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Graham Moore
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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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Over 20,000 item descriptions have been added to REQ 2 (Court of Requests proceedings) since March 2024. An absolute treasure trove for Tudor historians. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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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...
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August 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
July 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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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
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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)

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June 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
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June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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!
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?” 🤷🏻‍♂️
June 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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‼️🐠 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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May 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📣 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

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April 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
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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April 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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.
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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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
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March 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
enjoying this devious polar bear today, in John Seller’s Atlas Maritimus (1698)

[TNA, FO 925/4111]
March 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This looks to be a fantastic #CoastalHistory talk for anyone near London!
March 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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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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March 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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!
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March 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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this pigeon is also going to The National Archives today
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.

Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8
Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives
The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both!
(And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)
Congratulations @mooregraham.bsky.social on a successful viva yesterday! @rohandroy.bsky.social & I very much enjoyed discussing your #pirate thesis. & congrats to supervisors Richard Blakemore & TNA ... well done Dr Moore ... 👏👏👏
February 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This week! Come hear me chat about d'Eon's many interactions with the English Law Courts this Friday 14 February.
Want to hear about (some of) my Chevalier d'Eon discoveries among The National Archives' vast legal collections? Well, you're in luck. I'm giving an online talk on Valentines Day 2025 to chat all about them. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cheval...
The Chevalier d’Eon in the English Law Courts
Discover the life of the remarkable18th-century transgender spy
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February 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Very kind words - thank you, Dave!
I enjoyed reading @mooregraham.bsky.social 's open access article on English piracy and the Newfoundland cod fishery over the weekend (I'm working through a rather excessive periodical backlog) - see www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - and found the way it linked...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An #18thcentury legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle about identity.

🔓 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀

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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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December 18, 2024 at 9:31 AM