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Congratulations to Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social and Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social on further recognition of their brilliant maritime history project #gloucester1682

Thank you EHR & Jan Ruger for selecting my The Gloucester Project article in 'Celebrating the 600th English Historical Review' as 'an important influence on their own thinking ... or on their fields of scholarship' - honoured to be in such company! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

Huzzah! After much huffing & puffing, I have finally finished a 1st draft of my The Gloucester Project essay for our forthcoming edited collection with Boydell & Brewer ... co-editor Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social drafted his ages ago, so I'm tardy✍️... off to celebrate (& only read thru again 2moro!)

Two Shardlake' s Norwich tours to start 2025 - Saturday 18 January at 10am and Tuesday 21 January at 1.30pm. The tour celebrates CJ Sansom's Tombland and looks at the story of Kett's Rebellion (1549). Booking and more info via pauldicksontours.co.uk/events #Norwich #walkingtour

Nice to catch up with Sir Charles Scarburgh this week at Barber-Surgeons' Hall ... he was on the Gloucester in 1682 & survived by clinging to the wreckage & allegedly ousting DoY's 🐶 Mumper from it to survive ... here he is (in red) in 1651, delivering an anatomy lesson 🔪💀

I will be speaking in Holt as part of The Holt Society’s series of talks on 14 February 2025. Doors open at 6.30pm and I will be talking about ‘The Gloucester Across the Globe: Cromwell’s Warship, 1654–60’. More information here theholtsociety.org/events-activit…

Shameful ranking for Charles King and Martyr!

Portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Winston Churchill's ancestor & hero, given to him by Lord Saltoun 15 Feb 1942; the painting dates to late c17 or early c18 & is now restored ... John Churchill was on Gloucester when it wrecked in 1682 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today! Lovely🌞 for a trip to Great Yarmouth!

Fancy a friday night in beautiful Cromer? I'm talking about the wreck of the Gloucester in 1682 on Friday 21 March, at 7.30pm to the Friends of Cromer Museum - details here federation-norfolk.co.uk/diary.html All welcome! Norfolk Museums The Gloucester Project

Wonderful (despite it being wet) day yesterday exploring Great Yarmouth with our colleagues from Computing Sciences for an exciting Gloucester opportunity 🌊 🌧️ ⛵️

Built c 1670, this elegant barge, located in the Victory Gallery at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, originally served as a state vessel for King Charles II. The barge’s most significant moment came in 1806, when it carried the coffin of Admiral Lord Nelson along the River Thames for his funeral.

Always look up… this ship is at the end of Trinity Almhouses on Mile End Road..built 1695 to provide housing for “28 decay’d Masters & Commanders of Ships”. The original marble 42-gun Stuart warships are in Museum London ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 Kate - Short For Bob ✨️

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History at UEA History starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of UEA alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓ For details & eligibility see: The Dominic Christian Maritime History Scholarship - UEA uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and… Apply by 2/5/2025

Just over a week to aply for the Dominic Christian Maritime History MA Scholarship in UEA History at UEA uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and… Deadline 2/5/2025

This includes my first monograph The English and French Navies, 1500-1650 at 60% off!

Delighted that #Shipwrecks made it to BBC History Magazine's '25 things we've learnt over the past 25 years' article celebrating quarter-centenary of the mag! With shout-out to #gloucesterwreck

📢FAO UEA students We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in UEA History in 2025 Value £10k - if of interest, get in touch! uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and…

With a shout out to The Gloucester Project ...

NEW Hailed as the 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks', a wreck off the coast of Colombia has been theorised to be the lost San José Galleon. The results of a non-invasive study of coins from the wreck are published today in Antiquity, so here's an #AntiquityThread on the findings 1/13 🧵