🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Delighted to receive my author copy for this fabulous volume. It is such an honour to feature in this Festschrift celebrating the outstanding work and career of Anne Curry, who was my PhD supervisor, alongside so many fine contributors.

My name is Rob and I am the founder of Protect the Wild. And it has now been 9 years since I started what was then Keep The Ban back in 2015! In just over a month I will be taking on my hardest challenge yet, running a marathon for the wild! Specifically the Richmond Marathon on

View from window

Join us on Thursday 5th December for our annual Dymond Lecture! We will be joined by Professors Craig Lambert and John McAleer, who will discuss English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities. Find out more: ow.ly/5Wi050SE3vW #WeAreLocalHistory

The work our inter Amber did for the project features in Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute Bulletin. Amber placed all the East India Company voyages from 1600-1770 into our project database. We'll geo-spatially map this for our website Maritime Britain_AHRC (1565-1765)). southampton.ac.uk/smmi/news/2024…

Very excited to be giving the annual Brixworth lecture this year (on Saturday 2 November), which will be about Offa of Mercia. All welcome to attend: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/north…

Tragic shipwreck off Dorset granted special status bbc.in/3yBceJU

Today's Guardian includes an obituary of the historian of global slavery, Trevor Burnard. Trevor's untimely death is a great loss for the profession and students and colleagues History@Hull and Wilberforce Institute theguardian.com/books/2024/aug…

#shipoftheday This has to be our new favourite vessel name, a 2-ton cockboat in Faversham, Kent, in 1580 called the 'Cowe tourde' (Cow Turd)!

Our #shipoftheday is the Paradise of Dunkirk, master Jaques Bosage, sailing from London to Dunkirk on 9 December 1620. The ship carried 'for the Archduke of Austria' (Ferdinand II, HRE) 1 long dressed Kentish cloth

The #shipoftheday today is the Happy Returne, which was wrecked off Padstow in Cornwall in August 1703, on its way back to England from Carolina. 400 weight of logwood was salvaged from the wreck.

A bonus #shipoftheday is the Nightingale of Bristol (22 tons), sailing from Bristol to Penryn on 20 March 1575. She carried 3 tuns of lead for Francis Drake of Plymouth.

#shipoftheday the 250 ton Hercules of London, sailing into the capital from Tripoli on 11 April 1588. Her cargo was unloaded over several days. For Sir Edward Osborne, Richard Staps et al, this included cinnamon, nutmeg, indigo, cloves, pepper, cotton, cloth, and Turkish carpets

Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way) - grad employment rates and the highest starting salaries are spread between STEM and Humanities, languages amongst most attractive and sought after skills… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#shipoftheday The Anne of Douglas (Isle of Man), master Thomas Banks. She sailed into Carlisle from Newry in Ireland with forty-one barrels of white herrings on 23 February 1708

Our #shipoftheday is the unfortunate Chandos (likely an East India vessel) commanded by Thomas Gilbert. She left Portsmouth bound for Bombay on 21 March 1720, but was lost off the Cape of Good Hope

🌊🌍 It's publication day! ⛵️⛴️ profilebooks.com/work/tracks-on… Profile Books

We've been working with a street theatre company (Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre). The actors have made short videos based on the characters we have uncovered in the sources we use, and other famous people who visited Southampton: maritimebritain.org/english_mercha… Maritime Britain_AHRC (1565-1765)

Coming out next spring (and will be open access when it does)! Many thanks to the contributors and to Brepols for all the hard work that has gone into it.

Our #shipoftheday is the 300 ton, 30 gun, Robinhood of London, of whom the master was 'D. Littel John'. 45 English mariners and 15 foreign, heading towards Madeira