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Imagine calling me an amateur & just a tv show fan. (People did/do) *Waves academic degrees in history around* & I worked hard to obtain them. My one & only motivation for my research is my passion for history. History is the gift that keeps on giving. I'm a history superfan!❤️
99% of 🇬🇧 data transmission, accounting for £1.15 trillion, relies on just 60 undersea cables 🌊
Following Defence Secretary @JohnHealey_MP’s announcement of 🇬🇧 month-long tracking of 🇷🇺 surveillance of undersea cables, this map from our #GeopoliticalAtlas visualises this critical infrastructure.
🔗 geostrategy.org.uk/research/…
.@NatMuseumRN is launching a campaign to raise the final £2.5million needed to open the Royal Marines Experience in Portsmouth.
Boathouse 6 in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will be transformed into a national centre, celebrating the service and history of the Royal Marines. Bringing to life over 360 years of history, from the corps formation in 1664 to its vital modern-day role as the United Kingdom’s commando force.
Designed as a place of inspiration, remembrance and education, it will ensure that the extraordinary stories of RMs are protected for future generations.
You can donate here: donate.nmrn.org.uk
📢 Call for Papers: @freeman_air's Air & Space Postgraduate Conference 2026
📅 8 June 2026
📌 Strand Campus
🗨️ Submissions welcome from postgraduate researchers, Masters & PhD students
To find out more or to submit a paper, visit 👇
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Our latest online magazine article explores shipbuilding in the 9th to 11th centuries. Using evidence from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it challenges the idea that King Alfred the Great founded the English navy. 📃 Read now 🔗 : buff.ly/PIpN9ys#navalhistory#medieval#NRS
This week, the Mariner's Mirror #Podcast is joined by Professor Faye Hammill, whose work illuminates why ocean liners so powerfully shaped literary imagination. Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙️
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‘🇬🇧 must recognise that undersea cables are no longer just critical infrastructure – they are contested strategic terrain,’ writes Francesco Canossi, silver prize winner in the First Sea Lord’s Essay Competition
#ISPC2025#Broadsidethebroadside.org.uk/p/first-…
***Cover reveal*** for Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited by Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller & published by @routledgebooks which will be out on 6/5/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Can't wait! routledge.com/Material-Cultu…
It’s been a privilege to work on this series new as part of the podcast team. Thank you to @heritagemalta and @VisitMalta for inviting @DrSamWillis and I, not too long ago, to record these episodes!
⚓️ The next episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast is now available 🎙️
Listen now
🔗 snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
... or find us wherever you get your podcasts!
📢📢📢New book in the series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cultu…
🎧 The next episode of the Mariner's Mirror Podcast is now available
@DrSamWillis and @LRFHEC archivist Zach Schieferstein discuss the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-1904 and the expedition’s vessel, the Scotia
#historypodcast#maritimehistory#polarexpedition