Remember that the CFP deadline for the Scottish Global History Network event @ University of Strathclyde is 12 August! Still time to submit!

“Pirates: Behind the Legends” begins airing in the UK tonight on National Geographic … Look out for future weeks when it gets to the 17th / 18th centuries 👀

Currently in Oulu for my first time attending #wceh2024. Come join me at a roundtable on Wed afternoon on regimes to 'optimise nature' in the mid-20th c. or on Thurs morn when I'm presenting on colonial law & fisheries management for the environmental-legal-historical session.

Cracking series (and not only because I'm in the John Ward episode 🤣) - see you are in here too David Wilson ! m.imdb.com/title/tt323791…

International Talk Like a Pirate Day? We've been doing it all wrong scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Here's me doing my best to ruin Talk Like a Pirate Day via The Scotsman. Enjoy!

Very much looking forward to the workshop and particularly this fantastic roundtable! I’ll be speaking, as ever these days, on law and fish!

💡Just published! The need to address #knowledgehierarchies in ocean #biodiversity governance & research: tinyurl.com/4f9aarja 🗞️Read more in our latest #newsletter: lnkd.in/eHMAeCr9 #sciencepolicy #exclusion #indigenousknowledge #globalgovernance #oceanpractices

🚨🏴‍☠️ CFP for the Problem of Piracy IV at University of Exeter on 19-20 June 2025. Papers welcome on any aspect of piracy or maritime predation occurring across the world from the ancient to the modern. Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024 Proposal form: forms.gle/2AucShDqT5vHK5… 🏴‍☠️🚨

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New from Empire Podcast- BLACKBEARD & THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN In which anita anand & I ask: what is the actual historical basis behind these much mythologised figures?

Pictures of the wood #fishweirs aka #Hadhra (traditional fishing traps) at city of #Manama located on shore at Bu Maher Fort,#Bahrain.Hadhra utilize the tides and currents, which push the fish into the net walls of the structures. 1/3

Tomorrow! Come see me try and condense a mere 400 years of colonialism and fisheries law and management in c. 45 minutes! Details ⬇️ 🎣 🐠 🛶

Pleased to share the latest StoryMap from the Lessons from Lake Malawi project, focusing on the history of fisheries management at Mbenji Island, inc. interviews and speeches from the closing ceremony in Dec 2022. View the StoryMap here: arcg.is/01PCT0

Problem of Piracy IV CFP deadline this week! 🏴‍☠️🚨

‼️🐠 Our short “History Matters” piece — “Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi” just published OA in The Journal of African History! doi.org/10.1017/S00218… A lengthier piece coming soon in Isis… 🐠‼️

🚨🏴‍☠️ Performing, practising, and policing piracy! The 4th Problem of Piracy conference takes place in Exeter later this month. But next week we have THREE special virtual panels, open to all on 12 and 13 June. Details & registration link via: problemofpiracy.com/conference-2025 🏴‍☠️🚨

It was a real privilege to be asked to chat about our OA article on fisheries in Lake Malawi for the JAH podcast 🐟. Thank you Ayodeji Adegbite for hosting! Link below — check it out and let me know what you think! 👇

Join us at the Scottish Fisheries Museum The Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther and online on 14 August as we launch our pop-up exhibition based on our Lessons from Lake Malawi project! 🐠🐟 Event co-hosted by Scotland Malawi Partnership scotland-malawipartnership.org/events/lessons…

Or you can also join us for our launch event in Blantyre at David Livingstone Birthplace on 12 August from 14:30-16:30 where the pop-up exhibition will also be displayed in August and September! scotland-malawipartnership.org/events/lessons…