joined by Dr Derek McGlashan, Head of Health, Wellbeing and Safety and Head of Strategic Projects at the Port of London…
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PUBLICATION: Reducing the dangers of dock work in the UK, 1899-1939: how past approaches could prevent future tragedies
In the forthcoming second report in the Hindsight Perspectives Series, Dr Guy Collender looks at the improvements made in safety over the first decades of the twentieth century and draws out lessons for what is still one of the world's most dangerous occupations
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Exploring the International Journal of Maritime History – a guide for industry
In this second post diving into the International Journal of Maritime History, we open too many tabs and suggest how industry researchers can get started with historical scholarship
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