Said it before but Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648 (Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean) is one of my favourite books on the Thirty Years' War & 17th century Scottish military #history. A must read for those interested in that period.

Update for anyone working with #historical documents in #Dutch: The Amsterdam City Archives Stadsarchief Amsterdam recently released a new public "super" model for 17th-century notarial documents, based on a whopping 11,783 scans. Try it out 👇 readcoop.eu/model/notarial…

Very exciting news! Looking forward to yet more great reads in the Mariner's Mirror (and will be emailing you myself shortly Jack Abernethy!)

BOOK INCOMING 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤝🇸🇪 Tell your friends, tell your adversaries, tell your casual acquaintances. Tell the historians of Sweden, tell the historians of Britain. ….and definitely tell the Dutch shorturl.at/kJMSU

Anyone working on pirates and privateering is going to find the The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 records a goldmine once they’re published online! ⚓️ 🏴‍☠️ 🌊

🏴‍☠️ The Problem of Piracy III Conference Programme is now available! Take a look at all of the fantastic research ongoing in the vibrant field of maritime predation. Our two fully virtual panels are also open to participation of those who could not make it to New Orleans. 🏴‍☠️

Nieuw op de website: scans van documenten uit de periode 1572-1573. #opstand #geboortevannederland westfriesarchief.nl/nieuws/1705-co…

⚓️ #OnThisDay in 1588 ⚓️ The Spanish Armada set sail for England. 🔊 Listen to The Mariner's Mirror Podcast episode on the lost maps of the Spanish Armada here: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m… 📺 Also, check out the YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=e2QkyU…

Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records ... From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/mil…

Watch to the end to see yours truly (literally) moonlighting as a fiddler instead of a historian! Get in touch and book the Kilrymont Ceilidh Band for all of your indoor and outdoor ceilidh needs 😎

For the small number of people who might be interested in priests squabbling about Jesuit curriculum and its use for the Catholic mission in Scotland, my recent article on the subject is now available! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Happy to announce my review of Adam Marks' important book 'England and the Thirty Years' War' has been published with @BritJnlMilHist (@BritJnlMilHist.bsky.social), available here with open access: bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/view/1…

CFP deadline next week! 🚨🚢⚓️🛶⛵️

Delighted to say that my review of War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch conflict, 1652–89 is available to read in the latest volume of The Mariner's Mirror, alongwith a whole host of other wonderful articles and reviews! doi.org/10.1080/002533…

🚨🚨Annales Braudel Internship The journal is looking for an Anglophone graduate student, familiar with the #humanities and the social sciences, and interested in the #editorial work of scholarly journals.📚

Very pleased to learn that the RDS Jack Medal from IASSL IASSL has been awarded to Jamie Reid Baxter's article on Esther Inglis as Franco-Jacobean poet, published in Studies in Scottish Literature 48.2. Just in time for Esther Inglis 2024

A book review I wrote of the late David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment has just now gone to print with Society for Nautical Research and the Mariner's Mirror! Feel free to check it out here📚: tandfonline.com/eprint/PB9HYVU…

Delighted to say that my latest article has just been published in the Mariner's Mirror Society for Nautical Research. It's about pirates, fish, and seafarers - and how they all fit together as part of a wider Atlantic 'political ecology' in the early 17th century. doi.org/10.1080/002533…