Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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as well as Caribbean, early American, Atlantic and Indian Ocean histories. All researchers are welcome, with no prior experience with archives required.
which are in many different languages. They are particularly valuable for those studying overseas trade, migration, women’s history, the transatlantic slave trade, life at sea, material culture, piracy, privateering and coastal cultures,
The English High Court of Admiralty’s archive contains a vast number of sources for global, colonial, and maritime history c.1550-c.1850 that have seen limited by researchers. This one-day workshop will provide attendees with the skills to locate and use these challenging records,
Workshop Announcement: Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records. 18 June 2026 at the UK National Archives. Banner with an archive image in the background.
Our colleague, Dr Oliver Finnegan, records specialist for the Prize Papers at @nationalarchivesuk, holds a workshop on 'Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records', more info below & tickets can be booked here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-...
We wish you all the best for the upcoming term and look forward to welcoming you again in autumn!
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the last instalment of our lecture series, Ships and Seafaring 1500-1800, on March 30th. The hosts @lhaasis.bsky.social and @neleppp.bsky.social want to thank everyone who presented, participated in the discussions, and attended.
Next week, on the 23rd March, 1 PM CET, we welcome a very special guest to our Ships & Seafaring 1500-1800 Talk: Dr. Fred Hocker, the director of research at the @vasamuseet in Stockholm. In his talk, he answers the question we all want answered: why did the Vasa sank in 1628?
Next Monday, 16th March at 1 PM CET, we welcome Lucas' colleagues from the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven to tell us more about reconstructing a historical shipwreck! Join us under www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...!
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On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory
Join us Monday, 23rd February at 1 PM for Lunch Talks: Kings of Privateering, where we’ll explore how Spanish privateers in the 18th-century Caribbean were vital instruments of imperial power—driving war, trade, smuggling, and the trade with enslaved people with remarkable agency.
Next Monday (February 9th), Hielke van Nieuwenhuize talks about the role Dutch Seamen played in Sweden's expansion beyond the Baltic Sea during the Swedish "Stormaktstiden". Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #skystorians #earlymodern #maritimehistory
Check out the link below for more information and the registration for Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez's (@desvelandooriente.com) book presentation and the workshop on Early Modern Transatlantic Migration here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Next week (26/01 @ 1PM), the Ships & Seafaring Talks - a Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven welcomes a very special guest: underwater archaeologist Felix Rösch from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, who is excavating a very special Hanseatic merchant ship!
For the first talk of the second half of our Ships & Seafaring 1500-1800 series - A Prize Papers Talks Special Edition, Milagrosa Romero Samper is taking us to Honduras to tell a tale about dye-ing feud! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
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“A new take on European expansion”
Just before Christmas project director @dagmarfreist.bsky.social gave an interview on the project and her recent trip to the Spanish embassy. Check it out here: uol.de/en/news/arti...
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@desvelandooriente.com
. Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/16/CRA152. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone
Selected Documents:
CRA5C: A printed theatre play from Calderón de la Barca.
CRA152: A beautiful calligraphy book. See Discovery for details about it.
drafts for letters and culinary notes. His archive offers us a glimpse of how a passenger might have spent time on board (practising calligraphy or reading a play by Calderón de la Barca, for instance).
The text and metadata were produced by Alejandro Salamanca - @desvelandooriente.com . Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/16/CRA152. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone
Nicolás Cranisbro (or Cranisbrough) was a passenger on the Fort de Nantes. He belonged to an Anglo-Spanish family from El Puerto de Santa María . His personal archive contains many letters, some of them entrusted to him for his delivery, He also had calligraphy exercises, prayers...
Our hosts @lhaasis.bsky.social and @neleppp.bsky.social want to thank all the contributors and listeners for an amazing first half of the series, and we hope you will return in the new year! We wish you a joyful season and a great start to the new year!
The first half of "Ships and Seafaring 1500–1800" has wrapped up! Last Monday’s talk closed this year’s program, and we’ll be back with more in 2026. We wish you all a well-deserved Christmas break. We’ll be back on January 12 with our next talk—until then, you can check out the whole program below
The text and metadata were produced by Alejandro Salamanca - @desvelandooriente.com. Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/22/HM2. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone
HM8: From a young migrant in Mexico to his parents in Cádiz; the father is a mason/builder.
HM11: From a mother in Havana (!) to her son in Cádiz, there is another letter enclosed inside
HM2: Advice for a teenager in the family: He must learn any instrument except the guitar
HM5: Description of how a young girl behaves, very funny in Spanish