I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Folks ... get ready ... tomorrow is the start of NEGRONI WEEK 2025 AND Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800 ed @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner will be published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ... these things must be connected ... 🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸

This gorgeous boy - now aged 16 - had his annual check-up yesterday with the vetinary! Lots of prodding & poking, but a pretty clean bill of health for a mature gent! Huzzah! Now sleeping-in to recover ... 🐶🩺

Many congratulations to @medievalmariner.bsky.social & John Mcaleer & team for a fantastic launch event last night to AHRC funded Maritime Britain website ... so many ships, mariners & cargo ... bravo!👏👏👏🥂

Kicking off #maritimebritain conference with @clairejowitt.bsky.social speaking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682

1st keynote! @plymprivateer.bsky.social on Women & British Warships in the c17 ... huzzah! 👭⚓️👭⚓️👭

& we're off! 1st paper at #maritimebritain conference on maritime predation in the narrow seas from Dr Robert Blakemore & a forthcoming book! 🏴‍☠️⚓️

Delighted to be at the Maritime Britain conference in Southampton this week with some great sounding papers @clairejowitt.bsky.social

Even lovely in the British drizzle ... but still NO 🦦 #hols

Beautiful evening lakeside ... hoping for a visit from the resident 🦦 #hols

Final few days to sign up for this event at the National Maritime Museum next Friday/Saturday (day tickets available). Fantastic range of speakers and subjects including some great emerging scholars. Join in for what will be a fascinating conversation

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner, the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Worrying long term hidden fiscal drag The family income threshold at which English students maintenance loans start to get reduced is just £25,000/yr. It has been this level since the 2008/2009 academic year. We have had 64% (CPI) inflation since then. So it's been slashed hugely in real terms

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE! Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard. 25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS TODAY!! 📝

I will be celebrating tonight with a (small) 🍷 the 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of moving to #Norfolk ... Beautiful county with big skies & always 🌞 ... huzzah!

Bank Holiday reading in the sun! Lovely .... 📖 😎

Last few days to register your interest in the Maritime Britain End of Project Conference - deadline for proposals to speak is 1/9/25 ⚓⚓⚓ eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... & conference organiser @medievalmariner.bsky.social is now here!

A date for your diary: 9 October 2025, 6.30pm-7.45pm EGR Taylor lecture: lightning at sea in the 18th and 19th centuries - Dr Sara Caputo www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

We have WALLABIES in BUNGAY! Yay! Will keep my 👀 peeled!🦘🦘🦘 #Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Friday night snorto-de-luxe .... gd wkend All 🍹

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 ⚓⚓⚓

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

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Lovely to see the latest book in the series! Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 looks great! Congrats to the editors Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, & Henrique Leitão & all the contributors 👏👏👏 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

British warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The first review of my book (in The Idler) describes it as 'an excellent, all-encompassing read'. Last day for this 25% pre-order discount today!

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Nipple-covered sea creatures and aquariums filled with tears – Sea Inside’s alternative perspective on oceans in crisis theconversation.com/nipple-cover...

Deadline for applications for @ueahistory.bsky.social Maritime History MA scholarship is *LESS THAN TWO WEEKS* Pls apply by 8/8/25 & see further details re. eligibility www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓⚓ What a student thought about studying for an Early Modern MA here: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

1st melon at Jowitt Towers ... so heavy it fell off the plant 🍈

Gorgeous morning scrambling about on Dunwich Heath! Perfect East Anglian 🌞

Counting down to the publication of TWO fantastic new books this summer: Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 - out 6/8/25 Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - out 22/9/25 Pre-order them now! aup.nl/en/series/ma...

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!)🚌🚌

Looking forward to a day of 'wherry time' with chums on Hathor, the Egyptian wherrry, built in 1905 to commemorate Alan Colman, who had sailed on a dahabeah called 'Hathor' on the Nile ... #Norfolk 🌞⛵🥂

A key debate in academic publishing: 'Editors stage mass resignation after academic publisher sold'

Deadline for applications for this fantastic donor scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social is 8 August 2025 - please share 📢📢📢

!!! #bayeux www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.

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

Made a small pilgrimmage today to Spike Milligan's grave to enjoy his last joke, 'See I told you I was ill' inscribed in Gaelic on the headstone, St Thomas's churchyard, Winchelsea #goonbutnotforgotten