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Coming soon! Routledge Maritime History of the Modern World. Publication scheduled for May 2025. For those who took Research Skills w/ Cathryn, you'll recognise her chapter. It also includes chapters by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social and Richard Blakemore among others! #MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory

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Call for submissions! Snapshots are short essays which focus on environmental challenges of the 21st century, looking to historical perspectives to inform a more sustainable world. See the attached call & send a pitch to @tluneau.bsky.social, deputy editor ([email protected]) #envhist

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In The National Archives to follow up a few references for a chapter — it’s been about 5 years since I last looked at CO records in person… nice wee sojourn and, as ever, pirates popping out the page even when it’s not what I’m looking for …

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A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!

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The main publication from our “Lessons from Lake Malawi” project has just been published OA by Marine Policy. “Without historical awareness, reproduction of one-size-fits-all approaches to fisheries management remains all too common” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🐠 #envhist #envhum 🐟

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In Which @johnfreeman.bsky.social Talks a Little Colonising Failure @wadehistory.bsky.social @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social @erikagaffney.bsky.social @ginahist.bsky.social

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This was quite the collaborative piece to tackle but led to so many enjoyable conversations and debates among wonderful colleagues. I’m so very proud of the outcome! Hoping these are conversations we can pick up again as a team in the future!

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

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Deadline for Problem of Piracy IV @uniofexeter.bsky.social (19-20 June 2025) coming up this month! Submit your paper proposals by 20 December 🏴‍☠️⛵️!

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#CFP We are excited to announce the workshop “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”, which will take place on 10-11 July 2025 in Heidelberg 📍 and invite paper proposals related to the subject of fever(s)! Spread the word!

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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: arcg.is/01PCT0 More info can here: www.colonialfisheries.com #maritimehistory

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Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. All are funded through the Charlotte Lythe Bequest to Humanities, which enables us to invest in PGT development and research excellence. Jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below 🧵👇

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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: arcg.is/01PCT0 More info can here: www.colonialfisheries.com #maritimehistory

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Very much enjoying @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social's talk Inexhaustible Seas: Fisheries Management in Scotland and the British Empire. Especially pleased to see an illustration of a Dutch haringbuis (herring-bus), which I've read about but never seen. #MaritimeHistory #Fishing #Scotland

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go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw The maritime historians starter pack is almost full! Have I missed anybody? If so, just let me know in the replies. I'll start a second starter pack if necessary. #MaritimeHistory

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Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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The list currently has 91 journals/publications/societies! 🎉 I’m adding organizations with journals here as well (as their journals lack a distinct profile here). If anyone has any suggestions, I’ll update ASAP 🙂🗃️ bsky.app/starter-pack... #skystorians #history #academic

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It's up! We now have a #CoastalHistory starter pack. People can also use and search the hashtag. If you're working on coastal history and want to be included, let me know. go.bsky.app/Pfa95p7

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Well this place has gotten busier… Sorry if I haven’t followed back yet! In the meantime, come hear me speak tomorrow 5.30pm UK at UofGlasgow as I try & condense a mere 350ish years of colonialism & fisheries law / management in c. 45 minutes! Details ⬇️ 🎣 🐠 🛶 www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-centr...

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🚨🏴‍☠️ CFP for the Problem of Piracy IV at @UniofExeter 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/2AucShDqT5vH... 🏴‍☠️🚨

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Here's me doing my best to ruin Talk Like a Pirate Day. Enjoy! Or, actually, don't ... ! www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

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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 an environmental-legal-historical research double session.

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New open access co-authored article! “Reflections on the past, present, and potential futures of knowledge hierarchies in ocean biodiversity governance research” My input focused on historical perspectives on the construction of knowledge hierarchies. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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🌍Are you a global historian who happens to be based in Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Come join the burgeoning Scottish Global History Network! 🌎 In Sept, we're hosting a capacity building event @StrathHum focused on roundtables & showcasing panels. CFP below! Feel free to DM any questions 🌏!

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Online discount code of 20% for @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social & Nathan Kwan & John Coakley's 🏴‍☠️ book from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social valid until 30th September 2024: “AUP20” The code is valid via the AUP website & the linked distributor webshops.

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🚨🏴‍☠️In case you missed it, our edited volume "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World" is out now! AND you can get 20% discount via AUP using code “AUP20” until 30 June! Please see table of contents below to entice you further! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... 🏴‍☠️🚨

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So thrilled to see this out in the wild! It has been a long time in the making and we are all so very proud of it! 🏴‍☠️ Will be dutifully keeping an eye on the post now!!

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Calling all PGRs interested in any aspect of port & maritime history! Consider applying to be PG Rep for Liverpool’s Centre for Port and Maritime History. You could lead on reviving their wonderful PGR annual conference (ippmsn.wordpress.com). But you set your own agenda! Any questions, just ask!

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A fantastic day of brilliant papers at BCMH’s New Researchers conference yesterday. Such exciting research ongoing & can’t wait to hear the future outcomes. Thank you all who came to Glasgow to share, discuss, & listen! Now taking a (thematic) breather by the harbour in Troon…

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A solid display of maritime history books (😉) from Boydell & Brewer as we enter the main day of papers of BCMH’s New Researchers conference at the University of Strathclyde!

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Next month! Can’t wait to see this out in the world 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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🚨⛵️⛴️ Programme & registration now available for BCMH New Researchers Conference 2024 @ Strathclyde. Feat. keynote Prof Alison Cathcart (Stirling) & special "meet the curator" session at new City of Empire display @ Kelvingrove Museum. Info and reg: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... ⛴️⛵️🚨

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