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IMHA is a professional association of Scholars. The International Journal of Maritime History is published quarterly, on various dimensions of maritime history www.imha.info

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drhelendoe.bsky.social @drhelendoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Call for papers for online conference on the history of maritime businesswomen. Please circulate. @globalmarhist.bsky.social @robb51.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social @plymprivateer.bsky.social @journalmaritime.bsky.social
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Check out Emilia Syväsalmi's article 'Excitement and prey: Captains’ wives and the experience of marine animals on US whaling ships in the nineteenth century' which was published in February 2022 doi.org/10.1177/0843... #openaccessarticles #maritimehistory
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Excitement and prey: Captains’ wives and the experience of marine animals on US whaling ships in the nineteenth century - Emilia Syväsalmi, 2022
Captains’ wives, who travelled with their husbands on US whaling ships in the middle of the nineteenth century, encountered marine animals during their journeys...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why not revisit 'Saving souls from the depths: The society for rescuing the drowning (Zhengnitang) in late imperial China' by Ronald C. Po which was published as part of our February 2026 issue of IJMH doi.org/10.1177/0843... #openaccessarticle #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Check out one of our latest open access articles The corvette Africa: An episode on Känsö quarantine station 1817 by Oscar Karlsson doi.org/10.1177/0843...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The @journalmaritime.bsky.social has a new special issue on "The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics". Check out the introduction by @lukasschemper.bsky.social and Henning Trüper: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ijha/38/1
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International Journal of Maritime History - Volume 38, Number 1
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Check out 'Methods for measuring the wartime economies of European shipping, c. 1750–1815' by Gustav Ängeby doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Check out 'Sketching configurations of imperial sovereignty through nineteenth-century maritime safety' by Lukas Schemper which was part of the first publication of this years International Journal of Maritime History doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Check out 'How the Portuguese saw their maritime force: Photography of merchant and war vessels in Portugal before the First World War' by Hugo Silveira Pereira doi.org/10.1177/0843... This study investigates photography's role in portraying and communicating the evolution of the Portuguese fleet
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How the Portuguese saw their maritime force: Photography of merchant and war vessels in Portugal before the First World War - Hugo Silveira Pereira, 2026
Starting in the mid nineteenth century, Portugal began modernising its merchant fleet and Navy, lagging a few decades behind other European nations. Simultaneou...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Check out the open access article 'On board French imperial liners: Four transformative shades of intimacy in the Age of Steam' by François Drémeaux which was part of our latest issue of the International Journal of Maritime History doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Check out our latest article 'Towards a bottom-up history of maritime China' by Robert J. Antony doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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Towards a bottom-up history of maritime China - Robert J. Antony, 2026
This article proposes a methodological framework for writing a bottom-up history of maritime China by confronting the structural silences of the imperial archiv...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Next port of call: Tallinn, Estonia it is only two years until our next Congress, which will be held in Tallinn. Please mark your calendar for Monday, 29 May 2028 through Thursday, 1 June 2028 for the main Congress, to be held at the Estonian Maritime Museum. More info:
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Letter from the International Maritime History Association - Ingo Heidbrink, 2026
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Check out our recently published Open Access article 'The corvette Africa: An episode on Känsö quarantine station 1817' -
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The corvette Africa: An episode on Känsö quarantine station 1817 - Oscar Karlsson, 2026
This article examines the 1817 voyage of the Ottoman corvette Africa from Alexandria to Sweden, focusing on the significant challenges faced by the quarantine c...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Open Access 🔓️ The subjectification of the nineteenth-century maritime spectator: Shipboard diaries as maritime history by Felicity Jensz, Eeva Langeveld, Henrike Steltner, and André Krischer
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Book Review: The Sound Toll at Elsinore: Politics, Shipping and the Collection of Duties 1429–1857 by Leos Müller doi.org/10.1177/0843... The Sound Toll books are a standard source for any historian interested in early modern European trade and shipping.
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Check out the article 'Maritime passage, the Montreux Convention (1936) and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine' from 2023 by Glen Segell This article was published as part of Volume 35.
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🔓️ Open Access 🔓️ The subjectification of the nineteenth-century maritime spectator: Shipboard diaries as maritime history by Felicity Jensz, Eeva Langeveld, et al. doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🔓️ Open Access article European shipbuilding and ship repairs outside Europe: Problems, questions and some hypotheses by Cátia Antunes doi.org/10.1177/0843... This special issue explains how and why European maritime powers resorted to ship repair and shipbuilding overseas
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
‘These peaceable times are the devil’: Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815–1825 by Martin Wilcox was published as part of Volume 26, Issue 3 (2014) doi.org/10.1177/0843... Why not check this and other articles from Volume 26 out? #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Check our 'Sea and Sadness: Porteño Identity and Maritime Imagery in Tango Lyrics' by J.N.F.M. à Campo which was published as part of Volume 22, Issue 1. doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Open Access 🔓️ The anatomy of a raid: The character and methods of seaborne violence in the Mediterranean at the first millennium (ca. 800–1100) by David Romney Smith doi.org/10.1177/0843... This paper aims to construct a step-by-step operations model of a sea raid #maritimehistory
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Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This one, but only because my husband wrote it, so I'm completely biased 🤭 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Port and City of Ostend and the Process of State Consolidation in the Southern Netherlands in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Geopolitical Approach - Michael-W. Serruys, 2007
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Turning bandits into ‘good citizens’: Coastal violence on the south coast of the Ming Empire in the fifteenth century by Sander Molenaar was published as part of a forum in Volume 32, Issue 3 doi.org/10.1177/0843... Issue 3 can be found here - journals.sagepub.com/toc/ijha/32/3 #maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The Cinque Ports and Great Yarmouth in dispute in 1316: Maritime violence, royal mediation and political language by Jiazhu Hu 🔓️ doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Seafaring Lives at the crossroads of Mediterranean maritime history by Apostolos Delis doi.org/10.1177/0843... This paper is about Seafaring Lives in Transition, Mediterranean Maritime Labour & Shipping, 1850s–1920s (SeaLiT), an international research project funded by the ERC Starting Grant 2016
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
History of the Ports 🔓️ by Sarah Palmer was published as part of Volume 32, Issue 2 It explores port typography and historiography. doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sketching configurations of imperial sovereignty through nineteenth-century maritime safety by Lukas Schemper 🔓️ doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The rescuing sovereign at sea 🔓️ by Lukas Schemper and Henning Trüper doi.org/10.1177/0843... This was published as part of a forum in Volume 38. issue 1
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Check out '‘A pellet of an island in the vastness of water and sky’: Nan’ao Island 南澳島 and Imperial China's Longue Durée' by J. Travis Shutz which has been published today doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
'Restricting boat refugees at sea – rescuing the sovereign? The response to boat refugees across time and space, 1979–2001' by Irial Glynn considers how notions of sovereignty and solidarity influenced the response to boat refugees at sea between 1979 and 2001. doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritime
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Check out one of our mote cited articles 'The Jamaica discipline and the epochal nature of English Atlantic privateering and piracy, 1660–1726' by Nathan T. Jopling doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory #piracy
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The Jamaica discipline and the epochal nature of English Atlantic privateering and piracy, 1660–1726 - Nathan T. Jopling, 2023
The idea of the ‘Jamaica discipline’ suggests that all Anglo-American privateering and pirate groups operating between 1660 and 1726 were linked via a common se...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Which International Journal of Maritime History publication is your favourite? Tell us the title and why — your pick might be featured as part of next weeks posts! #MaritimeHistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Check out the recently published Research Article 'Allies, enemies or a bit of both? The complicated lives of British merchants in the China of the 1850s: The case of George Stormont Spreckley' by Adrian Nicholas Harvey doi.org/10.1177/0843... #maritimehistory
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MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal History Portsmouth @navalhistory.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Current students on our MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal History distance-learning course have access to the International Journal of Maritime History, and several alumni have published articles in it! This looks like a fascinating book. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ahead of the publication of Issue 2 of Volume 38, why not consider purchasing a membership with the IMHA? As part of your membership, you will receive 4 physical journals, as well as online access to all of the publications. Details are available on our website -
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Discover the depth and breadth of maritime history with every issue. As a member of the International Maritime History Association, you’ll receive four quarterly issues of the International Journal…
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Check out the recent review of Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750 by Matthew Neufeld The review by Eliška Bujoková states that the book 'makes a timely contribution to naval history' doi.org/10.1177/0843...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Check out a recent article which has been published as part of the International Journal of Maritime History The English in Livorno: Portuguese colonial goods and cross-cultural trade in the early seventeenth century by João Gabriel Covolan Silva
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The English in Livorno: Portuguese colonial goods and cross-cultural trade in the early seventeenth century - João Gabriel Covolan Silva, 2026
This article examines the role of the trade in Portuguese colonial commodities and the interactions amongst English merchants and corsairs with the Portuguese c...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Check out one of our latest Open Access articles titled Methods for measuring the wartime economies of European shipping, c. 1750–1815 by Gustav Ängeby doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sarah Palmer's History of the Port's remains one of our most read articles published as part of the International Journal of Maritime History. You can check Sarah's article and our others out via the following link -
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
‼️UPCOMING EVENT‼️ New Researchers in Maritime History Conference, 17-18 April 2026 at the University of Southampton. Organised by the British Commission for Maritime History The 2026 programme reflects both the depth and diversity of current research in the field.
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Wishing all of our followers a Happy Easter 🐣
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Mallory Hope's Article 'Risk and Uncertainty in France's Atlantic Slave Trade' examines the insurance of slave-trading ships in France during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Check out Nathan T. Jopling article which argues that the Jamaica discipline is not applicable to seventeenth-century privateers, but rather creates a fundamental misunderstanding of them. doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Check out Phillip Reid article 'Risk, Uncertainty and the British Atlantic Merchant Ship as a Technology for Profit, 1600–1800 ' which was publish in October 2023
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out Nuno Saldanha article 'William and Francis Warden at Lisbon's Royal Shipyard (1715–1761): English design on Portuguese naval architecture and shipbuilding' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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William and Francis Warden at Lisbon's Royal Shipyard (1715–1761): English design on Portuguese naval architecture and shipbuilding - Nuno Saldanha, 2026
This paper examines the work of two English shipbuilders, William and Francis Warden, who, at the behest of the Portuguese Crown, served as master shipwrights a...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Did you know as a member of the IMHA you have online access to our previous publications? For example: 'Whatever happened to those villains of the Indian seas? The happy retirement of the Madagascar pirates, 1698–1721' by Ryan Holroyd published in Vol 29, Issue 4
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Check out our current Most Read article (as of 13/03/26) titled 'Encompassing the Earth: Magellan's voyage from its political context to its expansion of knowledge' by Matteo Salonia doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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Encompassing the Earth: Magellan's voyage from its political context to its expansion of knowledge - Matteo Salonia, 2022
Between 1519 and 1522, the Magellan–Elcano expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the world. This contribution offers a new interpretation of the po...
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The journal has recently published the following article: The trade of traditional medicinal materials between China and Japan (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) by Zhang Lanxing 张兰星 doi.org/10.1177/0843... Read this to find out more about trade conducted between China and Japan.
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Check out a recent open access article published as part of the International Journal of Maritime History titled 'Methods for measuring the wartime economies of European shipping, c. 1750–1815' by Gustav Ängeby
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Check out Callum Easton review of Patronage and the British Navy, 1775–1815 by Catherine S. Beck which has been published as part of the recent issue of the International Journal of Maritime History doi.org/10.1177/0843... #Maritimehistory
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Check out the February 2026 Issue of the International Journal of Maritime History journals.sagepub.com/toc/IJH/curr... The International Journal of Maritime History welcomes all readers to the first issue of 2026.
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