‘The Departing Sailor’ – The Sailor’s Tear and the emotional Jack-Tar

Name: ‘The Departing Sailor’ – The Sailor’s Tear and the emotional Jack-Tar
Start: 2026-10-28T19:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-28T20:45:00.000Z
Location: Harriet Delph Room at Abney Park

When

Wednesday

19:00 – 20:45

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Harriet Delph Room at Abney Park

Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

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A lecture explores the departing sailor as a cultural ideal of masculinity and the social attitudes around sensitivity and sexuality in Georgian and Victorian Britain.

Alessandra Curtis explores the figure of the departing Jack Tar in Georgian and Victorian culture. The lecture considers how stories of sailors expressed contemporary ideas about masculinity and emotion.