1295: The Year of the Galleys - Dr Ian Friel FSA

This lecture is about an extraordinary set of English shipbuilding accounts dating from the 1290s, when the ports of London, Southampton, Ipswich, York, Newcastle and other places constructed eight war galleys for King Edward I. These accounts are the earliest-known significant English shipbuilding records, but they also have a wider historical importance, offering a unique ’snapshot’ of late 13th-century England. The lecture will consider the maritime aspects of the project, but will also show what the m