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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

Museum Review: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

In January, I spent some time in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was lucky enough to be able to visit two of the City’s museums. On my first day there, I was able to visit the Marit[...]

13 Feb 2019

Tag Canada, Halifax, maritime history, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Museum Review, Nova Scotia, Samuel McLean

Discuss-a-Doc: The Log of the Portland

Ships’ logs are an incredible type of document for maritime historians. They are essentially ideal for modern digital humanities approaches- they are usually lengthy enough t[...]

06 Dec 2018

Tag 18th century, Archives, Digital Humanities, Discuss-A-Doc, Empire, Kew, maritime history, National Archives, Royal Navy

Focusing Collective Aggression on a Surrogate

Similarly to last month’s post on my presentation at PCA-South in New Orleans October 2-5th, this month’s post will share the presentation that I will give at the AFS (American Fol[...]

29 Oct 2018

Tag 17th century, 18th century, 19th Century, Atlantic World, bonding, interdisciplinary study, literature, maritime history, Masculinity, Restoration, Sedgwick

‘With a prick from here to Tennessee’: Fetishizing Male Genitals in Sea Chanteys

This month’s post constitutes a part of a conference paper to be delivered in New Orleans for the PCA-South (Popular Culture Association South-Regional) conference. The title of t[...]

01 Sep 2018

Tag 17th century, 18th century, 19th Century, Atlantic World, Conference, history, interdisciplinary study, literature, maritime history, Restoration

CFP: “CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS”

46th ALBERT REED & THELMA WALKER MARITIME SYMPOSIUM “CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS” SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2019 (BATH, MAINE) CALL FOR PAPERS The maritime environment undergoes sea changes[...]

27 Aug 2018

Tag ALBERT REED & THELMA WALKER MARITIME SYMPOSIUM, Environment, Maine Maritime Museum, maritime history

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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

Museum Review: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

Discuss-a-Doc: The Log of the Portland

Focusing Collective Aggression on a Surrogate

‘With a prick from here to Tennessee’: Fetishizing Male Genitals in Sea Chanteys

CFP: “CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS”

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