Excited to start writing today my bits of the co-written Introduction, with @benjaminredding.bsky.social, to our inaugural multidisciplinary #Gloucesterwreck edited collection ... Contributors' essays are fab! Out next year with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ⚓⚓⚓

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

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... #maritimehistory

A HUGE shoutout to @leverhulme.ac.uk who kindly supported #Gloucester research for the last 4 yrs. Today our final Project Report was submitted with 🙏 for enabling @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I to explore the full career this extraordinary ⛵ For project info: www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk

We (@benjaminredding.bsky.social Jess Jonson Justine Mann & moi) had a fab time @timetidemuseum.bsky.social sharing stories from the #Gloucester with @kickthedust.bsky.social heritage group & learning about what young people are interested in from Great Yarmouth's maritime history. Top snacks too!😋

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

Catch me tonight talking all things #Gloucesterwreck to Elmswell History Group at 7.30pm www.elmswell-history.org.uk Looking forward to going over the border to sunny Suffolk! All welcome! #EastAnglia ⚓ #maritimehistory

Great to see contracts issued to contributors by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my edited collection The Wreck of the Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, supported by funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk & @britishacademy.bsky.social ... out in 2026 🤞

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓ For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX Apply by 2/5/2025.

Recognise this one @clairejowitt.bsky.social - spotted in King’s Lynn

My colleague @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social and I are delighted to invite applications for a PhD studentship funded by ESRC @sgsss.bsky.social, collaborating partner Scottish Civic Trust. #history #slavery #Glasgow Full details below. #skystorians #PhDsky #academicsky www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

Lovely Great Yarmouth beach yesterday even on a wet day! www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk folk @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi on the jetty with UEA Computer Scientists doing fieldwork for a new maritime heritage Gloucester project (& we had chips too!)

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 www.theholtsociety.org/events-activ...

I am stunned and delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize. Thank you to @frenchhistory.bsky.social, and to everyone who helped to make the book a reality! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️

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

The tree is up in the Redding household. Featuring this beauty from last year’s Gloucester exhibition ⚓️🌊🎄

Congratulations to @clairejowitt.bsky.social and @benjaminredding.bsky.social on further recognition of their brilliant maritime history project #gloucester1682

Today, after much prevarication & face pulling, I am finally starting to write my chapter for a co-edited 📖 with @benjaminredding.bsky.social on Gloucester wreck 1682 contracted to boydellandbrewer.com .... back at sea with royal physician Dr Scarburgh ... huzza! huzza! huzza! #amwriting 🌊🩺🩸

Call for Papers! The British Commission for #MaritimeHistory will hold their 30th annual New Researchers conference at Hull in April 2025. It has THE BEST supportive environment for new scholars (also including independent) I've ever been to. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/c...

Hey historians! Any recommendations for readings on passes being issued to foreign sailors by English governors in the 17th century Caribbean? Not privateering licenses but passes to allow a foreign (in this case Spanish) sailor to leave an island (in this case Nevis). Please and thank you! 🗃️

The Gloucester Project is shortlisted for @timeshighered.bsky.social award of 'Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences' & the good folk at Campus asked us to share our story in the run-up to the award ceremony this week 🤞⚓️🤞🌊🤞 www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/shari...

Not sure those outside the university sector in the UK know how bad things have gotten and how much worse they promise to get. So far no indication from the government that they have any interest in halting the collapse.

Fantastic sale on now @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social with 60% off hardbacks. This includes my monograph The English and French Navies, 1500-1650!

Found this photo of the wonderful paper theatre created when filming content with @clairejowitt.bsky.social for the Gloucester exhibition last year. You can also see some close up shots of it in a video created to showcase the animation created by Eye Film for the exhibition. #history

If you missed The Last Voyage of the Gloucester exhibition in 2023, co-curated by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi with Norfolk Museums Service, here's a film made by Eye Film to give a salty flavour of the wreck's importance & how to support research about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsJ...

The maritime historians starter pack is coming along nicely – do let me know if you want to be added! #MaritimeHistory 🗃️

First post and blue sky ahead. My open access article 'The Western Design Revised: Death, Dissent, and Discontent on the Gloucester, 1654–1656' is 11 views away from 1500. Read it here www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory