The Gloucester Project, researching the life and times of the third-rate frigate the Gloucester (1654-82)
Joined June 2022
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30 May 2024
'one of the great what ifs of British history...'
Did you know that you can watch a free guided virtual tour of 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester: Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck, 1682' exhibition held at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery? Available here.
youtube.com/watch?v=hvsJuAu7…
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OTD 4 years ago in 2022, the discovery of the @gloucesterwreck was publicly announced!
@BenjaminRedding & I sizzled on Great Yarmouth beach as the team did press interviews & my OA article about G's loss in 1682 came out in
@enghistrev - time flies!!
academic.oup.com/ehr/article…
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Happy that we can announce that with @NorfolkMuseums & @clairejowitt we will create digitally-enhanced heritage walks in Great Yarmouth on @gloucesterwreck Thanks to @HeritageFundUK for generously funding the project bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2… #Norfolk #GreatYarmouth #History
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz…
Hull of Cargo Ship Washed up by Gales on Hemsby Coast!
Suggestion that it could be from 1600s or 1700s. Exciting!
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I'm speaking next on #gloucester to Loddon History Group on Wed 15 Ocober, 1.30pm - details below ... do join me ... loddonhistorygroup.co.uk/eve…
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Enjoyed talking about my latest @gloucesterwreck research on royal physician Sir Charles Scarburgh at @Medievalmariner & John Mcaleer & team's conference to celebrate the launch of @maritimebritain project website ... lovely event! ⚓️⚓️⚓️
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Excited to start writing today my bits of the co-written Introduction, with @BenjaminRedding to our inaugural multidisciplinary @gloucesterwreck edited collection ... Contributors' essays are fab! Out next year with
@boydellbrewer
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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator theguardian.com/books/2025/a…
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A really good day ... 2 chapters arrived today for
@BenjaminRedding & my @gloucesterwreck edited collection, to be published next year by
@boydellbrewer ... it's got 27 chapters & we'd been waiting on these, so super fab to have them ... (& just 3 more to get in!)🚌🚌
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19 Jul 2025
I've got a new article about the failed British invasion of the Netherlands in 1673 on the splendid Heart of Oak website! heart-of-oak.org/2025/07/18/…
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Deadline for applications for this fantastic donor scholarship in Maritime History @UEA_History
is 8 August 2025 - please share 📢📢📢
📢FAO UEA students
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @UEA_History in 2025
Value £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and-fun…
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ATTENTION MARITIME HISTORY FANS! The CfP for the Maritime Britain project end of project conference is now live. Check out the poster below and register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-…
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27 Jun 2025
A HUGE shoutout to @LeverhulmeTrust who kindly supported #Gloucester research for the last 4 yrs. Today our final Project Report was submitted with 🙏 for enabling @BenjaminRedding & @clairejowitt to explore this amazing⛵'s full career
For project info: gloucestershipwreck.co.uk
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27 Jun 2025
We (@BenjaminRedding & Jess Jonson & @justinemann & @clairejowitt) had a fab time @timetidemuseum sharing stories from the #Gloucester with @KTDnorfolk heritage group & learning about what young people are interested in from Great Yarmouth's maritime history. Top snacks too!😋
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11 Jun 2025
Hoorah! A new book of (fab) essays with (as it happens) a gorgeous cover, in honour of Bernard Capp! Courtesy of @boydellbrewer, @TimHarrisBrown and his fellow editors!
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📢FAO UEA students
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @UEA_History in 2025
Value £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and-fun…
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23 May 2025
Delighted that #Shipwrecks made it to BBC History Magazine's '25 things we've learnt over the past 25 years' article celebrating quarter-centenary of the mag! With shout-out to #gloucesterwreck
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18 May 2025
Fantastic!
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Many congratulations to George Clay🥇winner of the 2025 @HakluytSociety Essay Prize, and to runners up Peter Wells & James Fox
hakluyt.com🏆👏🏆👏🏆👏
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