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Benjamin Redding

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Lecturer in Early Modern History at UEA. Researching the Gloucester shipwreck 1654-82. Early modern maritime and naval historian. research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/person… www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Out on the first research day for the new National Lottery Heritage Fund project to develop maritime heritage walks in Great Yarmouth
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Been a pleasure. Time to start reading!
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Navy Records Society @navyrecords.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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
Appeal calling for contributors to the Songs & Ballads of the Royal Navy project, seeking musicians, historians, and volunteers to help record traditional naval songs from the 1907 printed volume "Naval Songs and Ballads". The poster announces upcoming NRS YouTube releases and provides a contact email of onlineeditor@navyrecords.org.uk for involvement.
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 01/07/2026
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
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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/...
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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...
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
About to talk about #Gloucesterwreck & Great Yarmouth AR heritage walks on tv! Exciting! Catch me on #LookEast in an hour!
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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 ⚓️🚶‍♀️⚓️🚶‍♂️
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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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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#earlymodern
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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...
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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.
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Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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...
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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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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📣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...
Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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 (!?)😉
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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!
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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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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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!
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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...
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Nele Popp @neleppp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
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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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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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)
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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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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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Wonderful to contribute to this with Claire. New article in @uk.theconversation.com
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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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 · 08/08/2025
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 ⚓⚓⚓
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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!)🚌🚌
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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!😋
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Catch me tonight talking all things #Gloucesterwreck to Elmswell History Group at 7.30pm www.elmswell-history.org.uk Looking forward to going over the border to sunny Suffolk! All welcome! #EastAnglia ⚓ #maritimehistory
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great to see contracts issued to contributors by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for @benjaminredding.bsky.social & my edited collection The Wreck of the Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, supported by funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk & @britishacademy.bsky.social ... out in 2026 🤞
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Recognise this one @clairejowitt.bsky.social - spotted in King’s Lynn
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Lovely Great Yarmouth beach yesterday even on a wet day! www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk folk @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi on the jetty with UEA Computer Scientists doing fieldwork for a new maritime heritage Gloucester project (& we had chips too!)
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I will be speaking in Holt as part of The Holt Society’s series of talks on 14 February 2025. Doors open at 6.30pm and I will be talking about ‘The Gloucester Across the Globe: Cromwell’s Warship, 1654–60’. More information here www.theholtsociety.org/events-activ...
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Events & Activities - The Holt Society
Events and Activities The next event of the Holt Society will be on 14th February, 2025 at the Holt Venue. Doors open 6:30. Members Tickets –£7.00 (Guests £12.00). Dr. Ben Redding, (Senior Research As...
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am stunned and delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize. Thank you to @frenchhistory.bsky.social, and to everyone who helped to make the book a reality! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Huzzah! After much huffing & puffing, I have finished 1st draft of my gloucester shipwreck essay for our forthcoming edited collection with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ... co-editor @benjaminredding.bsky.social drafted his ages ago, so I'm tardy✍️... off to celebrate (& only read thru again 2moro!)
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The tree is up in the Redding household. Featuring this beauty from last year’s Gloucester exhibition ⚓️🌊🎄
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Justine Mann @justinemann.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Congratulations to @clairejowitt.bsky.social and @benjaminredding.bsky.social on further recognition of their brilliant maritime history project #gloucester1682
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today, after much prevarication & face pulling, I am finally starting to write my chapter for a co-edited 📖 with @benjaminredding.bsky.social on Gloucester wreck 1682 contracted to boydellandbrewer.com .... back at sea with royal physician Dr Scarburgh ... huzza! huzza! huzza! #amwriting 🌊🩺🩸
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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Call for Papers! The British Commission for #MaritimeHistory will hold their 30th annual New Researchers conference at Hull in April 2025. It has THE BEST supportive environment for new scholars (also including independent) I've ever been to. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/c...
The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH) invites contributions to its 30th Conference for New Researchers in Maritime History.

The conference will be held in Hull, a port-city that ranked as the third busiest commercial port in Britain, and one of Europe’s largest fishing harbours. Today, as well as continuing to engage in various sea-related activities, Hull is leveraging its significant maritime heritage, through the refurbishment of six historic sites and two preserved ships, to market itself as Yorkshire’s Maritime City.  It therefore provides an inspiring location for a conference that focuses on the maritime dimensions of history.

The Conference, which is supported by the Society for Nautical Research and University of Hull Maritime History Trust, is designed to enable those in the early stages of their research careers to present their ideas, plans and findings to an informed and enthusiastic audience, and to build relations with other maritime historians. We warmly encourage applications from postgraduate students and independent scholars, whose contributions can address any aspect of maritime history in its broadest sense.

Paper Submissions

Those wishing to offer a paper should fill in and submit an application via this Google Form by 20 January 2025.
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hey historians! Any recommendations for readings on passes being issued to foreign sailors by English governors in the 17th century Caribbean? Not privateering licenses but passes to allow a foreign (in this case Spanish) sailor to leave an island (in this case Nevis). Please and thank you! 🗃️
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Gloucester Project is shortlisted for @timeshighered.bsky.social award of 'Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences' & the good folk at Campus asked us to share our story in the run-up to the award ceremony this week 🤞⚓️🤞🌊🤞 www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/shari...
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Sharing shipwreck stories to rewrite maritime history
The story of the Gloucester shipwreck was too important to stay submerged. Here’s how academics, museum curators and the discoverers of the Gloucester wreck brought it back to the surface
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not sure those outside the university sector in the UK know how bad things have gotten and how much worse they promise to get. So far no indication from the government that they have any interest in halting the collapse.
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Fantastic sale on now @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social with 60% off hardbacks. This includes my monograph The English and French Navies, 1500-1650!
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Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Found this photo of the wonderful paper theatre created when filming content with @clairejowitt.bsky.social for the Gloucester exhibition last year. You can also see some close up shots of it in a video created to showcase the animation created by Eye Film for the exhibition. #history
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