The Rowlands Castle u3a have arranged a talk by Philip MacDougall on Monday 15th April at 2pm at the Parish Hall. The details are below. Non-members are welcome to attend for fee of £2. We hope that you will come and enjoy this talk. Website: philipmacdougall.tilda.ws/ Chips, Strong Beer and Low Pay – building ships for the navy Supported by Power Point this is a talk focussing on those who worked in the government naval dockyards – once the largest employer of civilian labour in the world. Portsmouth, alone, was employing over 4,000 by the end of the Napoleonic Wars with Chatham, Plymouth and the London yards not far behind. In Victorian times the yards were employing nearer 50,000 with this talk looking at both the type of work undertaken, the nature of the relationship existing between the Admiralty and the workforce as well as the everyday family life (both officers and men) of those employed.
Philip MacDougall is a much published historian who specialises in those favilities thsat supported navies of the 18th century but especially the British. Ottoman and Russian naviers. Philip’s talk will be loosely based on three of his books, Portsmouth Dockyard Through Time (2017), Royal Dockyards (1980) and The Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond (2002). Rowlands Castle u3a Sent from Outlook for iOS<aka.ms/o0ukef> _______________________________________________ Grapevine mailing list: info@rowlandscastle.com
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