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Graham Moore

@mooregraham.bsky.social

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Maritime & social historian; 18th-C Collections Researcher for The National Archives UK. Sometime pirate. Views own &c

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Aug 1

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Quick Check Needed

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Laura's monograph was praised by the judges as:

"An impressive, conceptually adept and ambitiously argued book ... grounded in extraordinarily deep archival research ... clearly written and structured, as well as being cleverly and convincingly argued.”

bit.ly/3I4VdfB 2/2

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):

'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

bit.ly/4nwi4kj 1/2 #Skystorians

Cover for 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 26

Looks like this would be the mastodon (Mammut americanum) found at Big Bone Lick in 1755.

(I don’t have institutional access to read the whole chapter but there ya go)

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

a picture of the abba band with the words take a chance on me

Alt: a picture of the abba band with the words take a chance on me

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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

Surely one should be allowed to simply chance it…

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

I do need to write it up… something on pirate exit strategies, perhaps.
‘Piracy, And How To Get Away With It!’ (colon, Serious Title)

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

The National Archives is full of old fossils.
No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty.

Either that or a REALLY big bison.
#MastodonPosting
CO 700/Virginia18

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

Option available in periphery - SW counties, then colonial Ireland, then colonial Americas - where it also provided boost to economy and promoted trade links back towards metropole (who cracked down when the practice became politically insufferable).

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

Mutually beneficial to all parties where it minimised risk; pirates could re-enter legit society; victims avoid unreliable ‘dual process’ for restitution in HCA; vice-admiralty enjoys profiting, and also selling plunder on to other merchants.

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

You certainly may!
TLDR, evidence of out-of-court ‘composition’ settlements where pirates returned a portion of their plunder to victims, via a mediating [v-adm] official who also took a cut, in return for a ‘dispatch’ passport and hopefully a pardon.

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 6

I ordered something recently that got delivered to a special ‘mould shelf’, so if I drop off the face of the earth/a new pandemic begins, you’ll know what happened

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 6

what box was this 👀

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · Jun 6

In Which the Aladdin's Cave of HCA Series Papers Lures @thiagokrause.bsky.social 🤣 @mooregraham.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social I look forward to your report!

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · Jun 6

Historians are a weird bunch. Is it normal that we see a huge volume like this one and think: “ok, I’ll go through all these hundreds of pages with so-so handwriting to find the half a dozen documents that might be of interest?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 6

my only problem here is ‘half a dozen of interest’… what do you mean, you aren’t distracted by almost all of them??
(likewise keen to see what you find @thiagokrause.bsky.social - don’t think I’ve been through this particular HCA 13! particularly anything touching jurisdiction and process)

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David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social · May 23

‼️🐠 Our short “History Matters” piece — “Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi” just published OA in The Journal of African History!

doi.org/10.1017/S002...

A lengthier piece expanding on fisheries surveys & colonial development in L. Malawi coming soon in Isis… 🐠‼️

Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core

Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi - Volume 66

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Apr 3

Francis Drake fans (?) rejoice, because this book is for you!
New review of M-C Velázquez’s ‘Cultural Representations of Piracy’ (2023) in IJMH. The book does great stuff with both English and Spanish sources, arguing that cultural ideas of piracy stabilised by the end of the 16th-C.

International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · Apr 3

Check out @mooregraham.bsky.social Book review of 'Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604' by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez that was published as part of February 2025 issue

doi.org/10.1177/0843...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Apr 2

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Mar 24

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage

Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage at the University of Leeds

phd.leeds.ac.uk

Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Mar 17

enjoying this devious polar bear today, in John Seller’s Atlas Maritimus (1698)

[TNA, FO 925/4111]

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · Mar 13

This looks to be a fantastic #CoastalHistory talk for anyone near London!

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · Mar 13

Amidst all the terrible things, I'll be presenting my work at @thebartlettucl.bsky.social on 28 May. Details here www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Wretched Waters: Making Modernity and the Southern North Sea

This talk by Dr Sam Grinsell will explore what it means to put particular sites at the heart of global histories of the environment.

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Mar 13

Catalogue descriptions for the indictments, etc, in KB 9 have had an upgrade. We've tidied up dates and descriptions, which has hopefully made everything a bit clearer. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · Mar 11

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives

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