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Professor Claire Jowitt

@clairejowitt.bsky.social

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Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-jowitt-416943160/

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Nov 23

Salts! I co-edit with John McAleer the #seafever book series Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 for @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
- if you have an 💡 for a book - monograph or edited collection - pls get in touch with us ...⚓️⚓️⚓️
aup.nl/en/series/ma...

Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800

The series puts maritime humanities at the centre of a transnational historiographical scholarship that seeks to transform traditional land-based histories of states and nations by focusing on the cul...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 1d

Really 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...

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 1d

Salts! Ahoy ... All about conservation of the Mary Rose with Eleanor Schofield is on this morning on 'Life Scientific' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... ⚓

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on conserving a 500-year-old wooden warship.

www.bbc.co.uk

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 6d

Think its to do with Routledge & AUP's new relationship & migration of material. @erikagaffney.bsky.social is the commissioning editor for Maritime Humanities 1400-1800 for the publisher - so should be able to advise. Series is very much alive & well, so glad to have your/your colleague's interest!

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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 7d

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

Ocean being split by waves of a passing ship off-camera

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 8d

Ooh ... excited to get my tix for this for next spring! Now on general sale @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
Looks a great production! 🎭

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 8d

I'm speaking next on #gloucester to Loddon History Group on Wed 15 Ocober, 1.30pm - details below ... do join me ...
www.loddonhistorygroup.co.uk/events/

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 8d

A meme for the modern university...

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely to receive my copies in the post! Congrats to @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner & all the contributors (including moi!) 🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️☠️

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in
@englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social
👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 17d

Folks ... get ready ... tomorrow is the start of NEGRONI WEEK 2025 AND Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800 ed @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner will be published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ... these things must be connected ... 🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 18d

This gorgeous boy - now aged 16 - had his annual check-up yesterday with the vetinary! Lots of prodding & poking, but a pretty clean bill of health for a mature gent! Huzzah! Now sleeping-in to recover ... 🐶🩺

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 20d

Many congratulations to @medievalmariner.bsky.social & John Mcaleer & team for a fantastic launch event last night to AHRC funded Maritime Britain website ... so many ships, mariners & cargo ... bravo!👏👏👏🥂

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Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 21d

Kicking off #maritimebritain conference with @clairejowitt.bsky.social speaking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 22d

1st keynote! @plymprivateer.bsky.social on Women & British Warships in the c17 ... huzzah! 👭⚓️👭⚓️👭

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 22d

& we're off! 1st paper at #maritimebritain conference on maritime predation in the narrow seas from Dr Robert Blakemore & a forthcoming book! 🏴‍☠️⚓️

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Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 22d

Delighted to be at the Maritime Britain conference in Southampton this week with some great sounding papers @clairejowitt.bsky.social

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 25d

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Archaeologists Unearth Europe’s Oldest Naval Artillery on Sunken Royal Ship

The shipwreck of Gribshunden revealed unique artillery and insights into European exploration. Denmark, however, prioritized Baltic control over Atlantic expansion. Archaeologists from Lund University...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28d

Sorry Hanna to hear this very sad news (only now) ... Cx

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28d

Even lovely in the British drizzle ... but still NO 🦦 #hols

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28d

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/08/b...

Banking family’s treasures go on show at Bath’s Holburne Museum

Nearly 200 Renaissance works, on long-term loan from the Schroder Collection, will be displayed in a dedicated gallery

www.theartnewspaper.com

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 29d

Morning view lakeside ... misty fruitfulness #hols

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 29d

Beautiful evening lakeside ... hoping for a visit from the resident 🦦 #hols

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · Sep 7

Final few days to sign up for this event at the National Maritime Museum next Friday/Saturday (day tickets available). Fantastic range of speakers and subjects including some great emerging scholars. Join in for what will be a fascinating conversation

David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · May 15

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference

This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war.

www.rmg.co.uk

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Sep 7

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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