The Maritime Cultural landscape (MCL) is the combining of sea and land. This archaeological term, coined in the 1998 by Westerdahl, provides a framing and approach to what constitutes the maritime space or world applicable both beyond maritime archaeology and to historical analysis. Through the topic of the role of art in Victorian and Edwardian national identity, the MCL, as a framing of space and attributing of place, will be explored for future research on the deep inland interaction and influence of the maritime world.

Speaker:

David A Williams is a PhD student in the Department of History. His interests lay in the way in which we imagine nations, nationhood and national identity and the symbolic roles which visual culture plays in the conceptualisation. He has a strong interest in social maritime history and the broader ways the sea and maritime world has shaped societies and cultures.