{"id":2718,"date":"2026-08-25T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/?mec-events=goodliff-awards-presentation-and-talk-samuel-pepys-and-charles-iis-navy"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:19:31","slug":"goodliff-awards-presentation-and-talk-samuel-pepys-and-charles-iis-navy","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/?mec-events=goodliff-awards-presentation-and-talk-samuel-pepys-and-charles-iis-navy","title":{"rendered":"GOODLIFF AWARDS PRESENTATION AND TALK: SAMUEL PEPYS AND CHARLES II&#8217;s NAVY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GOODLIFF AWARDS PRESENTATION EVENING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again, an amazing variety of projects are being recognsed covering popular and academic subjects, spanning m,any centuries, types of history that cover the length and breadth of Huntingdonjshire.&nbsp; Come alonmg to hear about and see the successful projects and congratulate the applicants. Our President Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, will present the Goodliff Awards for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, <strong>Dr David Davies,<\/strong> Naval Historian, whose 2009 book &#8216;Pepys&#8217;s Navy&#8217; which received the Samuel Pepys Award and Latham Medal, will give us a talk entitled:<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8216;Samuel Pepys and Charles II Navy&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is well to remember that the naval association of the Montagu family did not begin with the 4th Earl as Lord of the Admiralty, but it was as a naval general that Edward Monagu made his mark during the period of the Commonwealth. Nevertheless, he did manage to change tack to the Royalist Cause and was responsible to returning the monarch Charles II to UK shores, receiving the thanks of Charles II in the form of the Earldom of Sandwich. A lesser beneficiary was Montagu&#8217;s faithful servant and distant relative, Samuel Pepys, who was made Clerk of the Acts of the Navy Office, a department that b ecame his life&#8217;s work as is well recorded in his infamous diary and public records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The evening is open to non members, we just ask for a small donation of \u00a33 to help offset the cost of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, join us in some light refreshments and the chance to meet the candidates who received a Goodliff Award, our members and to learn more about the Society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOODLIFF AWARDS PRESENTATION EVENING Once again, an amazing variety of projects are being recognsed covering popular and academic subjects, spanning m,any centuries, types of history that cover the length and breadth of Huntingdonjshire.&nbsp; Come alonmg to hear about and see the successful projects and congratulate the applicants. Our President Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[],"mec_category":[42,35],"class_list":["post-2718","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-society-event","mec_category-society-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huntslhs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmec_category&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}