“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
I just signed a contract with Routledge to publish my second book, titled, Authority and Disruption in Early Modern Maritime Theatre: Mock Kings at Sea. It will be the first comparative study on maritime theatre across multiple cultures and languages.
I’m sure that crews still participate, secretly or publicly, and the ceremony has also been part of modern cruise ship culture. Royal Museums Greenwich has some great images of crossings past and present. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...
Yes! I’ll be focusing on early pre-1800 crossings, and one that influenced the more well-known Neptune festivals! There was also cross-dressing in some early iterations that I researched.
I just signed a contract with Routledge to publish my second book, titled, Authority and Disruption in Early Modern Maritime Theatre: Mock Kings at Sea. It will be the first comparative study on maritime theatre across multiple cultures and languages.
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My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...
#earlymodern #Tudors
My new book has arrived already. On sale from Thurs 19 Feb.
You may want to help charity by ordering it it via the Marine Society: lnkd.in/eR8_Nr9D. 😊
17th century shipwreck uncovered by winter storms
Ancient timbers found on Dorset beach are believed to belong to a historic merchant vessel
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...
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Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Looking forward to giving a talk at the Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 11th February (4:30-6:30pm). They’ll be getting a sneak preview of some of the work I’ve been doing recently for my book… ⚓️🎶 #seashanties #maritimehistory
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I'm stumped. I know of a Thomas Lupo, who joined Queen Elizabeth's violin consort in 1588, but I haven't come across a Thomas Gardner. Sorry!
Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians
Here:
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
Renee Nicole Good was 37 - A U.S. citizen - and a poet — her wife watched her be murdered and is now a single parent to a 6 year old
This regime has been defined by the endless tragedies it’s caused — we owe it to the victims to fight for the accountability they 💯 percent deserve
There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).
Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians
Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
17th-century ballad about the Great Fire of London
Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
5yo, playing with her Playmobil sets: "the princesses are friends with the pirates"
Me: "ah, that makes them privateers"
It snowed on Christmas Day in Ellensburg! Only the second snow we’ve had in a month.
deck my body in gay ornaments
My former prof at OkState wrote a new book that sounds pretty amazing! 🏴☠️⚓️
The paperback edition of my book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages (2022), is now available to preorder through Routledge. Copies will ship after Dec 1. ⚓️
We're HIRING: “The Dept of English at UMass Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2026, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora." See below for description, and please share the news.
We're still looking for more people to write for this series. If you know somebody who has a really cool process they use for they academic work or a really cool digital humanities project, we'd love to recruit them.
If you have a cool process or project, we'd love for you to write for us too
