Undergraduate Open Day - Saturday 27 September Our open days are designed to give you a taste of Plymouth, connect you with passionate staff, and help you feel confident with your choice of course. Book your place now 👇 www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/open-d...

Our @plymuni.bsky.social colleague Dr Darren Aoki is making the news with his research into Japanese Canadians - Read the full story here: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

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

Free history talk: 'The Liberation Line – The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings' by Christian Wolmer on 7 Oct 2025 at 19.00 @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social Full details & booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-libera...

I’m speaking about women and the Rn at the South West Maritime History society’s even in Calstick on 20 September- all welcome

One phone call, and the rest is history @plymuni.bsky.social History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...

In exciting news I’m being promoted to Professor of Maritime History @plymuni.bsky.social on 1 August. Some maritime rubber ducks seemed best suited to here

Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social

CONFERENCE ALERT! Excited to be part of this @movedapart.bsky.social Early Modern Global Separation conference at Lund University, 20-21 August movedapart.org/events/

Can you spot who is moving in our Friday Fun animation of the Quadraille @plymuni.bsky.social

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

Great to visit Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth on a lovely sunny evening to talk about Women and the Royal Navy

Our undergraduate Open Day is approaching, so why not join us to discover the University of Plymouth? 🙌 Explore our city campus, discuss courses, talk to your future lecturers, and get a flavour of our wonderful city. Book your place here 👇 www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/open-d...

I know it’s been out for a bit but my copy of From the Margins to the Centre in 17th Century England arrived today and looks fabulous and wilful some essays I can’t wait to dive into @angelamcshane.bsky.social

Delighted to be speaking at Bowlines in Exeter today about my research into Women and the Sea

Bring your gullfriends to the profit-sharing arts festival, Gullfest. Workshops will feature collograph printmaking, creative writing, gull movement, gull vocal, collage and tarot reading. 📅 May 30 - June 1 Find out more 👇 www.instagram.com/gullfestplym...

Gotta love our old library book plate and some cancelled stamps from the 1980s @plymuni.bsky.social

Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk

Manuscript for my new book with Sue Broomhall on Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England is finally completed….

We were delighted to have Dr Lucy Huggins speaking about the English Merchant Shipping and Trade from the Armada to the Seven Years War, c.1588-1765 project at our @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social history research seminar yesterday - the database is going to be amazing #maritimehistory

Such a fantastic and welcoming weekend! Thank you for having us all 👏

If you are in Plymouth on Wed 21 May at 16.00 do join us for our @plymuni.bsky.social History Research Seminar when Dr Lucy Huggins (University of Southampton) will speak on 'English Merchant Shipping, Maritime Communities, and Trade from the Spanish Armada to the Seven Years War'

Calling all University of Plymouth students! Fancy some extra cash this summer? 💰 Santander Universities is offering 10 x £1,000 Brighter Futures Grants to help fund your education and support your wellbeing. Apply by May 15, 2025 👉 ow.ly/txaJ50VHLTy

@paulinakewes.bsky.social lovely to meet you

My collaborative project on the history of separation in 16th/17th Europe and East Asia with Lisa Hellman, Svante Norrhem and Sue Broomhall has moved with me to BlueSky: @movedapart.bsky.social We are currently without followers. Please do follow for updates.

From our back catalogue of seminars connected on the theme of early modern separation: watch Merry Weisner Hanks talk on gender and intersectionality in relation to global history, within the framework of the Moved Apart project. youtu.be/WK4PkWXJRPY?...

Had great fun recording this podcast on Economic Warfare with my friend and colleague @andrewlivsey.bsky.social for the Marriner’s Mirror and @rnssc.bsky.social series: Seapower Past and Present. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1Za0...

New article on ‘Epistolary Technologies of Separation and Archives of Emotion’ in Notions of Privacy in EM Correspondence just released to the world! And it’s open access: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1...

It was our final year @plymuni.bsky.social History BBQ this week and the sun shone and the Reservoir Dogs came for a visit as well