When your 'small scale local history' project comes across this guy *George Waymouth* from Cockington sent to colonise Virginia in 1605. Today I am tracing the wills of the Waymouth mariners in Devon and found some international links to the Elizabethan New World sailors.

Very happy to share that I will be your tour guide of Exeter's early modern history at the RAMM if you attend the Early Modern Conflict, War and violence conference in September. You have until May 22nd to submit your abstracts.

I had a wonderful time at the SWAAN workshop last week presenting my current work on early modern women's participation in the Newfoundland fishing trade in Devon. I cannot wait to hear more about the work that comes from this network with both historical and modern maritime women.

The call for paper deadline for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World conference at the University of Exeter is fast approaching. You have until May 22nd to submit your abstracts. Keynotes: Dr Elaine Murphy (University of Plymouth) and Prof. Andrew Hopper (University of Oxford)

We’re delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our upcoming conference, Prof. Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) @plymprivateer.bsky.social, who will deliver a paper on how 17c sailors and their wives navigated wartime separation ⚓ Please see our full CfP below, and send your abstracts by 22 May!

We’re delighted to announce the first keynote speaker for our upcoming conference: Prof. Andrew Hopper (Oxford), who will be speaking on his forthcoming book 'Widowhood and Bereavement in the English Civil Wars'. The conference will be held on 2-3 Sept in Exeter. Email us your abstracts by 22 May!

Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer. If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! ⬇️

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

I'm excited to share the Call for Papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World conference is here. This year's theme is 'Beyond the Battlefield' encouraging a vast array of interdisciplinary discussion about these themes from various social viewpoints. Please do share.

A memorable weekend in Greenwich speaking at the National Maritime Museum for the 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference'. It was fantastic to hear the latest maritime historical research extending globally, questioning identity, imperialism and ideas of Britishness within the last 200 years.