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

Tonight! All welcome ...

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!

Many congratulations to George Clay🥇winner of the 2025 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize, and to runners up Peter Wells & James Fox hakluyt.com🏆👏🏆👏🏆👏

Fantastic!

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 ...

Hoorah! A new book of (fab) essays with (as it happens) a gorgeous cover, in honour of Bernard Capp! Courtesy of Boydell & Brewer, Tim Harris historian and his fellow editors!

We (Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social & Jess Jonson & Justine Mann & Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social) had a fab time Time & Tide Museum sharing stories from the #Gloucester with Kick the Dust - Norfolk heritage group & learning about what young people are interested in from Great Yarmouth's maritime history. Top snacks too!😋

A HUGE shoutout to The Leverhulme Trust who kindly supported #Gloucester research for the last 4 yrs. Today our final Project Report was submitted with 🙏 for enabling Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social & Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social to explore this amazing⛵'s full career For project info: gloucestershipwreck.co.uk

ATTENTION MARITIME HISTORY FANS! The CfP for the Maritime Britain project end of project conference is now live. Check out the poster below and register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-bri…

Deadline for applications for this fantastic donor scholarship in Maritime History UEA History is 8 August 2025 - please share 📢📢📢

I've got a new article about the failed British invasion of the Netherlands in 1673 on the splendid Heart of Oak website! heart-of-oak.org/2025/07/18/the…

A really good day ... 2 chapters arrived today for Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my The Gloucester Project edited collection, to be published next year by Boydell & Brewer ... it's got 27 chapters & we'd been waiting on these, so super fab to have them ... (& just 3 more to get in!)🚌🚌

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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator theguardian.com/books/2025/aug…

Excited to start writing today my bits of the co-written Introduction, with Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social to our inaugural multidisciplinary The Gloucester Project edited collection ... Contributors' essays are fab! Out next year with Boydell & Brewer ⚓⚓⚓