Out on the first research day for the new National Lottery Heritage Fund project to develop maritime heritage walks in Great Yarmouth
Benjamin Redding
@benjaminredding.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History at UEA. Researching the Gloucester shipwreck 1654-82. Early modern maritime and naval historian. https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-redding https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
Been a pleasure. Time to start reading!
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinal adjustments & proofreading for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, with thanks to our anonymous reader for a very helpful report. 24 essays! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I have loved editing this! Out soon with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
We are delighted to launch a new initiative to bring 'Naval Songs and Ballads' back to life! The tunes are named, BUT the music is not printed. See its contents: buff.ly/A9O0kBt #shantysingers #navalrecords #navyhistory #navyrecords #seafarers #nauticalmusic #nauticalhistory #navalchoir #NRS
Any folk and/or sea singers in my circle? The @navyrecords.bsky.social has a project you might be interested in, to build a set of recordings for sea songs and shantys that they have words for but no audio
4 years ago TODAY the discovery of the #Gloucester warship was publicly announced! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I sizzled on Great Yarmouth beach while the team did press interviews & my OA article about the ship's loss in 1682 came out @enghistrev.bsky.social ⚓ academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...
Do join us! For more information, please visit: lnkd.in/e6spEqik or email: mark.barton@snr.org.uk I am delighted to share recent research on the #Gloucesterwreck & so looking forward to exploring the glorious nautical heritage of Liverpool. #maritime #history #navy
Final Reminder - deadline for applications for The Dominic Christian Maritime History Scholarship, for entry in 2026, is 5 June 2026 For details & for T&C & eligibility see: www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
About to talk about #Gloucesterwreck & Great Yarmouth AR heritage walks on tv! Exciting! Catch me on #LookEast in an hour!
So pleased to be working on this. Bringing the Gloucester’s history and the maritime history of the seventeenth century to Great Yarmouth. Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund! #History #GreatYarmouth #Norfolk
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 4mo agoThanks to @edp24.bsky.social for covering our exciting #gloucesterwreck news www.edp24.co.uk/news/2614146... So looking forward to sharing stories of the shipwreck & Great Yarmouth's maritime past in augmented reality heritage walks! #norfolk
Delighted that with @norfolkmuseums.bsky.social & @benjaminredding.bsky.social we are going to create digitally-enhanced heritage walks in Great Yarmouth on #Gloucesterwreck - BBC News share.google/i5WilySD8F1A... So grateful to @nationallottery.bsky.social for funding the project #norfolk ⚓️🚶♀️⚓️🚶♂️
Digitally-enhanced walks to be created of Great Yarmouth wreck
People will be able to experience the town as major 17th Century port and the Gloucester shipwreck.
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For Women's History Month in March, I was interviewed by @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Alumni & Supporters about the #Gloucesterwreck, women’s histories, & whose stories survive - read it here www.uea.ac.uk/about/giving...
Delighted that after many years in development, our #Gloucesterwreck collection has been sent to the publishers! Can’t wait for everyone to be able to read it.
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt is with great delight that @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi pressed 'SEND' on the #Gloucesterwreck collection of essays! Now with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! 23 chapters, 150k words, 150 pictures, & with support from @leverhulme.ac.uk & @britishacademy.bsky.social ... Thanks All & time for 🥂
The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...
New Researchers in Maritime History Conference
A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians
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📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We are getting excited - proof-reading the MS for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time! Finally! It should go to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for publication next week! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I are now discussing the cover image ... tempted by this artefact (!?)😉
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Hull of Cargo Ship Washed up by Gales on Hemsby Coast! Suggestion that it could be from 1600s or 1700s. Exciting!
Hull of cargo ship washed up by gales on Hemsby coast
Part of a ship's wooden hull reveals the incredible craftsmanship of centuries past.
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Last day writing in 2025 ... close to finishing with @benjaminredding.bsky.social our co-ed collection, The Wreck of the #Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time, but not quite there ... should be out 2026 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social but until then, sharing some of my fav images! HNY!
A month after writing our 1st ever piece for @theconversation.com on #shippingforecast we're delighted to see its had over 11,000 readers! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I really enjoyed writing it & its been great to comments from readers theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 12mo agoReally pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...
Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800
An online lecture series organized by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project (Prize Papers Talks Special Edition)
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The Prize Papers Project@prizepapers.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!
Delighted to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social are publishing the series back catalogue (all pre 2025 books) for 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' in PAPERBACK www.routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... 6 fantastic books out 1/12/25 (all £42.99 in pb edn)
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11mo agoLooking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
Wonderful to speak at KCL’s Maritime History Seminar last night. Very much enjoyed the event and catching up with everyone after. Thanks to everyone who attended
Looking forward to speaking on Thursday 16 October at King’s Maritime History Seminars. I will be speaking on 'Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy'. All welcome. Information below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
King’s Maritime History Seminars: Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy | King's College London
Join Dr Benjamin Redding for an exploration of the Cromwellian Western Design expedition of 1654, a campaign marked by unrest and disaster. Focusing on the radical religious and political views of the...
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Wonderful to contribute to this with Claire. New article in @uk.theconversation.com
Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 12mo agoReally pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...
The Shipping Forecast has inspired art, poetry and music, saved lives, and soothed the nation to sleep – according to our maritime historians Prof @clairejowitt.bsky.social and Dr @benjaminredding.bsky.social. Read more👉 bit.ly/3KnUdV3 #ShippingForecast #History #Radio @ueahistory.bsky.social
Excited to start writing today my bits of the co-written Introduction, with @benjaminredding.bsky.social, to our inaugural multidisciplinary #Gloucesterwreck edited collection ... Contributors' essays are fab! Out next year with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ⚓⚓⚓
A really good day ... 2 chapters arrived today for @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my #gloucesterwreck edited collection, to be published next year by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ... it's got 27 chapters & we'd been waiting on these, so super fab to have them ... (& just 3 more to get in!)🚌🚌
CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... #maritimehistory
A HUGE shoutout to @leverhulme.ac.uk who kindly supported #Gloucester research for the last 4 yrs. Today our final Project Report was submitted with 🙏 for enabling @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I to explore the full career this extraordinary ⛵ For project info: www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk
We (@benjaminredding.bsky.social Jess Jonson Justine Mann & moi) had a fab time @timetidemuseum.bsky.social sharing stories from the #Gloucester with @kickthedust.bsky.social heritage group & learning about what young people are interested in from Great Yarmouth's maritime history. Top snacks too!😋
