Here at Global Maritime History, we are looking for new people to join the website as “staff”.
To start: This website is not monetized, so these are unpaid/volunteer positions, so to speak.
We’re looking for people who study maritime topics, from anywhere in the world, and any part of history, who are historians or have history-adjacent fields of study.
Types of Content We’re Looking For
How I Became A Historian
Our most long-running series is ‘How I became a Historian’ and features historians and other scholars talking about how they came to study boats/maritime things. We would absolutely love to get this series going again. This is a great opportunity to promote your work and just show how cool you are.
Specific Run Series
We’re very much looking for people who have a specific idea bout a series of posts that they’d be interested in doing on a specific topic. One example from the past is Dr Alexander Clarke’s excellent series on the Tribal Class Destroyers. Another example is Matt Willis’s fun series on British Aircraft Prototypes and not-selected designs after the First World War.
The guideline for this kind of content is that it should be something the author considers to be a fun topic. They certainly don’t need to be too serious. Niche topics are especially good for this, things you’ve had to trim out of your PhD thesis or book but that you’d like to write a little bit about anyways.
Promoting Projects
At Global Maritime History we love to provide a platform for organizations and individuals to promote projects that they are working on. These can be longer posts, and they are generally a single post. But they are very much an opportunity to really show off the cool things that are being done with images, videos or other things. One example is this post from Nicholas Jellicoe describing his Battle of Jutland Animantion project.
Also, if you have a book coming out soon, or scholarly event, we’d love to help you promote your own work.
Ongoing Research and Resources
We also love to help organizations, museums and libraries promote their work and resources. These are similar to the last category, and they absolutely provide an opportunity for these organizations to talk about specific things they are working on, or talk about their resources in depth. It is critically important that these do not need to be, and shouldn’t be brief posts. The more detail and links, the better that they can be promoted.
Two examples are this recent post by Kat Moody about Christchurch, NZ and Antarctic exploration, and Ron van Maanen’s post about the archives for Kon. Mij. De Schelde dockyard.
Calls for Papers, Conferences, Events
if you have an event you’d like to be publicized more widely, please don’t hesitate to send us the information. If you do send us information, please make sure it’s not as a JPG- while we would like to have a copy of the conference poster or the logo of the host to use as the main image for social media purposes, it’s best if the text sent to us is in a Word or LibreOffice document to be copied into the WordPress interface.
If you’re interested in contributing to our website, please get in touch with Sam McLean.
