BACKGROUND

The annual BNRA naval symposium at Oxford University has been running since 2002 and includes a full day of presentations of up to ten papers on a naval theme selected each year by the committee

The BNRA Oxford Naval Symposium is held in May/June each year at St Anne's College, Oxford University.  It was originally held at Rhodes House.  The symposium focuses on a different naval theme each year and includes up to ten 30 minute presentations from amateur and professional naval historians, serving officers, naval architects, curators and other individuals with a passion for naval history.  The event is held in the Mary Ogilvie lecture theatre at the college on a Saturday, with options for lunch, refreshments and an evening meal.  Past themes have included 100 years of naval aviation 'Fly Navy' in conjunction with the Royal Navy, lights, camera, naval action (the navy on visual media), the Fighting Cochranes - a naval dynasty and many others since 2002.  We range from steel navy subjects such as Dreadnoughts through the ages to in 2012, The Naval War of 1812 and Naval Intelligence in September 2013, to Damned Un English Naval Warfare in 2015, The Triumph of the Circumnavigators in 2018 and Shipwreck in 2019 and post covid  ONS22  - REVENGE - 21st May 2022.

We held our Nineteenth Oxford Naval Symposium on Saturday 13th May 2023 St Anne’s College, Oxford; Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
‘Sea to Ocean’ An historical glance at naval activity through the Middle Sea and into the Indian Ocean

THE BNRA OXFORD NAVAL SYMPOSIUM 2023