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There's a little article in the Guardian about someone's slight obsession with the Historic wreck of the #Londonwreck1665. However, it couldn't have happened without all of the team's effort and the supporters of the Save The London 1665 campaign. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Had a new paper published in Area RGS-IBG Higher Ed yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my marvelous Archive colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Coming this Saturday, 30th November... The Battle Of Agincourt: Animated Episode

An account of rum imported into New York city from the French and Dutch colonies in the Americas, Lady Day 1727 - Lady Day 1729

Our #shipoftheday is the Cygnet, master Charles Swan, of 140 tons

Lovely write up of an amazing recent discovery - one of the largest coin hoards of the reign of Nero from the whole Roman Empire, found in the heart of Worcestershire! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This includes a fully funded PhD to work on Anglo-Saxon charter single sheets with Julia Crick and me. Please spread the word, and hmu if you have any qs!

It's not quite the Starship Enterprise, but we do have a Captain James Kirk, Master of the Sea Nimph, a London ship of 100 tons and a crew of 11, sailing into London from Livorno in August 1725

An exciting (& slightly scary) day for the Maritime Britain team University of Southampton History Department. We've received c. 1 million merchant ship voyages (1565-1765) from our work on the E 190 Port Books (stored The National Archives) using our HTR training. Now all we've got to do is curate the data...

What a milestone. using AI to get circa 1 million ship-voyages from the port books! Great work Team! x.com/maritimebritai…

Clearly some shipmasters had an affiliation with their ship's name. When John Chapman, master of the Francis of London, lost his ship in 1723 off Antigua he clearly did not think it an ill-omen; 2yrs later he was sailing into London from Antigua in a new ship: the Francis!

Tired of hearing Catherine of Aragon being described as 'the first wife' or the 'sour, bitter, abandoned woman'? Tomorrow at 9am you can hear Maria Hayward, Lucy Wooding and I discuss different aspects of this remarkable queen's life in In Our Time with bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Nice to see another project reaching maturity boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651504/…

El 2 de agosto formaré parte del Study Day de "The Armada Festival" que tendrá lugar en Southampton. Mi charla irá en torno a la visión que tenemos en España sobre el episodio de la Armada Invencible de 1588. 🌊⛵️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 El festival tendrá lugar entre el 2 y el 7 de agosto +Info:

As part of our Maritime Britain_AHRC (1565-1765) project, we've been working with a group of local actors who will be helping bring some of our research alive this summer across Southampton. See link below. drive.google.com/file/d/19w9cql…

The Maritime Britain_AHRC (1565-1765) team are in Dover for the soft launch of our sister project: Maritime Kent!

Dr Lucy Huggins Maritime Britain_AHRC (1565-1765) speaking at our History research seminar today about this great project