Trafalgar Festival Begins

Maritime London students will be interested in a segment that aired on NPR's Morning Edition today. The report covers the International Fleet Review held off Portsmouth on 28 June to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar and initiate ongoing festivities. NPR's coverage is refreshingly ironic about Britain's nostalgia for its glory days of naval dominion. One of the issues we will discuss over the term is the legacy of English imperialism and the politics of reenactments and commemorations of this nature, some of which we will witness this fall.

Link to NPR's Morning Edition coverage of the International Fleet Review (audio report)