Guy Collender

My work involves researching the complex history of port cities (industrial relations, port management, politics, trade, national and international comparisons etc), and supporting the research activities of the Centre.

I completed my PhD on the history of the Port of London (1900-1939) from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2022. I have written about the history of workplace accidents in the docks and legislation to reduce these risks (Reducing the dangers of dock work in the UK, 1899-1939: How past approaches could prevent future tragedies, Lloyd's Register Foundation, Hindsight Perspectives for a Safer World, Report 2, May 2023), and have compared London’s Great Dock Strike of 1889 with the Australian Maritime Strike of the following year ("Hands across the sea": Strikes, solidarity and diverging outcomes in port cities in Britain and Australia in the late nineteenth century, Coastal Studies & Society, Online First, 2024).