Women at Sea in the Early Modern World - What an incredibly exciting and exceedingly promising symposium that was! There is just a ton of work out there being done, in such a wide variety of spaces and times - there's going to be a bonanza of publication in the next few years.

#histodons #maritimehistory

Also loving Samuel Diener's “Every fair Columbus”: The voyage genre and the woman in the wreck - I mean, this is a banger, and I am busy taking notes

#histodons #maritimehistory

SO excited to get day two of Women and the Sea in the Early Modern Period with Khedidja Chergui on Sayyida al Hurra: The Female Corsair of the West Mediterranean (1515–1542). IF you're not here, YOU'RE MISSING OUT this is so cool and I'm really bad live blogging things sorry

#histodons #maritimehistory

Last talk in this group by Graham Kerr on enslaved women working in Royal Navy Yards - very important subject, and some great research. As usual when it comes to slavery, it's difficult work, both technically and emotionally, but incredibly valuable for understanding the Atlantic World.

#histodons #maritimehistory

Hannah Gibbons, providing us a fascinating look at women's role in London's docklands, particularly in credit, exchange of goods, and other business-y (an official scholarly term) aspects of life. Early days yet, but extremely promising, especially for space, urban history and of course maritime and economic history. Gibbons is doing some really detailed research to trace these women and their activity and lives. With an encore about woman working as engine builder!

#histodons #maritimehistory

Now hearing a talk by Erin Spinney on women working at Naval Hospitals - nurses, washerwomen, etc - while there's always room for more, I'm really impressed with the detail of the records and Spinney's intricate analysis of women's careers. Very excited to her analysis of the role of matrons, too! Very interesting level of authority going on there.

#histodons #maritimehistory

Final talk for this set was by Kathleen Burke of the University of New York University Shanghai, which is finding women of mixed local and European extraction and examining women's role more broadly in the Indian Ocean through some pretty fascinating sources - including cookbooks! Folks interested in food and material history and cultural components of food should definitely keep an eye on this work.
#histodons #foodhistory #maritimehistory

This was followed by a talk by Lucy Huggins from Southampton offering a fascinating preliminary look at some of the things coming out about women ship owners through the work being done by the English Merchant Shipping, Trade, and Maritime Communities project there - did you know they're using AI (no, not in the way that we all keep worrying about) to find patterns in their thousands of sources? Keep an eye on them! https://maritimebritain.org/
#histodons #maritimehistory

For my history of technology and maritime folks:

Boydell & Brewer is having an ebook sale! Which means you can get a great deal on Phillip Reid's A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1777. It's one of those rare chances we get to really get into the day-to-day of shipboard life AND talk about living history/replica ships and what we can learn from them in tandem with historical records.
Book:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783277469/a-boston-schooner-in-the-royal-navy-1768-1772/
Sale:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/big-ebook-sale-2023/?utm_source=sale-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bes23&utm_content=button
#maritimehistory #maritime #histodons

Don't know if folks saw this, but I am, of course 1000% in:
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20002581/unsettling-orthodoxies-merchant-seafaring-history-post-1750

Unsettling Orthodoxies in Merchant Seafaring History (Post 1750) - a series of workshops organized by Meaghan Walker, Kristof Loockx, and Valerie Burton. The first couple of sessions will be about materialism and sailortowns, but after that, participants input will shape the subjects.

I cannot express how excited I am about it.

#maritimehistory #histodons

edit: omg i misspelled Kristof's name, many apologies!

What! Local Sea Shanty (ish) night in Austin, Texas!?
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inversion-coda-presents-tales-of-the-sea-tickets-669940458947?aff=oddtdtcreator
#maritimehistory

Who is interested in #MaritimeHistory give a yell in the comments?!

As a native of Hull, this new photography exhibition is a must see for me. It explores Hull's fishing industry with portraits and stories of people involved in the fishing industry during the 1970s, whichever marked the demise of deep sea fishing from Hull.
The exhibition is the work of a small group of photographers called The People and is at the Independent Photography Gallery in the Prospect Centre throughout July and August.
#Fishing #Hull #Trawling #MaritimeHistory

https://maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happening/news/news-fish-new-photography-exhibition-exploring-hulls-fishing-industry-goes-on-display

The European Association for Urban History also has a CFP out for their main session on coastal cities during their 2024 conference "Cities on the Edge"! M38: "Where the land meets the sea. Coastal towns and cities as nodes of mediation in a global era"
CFP here: https://networks.h-net.org/group/73374/announcements/20000966/cfp-session-m38-eauh-2024-where-land-meets-sea-coastal-towns-and
#history #histodons #urbanhistory #maritimehistory

Wanted to highlight this CFP from H-Maritime issued by a project in the history department of Tor Vergata University of Rome:
Women of the Waterfront. Gendering ports, careers, relations and (everyday) life trajectories in Modern times
Here's a link to the post: https://networks.h-net.org/group/7836/announcements/20000915/cfp-workshop-women-waterfront-rome-6-7-december-2023
#history #histodons #maritimehistory #maritime

Nautical Archaeology Society shared an announcement that an expedition (searching for something else, as it often seems to go😂 ) has found the wreck of some WW2-era LTCs that went down off Cornwall:
https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/divers-find-amphibious-shipwreck-100m-deep-off-cornwall/
#histodons #history #archaeology #nauticalarchaeology #maritimehistory

Lauren Working shared what looks to be an interesting exhibit workshop on "Shipwrecks, poetry, and porcelain" at the World Museum in Liverpool:
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/world-museum/event/shipwrecks-poetry-and-porcelain-exhibition-workshop
#history #histodons #maritimehistory

The Eighteenth-Century Fiction Journal is always doing fun highlights of different stuff on Twitter, and I caught this 2020 article from Mona Narain on "Oceanic Intimacies" today: "In this essay, I explore what intimacies might be revealed if we trace oceanic entanglements created by eighteenth-century maritime routes and journeys in historical and contemporary imaginative reconstructions of such histories."
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/844980
#histodons #history #Literature #maritimehistory

Christopher Pittard shared a link to this issue of Victorian Studies for his review of recent work on Victorian criminality and literature, but honestly it's got it all - whales! Victorian feminism! "Sanctified Sinophobia"! Whale Ghosts!
https://muse-jhu-edu/issue/50292#info_wrap
It's Issue 65, No 1, 2022, if that link doesn't work...
#histodons #history #Literature #maritimehistory

This CFP looks like it'll produce an interesting issue from the Journal of Histoical Geography:

"The journal invites expressions of interest for a forthcoming virtual special issue entitled 'Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea'.

Deadlines: EOIs 1 Sep '23 / submissions 5 Jan '24

Details here: http://bit.ly/CfPLiquidWorlds

#histodons #history #maritimehistory