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/
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-redding
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
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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...
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...
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...
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.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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...
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...
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Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
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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)
6 fantastic books out 1/12/25 (all £42.99 in pb edn)
Looking 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... ⚓️
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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)
6 fantastic books out 1/12/25 (all £42.99 in pb edn)
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
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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...
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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October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
Wonderful to contribute to this with Claire. New article in @uk.theconversation.com
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...
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.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Wonderful to contribute to this with Claire. New article in @uk.theconversation.com
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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
Read more👉 bit.ly/3KnUdV3
#ShippingForecast #History #Radio
@ueahistory.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
Read more👉 bit.ly/3KnUdV3
#ShippingForecast #History #Radio
@ueahistory.bsky.social
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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 ⚓⚓⚓
August 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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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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!)🚌🚌
July 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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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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#maritimehistory
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory
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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
For project info: www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
For project info: www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk
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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!😋
June 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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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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
May 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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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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
Looking forward to going over the border to sunny Suffolk! All welcome! #EastAnglia ⚓ #maritimehistory
Home | Elmswell History Group
www.elmswell-history.org.uk
May 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
Looking forward to going over the border to sunny Suffolk! All welcome! #EastAnglia ⚓ #maritimehistory
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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 🤞
April 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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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.
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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.
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.
Recognise this one @clairejowitt.bsky.social - spotted in King’s Lynn
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Recognise this one @clairejowitt.bsky.social - spotted in King’s Lynn
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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!)
March 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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!)
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...
More information here www.theholtsociety.org/events-activ...
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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February 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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...
More information here www.theholtsociety.org/events-activ...
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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 🗃️
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️
Congratulations to Lewis Wade (@wadehistory.bsky.social), winner of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize for *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France* – announced at the SSFH (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) Douglas Johnson Lecture yesterday
January 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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 🗃️
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️
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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!)
December 29, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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!)
The tree is up in the Redding household. Featuring this beauty from last year’s Gloucester exhibition ⚓️🌊🎄
December 8, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The tree is up in the Redding household. Featuring this beauty from last year’s Gloucester exhibition ⚓️🌊🎄
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Congratulations to @clairejowitt.bsky.social and @benjaminredding.bsky.social on further recognition of their brilliant maritime history project #gloucester1682
Delighted @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social with the Gloucester Project team made it to #THEAwards last night …. we had a lovely time! www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Congratulations to @clairejowitt.bsky.social and @benjaminredding.bsky.social on further recognition of their brilliant maritime history project #gloucester1682
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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 🌊🩺🩸
@benjaminredding.bsky.social on Gloucester wreck 1682 contracted to boydellandbrewer.com .... back at sea with royal physician Dr Scarburgh ... huzza! huzza! huzza! #amwriting 🌊🩺🩸
November 30, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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 🌊🩺🩸
@benjaminredding.bsky.social on Gloucester wreck 1682 contracted to boydellandbrewer.com .... back at sea with royal physician Dr Scarburgh ... huzza! huzza! huzza! #amwriting 🌊🩺🩸