#earlymodern

For Women's History Month in March, I was interviewed by @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Alumni & Supporters about the #Gloucesterwreck, women’s histories, & whose stories survive - read it here
www.uea.ac.uk/about/giving...

Delighted that after many years in development, our #Gloucesterwreck collection has been sent to the publishers! Can’t wait for everyone to be able to read it.

The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.

📣Out now on #firstview

Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'

#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are getting excited - proof-reading the MS for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time! Finally! It should go to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for publication next week! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I are now discussing the cover image ... tempted by this artefact (!?)😉

Hull of cargo ship washed up by gales on Hemsby coast Part of a ship's wooden hull reveals the incredible craftsmanship of centuries past.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hull of Cargo Ship Washed up by Gales on Hemsby Coast!

Suggestion that it could be from 1600s or 1700s. Exciting!

Last day writing in 2025 ... close to finishing with @benjaminredding.bsky.social our co-ed collection, The Wreck of the #Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time, but not quite there ... should be out 2026 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social but until then, sharing some of my fav images! HNY!

A month after writing our 1st ever piece for @theconversation.com on #shippingforecast we're delighted to see its had over 11,000 readers! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I really enjoyed writing it & its been great to comments from readers
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...

Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians

Delighted to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social are publishing the series back catalogue (all pre 2025 books) for 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' in PAPERBACK www.routledge.com/Maritime-Hum...
6 fantastic books out 1/12/25 (all £42.99 in pb edn)

Wonderful to speak at KCL’s Maritime History Seminar last night. Very much enjoyed the event and catching up with everyone after. Thanks to everyone who attended

King’s Maritime History Seminars: Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy | King's College London Join Dr Benjamin Redding for an exploration of the Cromwellian Western Design expedition of 1654, a campaign marked by unrest and disaster. Focusing on the radical religious and political views of the...

Looking forward to speaking on Thursday 16 October at King’s Maritime History Seminars. I will be speaking on 'Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy'. All welcome. Information below:

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...

Wonderful to contribute to this with Claire. New article in @uk.theconversation.com

Ocean being split by waves of a passing ship off-camera

The Shipping Forecast has inspired art, poetry and music, saved lives, and soothed the nation to sleep – according to our maritime historians Prof @clairejowitt.bsky.social and Dr @benjaminredding.bsky.social.

Read more👉 bit.ly/3KnUdV3

#ShippingForecast #History #Radio

@ueahistory.bsky.social

Excited to start writing today my bits of the co-written Introduction, with @benjaminredding.bsky.social, to our inaugural multidisciplinary #Gloucesterwreck edited collection ... Contributors' essays are fab! Out next year with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ⚓⚓⚓

Great news! Congratulations Elaine!

A really good day ... 2 chapters arrived today for @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my #gloucesterwreck edited collection, to be published next year by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ... it's got 27 chapters & we'd been waiting on these, so super fab to have them ... (& just 3 more to get in!)🚌🚌

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory

A HUGE shoutout to @leverhulme.ac.uk who kindly supported #Gloucester research for the last 4 yrs. Today our final Project Report was submitted with 🙏 for enabling @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I to explore the full career this extraordinary ⛵
For project info: www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk

We (@benjaminredding.bsky.social Jess Jonson Justine Mann & moi) had a fab time @timetidemuseum.bsky.social sharing stories from the #Gloucester with @kickthedust.bsky.social heritage group & learning about what young people are interested in from Great Yarmouth's maritime history. Top snacks too!😋

Delighted that #Shipwrecks made it to BBC History Magazine's '25 things we've learnt over the past 25 years' article celebrating quarter-centenary of the mag! With shout-out to #gloucesterwreck

Catch me tonight talking all things #Gloucesterwreck to Elmswell History Group at 7.30pm www.elmswell-history.org.uk
Looking forward to going over the border to sunny Suffolk! All welcome! #EastAnglia ⚓ #maritimehistory

Great to see contracts issued to contributors by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my edited collection The Wreck of the Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, supported by funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk & @britishacademy.bsky.social ... out in 2026 🤞

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.

Recognise this one @clairejowitt.bsky.social - spotted in King’s Lynn

Lovely Great Yarmouth beach yesterday even on a wet day! www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk folk @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi on the jetty with UEA Computer Scientists doing fieldwork for a new maritime heritage Gloucester project (& we had chips too!)

Events & Activities - The Holt Society Events and Activities The next event of the Holt Society will be on 14th February, 2025 at the Holt Venue. Doors open 6:30. Members Tickets –£7.00 (Guests £12.00). Dr. Ben Redding, (Senior Research As...

I will be speaking in Holt as part of The Holt Society’s series of talks on 14 February 2025. Doors open at 6.30pm and I will be talking about ‘The Gloucester Across the Globe: Cromwell’s Warship, 1654–60’.

More information here www.theholtsociety.org/events-activ...

I am stunned and delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize. Thank you to @frenchhistory.bsky.social, and to everyone who helped to make the book a reality!

@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️