History graduate wins Prize for Undergraduate Achievement in Maritime History 2022

Posted on 25 October 2022

History graduate, Andy Marris wins one of the Undergraduate Achievement in Maritime History 2022 Prizes.

Andy won the prize for their dissertation ‘That great sheet-anchor of our hope’: Naval Patriotism, Representation and Commemoration, 1800-1840.

The British Commission awards a small number of prizes each year recognising excellence in undergraduate dissertations in the broad field of maritime history. The Commission’s aims are to encourage students to pursue maritime questions in their final year research, and to reward the best of that work.

Subjects eligible for consideration reflect the Commission’s view of maritime history as a wide-ranging discipline. It includes topics such as shipping, seafaring, ports, seapower, maritime labour, coastal communities, trade, exploration, shipbuilding, navigation, and fishing, and embraces a wide range of political, economic, social, technological and cultural approaches.

The Department of History would like to congratulate Andy with this amazing achievement.