Conference Programme Saturday 9 June 2012
Chaired by Dr Ann Coats, Naval Dockyards Society
9:30am ARRIVE AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF BERMUDA
9.45am WELCOME FROM DIRECTOR & KEYNOTE PAPER
Dr Edward Harris: Making a National Museum in Bermuda Dockyard
10:30am MORNING COFFEE
Coffee, tea and morning pastries etc.
11am-12:30pm PAPERS plus questions
Dr Adrian Webb: The defence of Bermuda: a maritime and cartographic perspective, 1770-1900
Dr Clarence Maxwell: The West End and Maritime Revolutions: George’s Bay before the Establishment of the Royal Naval Dockyard
12:30-1:30pm LUNCH
Buffet style on Upper Verandah
1:30-3:15pm PAPERS plus questions
Andrew Bermingham: American POWs in the War of 1812: from Bermuda to Dartmoor
John McNish Weiss: ‘Averse to any kind of controull’: American refugees from slavery building the new Royal Naval Dockyard at Bermuda
Read by Susan Lumas
Professor John Tunbridge: The US and Bermuda: from foe to friend?
3.15-3:30pm CONCLUDING REMARKS
Dr Ann Coats invites further questions & closes the conference
3:30pm AFTERNOON TEA AND DOCKYARD TOUR
Led by Dr. Edward Harris with full afternoon tea at the Dockyard Pastry Shop
