Hugh Murphy, Honorary Professor

Hugh Murphy, Honorary Professor

Room 121, Lilybank House
Tel:  (0)141 330 6890
E-mail   Christine.Leslie@glasgow.ac.uk

Hugh Murphy is an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, Visiting Reader in Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and a former Editor of The Mariner's Mirror, the International Journal of the Society of Nautical Research.  He is a previous winner of The Anderson Medal for Research in Maritime History.  His research specialism is the British shipbuilding industry and he is the co-author with Lewis Johnman of British Shipbuilding and the State since 1918: A Political Economy of Decline (University of Liverpool Press, 2002) and Scott Lithgow: Deja Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company (University of Liverpool Press, 2005).  With David J. Starkey, Beyond Shipping and Shipbuilding: Britain’s Ancillary Maritime Interests in the Twentieth Century (University of Hull Press, 2007).  With Derek J. Oddy, Mirror of the Seas: A Centenary History of the Society for Nautical Research (London, 2010).  With Anthony Slaven, Crossing the Bar: An Oral History of the British Shipbuilding, Ship Repairing and Marine Engine Building Industries in the Age of Decline, 1956-1990 (University of Liverpool Press, 2013), with Marcel van der Linden and Raquel Varela, Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World: Case Studies, 1950-2010 (University of Amsterdam, University of Chicago Press, 2017).  He has written several chapters in books and numerous articles on shipbuilding history, primarily in the Twentieth Century.