Speaker: Professor Andrew Lambert 

This event marks the first public launch of the Corbett Sea Power Centre within the School of Security Studies at King’s College London. The Centre aims to link academics, policymakers, practitioners, industry, and the interested public in fostering interdisciplinary understandings of security and maritime power, including approaches from history, strategic studies, international relations, and geography.

In addition to launching the Centre, Professor Lambert will present his latest book with Yale University Press, No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One. In it, he argues for a dynamic new understanding of the nineteenth century after the fragile peace following the Napoleonic Wars. He shows how British policymakers shaped a stable European system that they could balance from offshore. Through judicious deployment of naval power against continental forces, and the defence strategy of statesmen such as the Duke of Wellington, Britain ensured that no single European state could rise to pose a threat, rebuilt its economy, and established naval and trade dominance across the globe.

This lecture is also an auspicious occasion, as it has been chosen as the 2025 annual Peter N. Davies Memorial Lecture, part of the longstanding King’s Maritime History Seminars organised by the British Commission for Maritime History and the Society for Nautical Research.

 

This event is open to the public and free to attend both in-person and online (via Zoom). In-person spaces are limited, register now to secure your spot!