🏴☠️🏴 @SWWDTP funded PhD and lecturer at @UniRdg_History, researching early modern piracy and privateering. Twitterstorian pirate storyteller ☠️
Joined March 2022
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Luke Walters retweeted
5 Oct 2024
It's #HistoryWritersDay24! My new history of piracy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Enemies of All, is out in the UK and US and coming soon to the Netherlands - links to order here:
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11 Jul 2024
And of course if you want EVEN MORE #pirates, then check out Enemies of All, out now with @TheHistoryPress in the UK (buff.ly/4bQ77DG) and soon with @Pegasus_Books in the US (pegasusbooks.com/books/enemi…) and @hollands_diep in the Netherlands (hollandsdiep.nl/boek/3076/ri…).
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25 Sep 2024
Looking forward to continuing this research in my final year! ☠️🏴☠️⚓️
☠️ ⚔️ @CaptainJackdaws @UniRdg_History writes about his PhD research on the close connection between piracy and the creation of empire. Discover more bit.ly/DRHighlights23 ⚓️
ALT Double-page Highlights article by Luke Walters entitled Crossbones: Piracy and early imperial advancement. Left-hand page contains a colour drawing of a stereotypical pirate adjacent to a skull and cross-bones flag.
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Luke Walters retweeted
18 Aug 2024
Tonight, Pirates: Behind the Legends comes to @NatGeoTV in the UK. I really enjoyed contributing to the series (alongside @Beckalex @davidwilsonhist @hannahcusworth and others!).
natgeotv.com/uk/special/pira…
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6 Aug 2024
Save the date!
6 Aug 2024
Colonialism, smuggling, port towns and pirates - how has the Atlantic's unique geography affected world history? Join us at the Atlantic Geographies workshop as we discuss, @UniRdg_History on 13 Sept - sign up here! shorturl.at/KlNeg
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Luke Walters retweeted
Only one day until the #SummerResearchFestival! Join us for our online roundtable at 11:30AM on Thursday 6th of June where we’ll be discussing how memory and myths are interwoven with this year’s theme! Details on the talks below! @SWWDTP
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Luke Walters retweeted
17 May 2024
Tonight at 9pm I'll be speaking to @alexisconran on @TimesRadio about my new book Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates, which is out in the UK from @HistoryPress next week! You can order it here - lnk.to/enemiesofallEM
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Luke Walters retweeted
21 Apr 2024
⭐️ Catch work from our own @CaptainJackdaws and Anne Jeavons in this year's doctoral highlights! ⭐️
Check out the latest Highlights from our doctoral community and get a flavour of some of the incredible and varied research our students are working on. A few clues to what's inside: 🧠🏥🦂 ☀️🏴☠️✍️🇺🇳 🦥🏺
Do take a look 👉 bit.ly/DRHighlights23
ALT Cover image of the Doctoral Research Highlights 2023 publication produced by the Doctoral and Researcher College at the University of Reading. The dark blue cover image captures a pirate ship sailing on the sea under a full moon.
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Luke Walters retweeted
18 Apr 2024
Learned yesterday that Enemies of All has been sent to the printers.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
21 Feb 2024
Really excited that my first trade book will be coming out this year with @TheHistoryPress - Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates. You can preorder a copy here: lnk.to/enemiesofallEM
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Luke Walters retweeted
20 Mar 2024
For further thoughts on favourite pirate films from me, @CaptainJackdaws, @moregreyham, and @dmvc18 see here - unireadinghistory.com/2023/0…. Part of a series of posts on our @UniRdg_History blog on pirate films from last summer!
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Luke Walters retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Really excited that my first trade book will be coming out this year with @TheHistoryPress - Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates. You can preorder a copy here: lnk.to/enemiesofallEM
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25 Jan 2024
👀First event of the year👀
The @MemoryStudiesSW’s inaugural event of 2024 is right around the corner, join us online on the 5th of February, details below!
Spaces are still available for our upcoming online event on the 5th of February, link is in the post below!
You can also read more about this fascinating subject in Sandy and Catiana’s latest publication, available here: shorturl.at/klpwF
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Luke Walters retweeted
Don't forget to mark your diaries for the 5th of February and join us online for a fascinating talk with Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy regarding their latest project! Link here: shorturl.at/xLWY5 @SWWDTP
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15 Jan 2024
Myself and @martibiavati’s first event as cluster leads, join us as we’ll tackle the subject of memory and monsters! So looking forward to this one 👀👀
See below for the booking link to our highly anticipated event: ‘Memory and Monsters’ Featuring talks by Reading’s own @Mangham and @EmmaAston372, join us as we tackle the monstrous both in the physical, and metaphorical senses. Link: tdy.lol/UwIqu @SWWDTP
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12 Jan 2024
First event of 2024! Join us next month for an exciting online talk, link in the original post 👀
Join us online on Monday the 5th of February for a talk chaired by Catiana Garcia-Kilroy and Sandy Sugawara realgarding their latest project: Show me the Way Home: The Incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Link here: shorturl.at/xLWY5
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10 Dec 2023
#OnThisDay in 1718, Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, was hanged in Charleston. Bonnet was a wealthy landowner whose decision to turn to piracy is still debated. Nonetheless, he is now remembered as one of the most iconic figures of the ‘Golden Age’ of Piracy #PirateHistory
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Luke Walters retweeted
A slight amendment to our upcoming 'Memory and Monsters' workshop. The event will now take place on the 9th of February 2024, and we're looking forward to revealing more of the day's schedule and special features!
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24 Nov 2023
#OnThisDay in 1718, Calico Jack became captain! After he fled from a French warship, Calico Jack Rackham accused Charles Vane of cowardice and cast him adrift in a captured vessel. Rackham would later return to Nassau, before going pirating again with Anne Bonny #PirateHistory
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22 Nov 2023
#OnThisDay in 1718, Blackbeard fought his last stand at Ocracoke Inlet. Tired of the harassment of trade, Governor Spotswood sent Lt. Robert Maynard to hunt him down, and Blackbeard was no more. Yet, tales persist of the ‘supernatural’ aspects of his death… #PirateHistory
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17 Nov 2023
We are now inviting submissions for the SWW Memory Research Cluster's next workshop: Memory and Monsters: Phantoms, Fears, and the Human Condition. Please see the attachment for details, we're looking forward to seeing some of your fascinating contributions!
Call for Papers! In our first official event of the new academic year, we cordially invite contributions to our upcoming workshop: Memory and Monsters, to be held at the University of Reading in February 2024. Please see the attachment for details on submission! @SWWDTP
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