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Hosting a Digital or NCN Conference: Reflections and Best Practices, Part II

This is the second of two posts reflecting on Global Maritime History’s recent digital conference on “Maritime Toxic Masculinity” with some thoughts from the conference organ[...]

12 Sep 2019

Tag Academic Practice, conferences, maritime history, Maritime Toxic Masculinity

Hosting a Digital or NCN Conference: Reflections and Best Practices, Part I

Some thoughts and suggestions from the conference organizers, Kelsey Power and Sarah Pickman In April of 2019, Global Maritime History hosted its first digital conference, on “Mari[...]

09 Sep 2019

Tag Academic Practice, conferences, maritime history, Maritime Toxic Masculinity

Discuss-a-doc: Royal Marine Cloth Swatches from 1806

The Admiralty In-letters held by the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich yield few, but exciting, results including three pieces of cloth intended for Royal [...]

12 Aug 2019

Tag 18th century, 19th Century, Archives, Britain, maritime history, Material Culture, Meaghan Walker, Napoleonic Wars, National Archives, National Maritime Museum, Royal Marines, Royal Navy

Museum Review: Vancouver Maritime Museum

The city’s namesake was the first person ever to survey or chart the Pacific Northwest. British Commander George Vancouver produced some of the most accurate and detailed map[...]

18 Jul 2019

Tag 18th century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Archives, Arlene Spencer, British Columbia, Canada, Empire, maritime history, Museum Review, Pacific Northwest, Royal Navy, Vancouver, Vancouver Maritime Museum

Discuss-a-Doc: The ADM 12 Digests and the Great British Bed Shortages of 1803-1805

The history of the Royal Navy, especially during the 25-year period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is usually taught as a history of conflict between the British a[...]

14 Jul 2019

Tag 18th century, 19th Century, Archives, Britain, maritime history, Material Culture, Meaghan Walker, Napoleonic Wars, National Archives, Royal Navy

ADM 8 Project: New Transcription Interface

The past few months (read: since February or March of 2018) has not been kind to the ADM 8 project. Every single instance I’ve put time aside to work on it, other things have[...]

08 Jul 2019

Tag 17th century, Academia, Academic Practice, ADM 8 Database Project, Anglo-Dutch Wars Project, Archives, Digital Humanities, historical practice, HTML, interdisciplinary study, maritime history, PHP, Royal Navy, Samuel McLean, User Interface, Wordpress

CFP: Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanisms

CFP: Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanisms A Workshop at Columbia University, March 13-14, 2020 Since the proliferation of Indian Ocean studies as a field over the past four decades, s[...]

04 Jun 2019

Tag and Technology, Columbia University, Cultural History, history of science, Indian Ocean, Labor History, Labour History, maritime history, Material History, medicine, Ocean Urbanisms, South Asian History, Urban and Ocean Histories, Urban History

The Omitted, Censored, and Redacted Historical Record: How Untold History Revealed a Folk Hero in the Minutes of the Council and General Court

For the past four years I have researched early seventeenth century English ship’s Master, Richard Williams alias Cornish, or Richard Cornish, full time, to inform an historical no[...]

02 May 2019

Tag 17th century, Arlene Spencer, Discuss-A-Doc, history, maritime history

Jacques Cartier MA Thesis Prize Announcement

The Canadian Nautical Research Society is pleased to announce the re-introduction of the Jacques Cartier MA Award. We are now accepting submissions for the 2019 award. The CNRS has[...]

03 Apr 2019

Tag Canada, Canadian, Canadian Nautical Research Society, Cartier Prize, maritime history, Prize

Conference: Trading Worlds: Oceans, Empires, Seas

Trading Worlds: Oceans, Empires, Seas A free conference hosted at the Yale University MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Friday April 5th: 3:30 Welcome by Alan Mik[...]

26 Mar 2019

Tag Conference, empires, interdisciplinary study, maritime history, Trade

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Hosting a Digital or NCN Conference: Reflections and Best Practices, Part II

Hosting a Digital or NCN Conference: Reflections and Best Practices, Part I

Discuss-a-doc: Royal Marine Cloth Swatches from 1806

Museum Review: Vancouver Maritime Museum

Discuss-a-Doc: The ADM 12 Digests and the Great British Bed Shortages of 1803-1805

ADM 8 Project: New Transcription Interface

CFP: Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanisms

The Omitted, Censored, and Redacted Historical Record: How Untold History Revealed a Folk Hero in the Minutes of the Council and General Court

Jacques Cartier MA Thesis Prize Announcement

Conference: Trading Worlds: Oceans, Empires, Seas

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