Elaine Murphy
@plymprivateer.bsky.social
17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
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Phineas Pett (b. #otd 1 Nov 1570, buried 21 Aug 1647), Shipbuilder and first Master of the Shipwrights' Company. Unknown artist, c. 1612. (NPG)
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phineas Pett (b. #otd 1 Nov 1570, buried 21 Aug 1647), Shipbuilder and first Master of the Shipwrights' Company. Unknown artist, c. 1612. (NPG)
Getting ready to teach in @historyplymouth.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social Foulston Room at the Box this morning - what fun archival delights await
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Getting ready to teach in @historyplymouth.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social Foulston Room at the Box this morning - what fun archival delights await
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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Just spotted this is on tonight - I will hear nothing bad spoken of this film
a man in a hooded jacket is walking in the fog in front of a building .
ALT: a man in a hooded jacket is walking in the fog in front of a building .
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just spotted this is on tonight - I will hear nothing bad spoken of this film
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A few of our @plymuni.bsky.social class of 2025 graduating history students yesterday with Dr Simon Topping
October 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A few of our @plymuni.bsky.social class of 2025 graduating history students yesterday with Dr Simon Topping
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A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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Room is filling up for my talk at the Old Plymouth Society this afternoon in Mutley Baptist Church
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Room is filling up for my talk at the Old Plymouth Society this afternoon in Mutley Baptist Church
A beautiful evening in Central Park in Plymouth
October 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A beautiful evening in Central Park in Plymouth
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Registration is now open! Join us this Halloween for a conference full of (historical) blood, conflict and violence 🩸We're hugely grateful to all who have submitted proposals and can't wait to see you all soon! 🗡️
Keep an eye out for the full programme, and register here: forms.gle/be4TAxmG9SVX...
Keep an eye out for the full programme, and register here: forms.gle/be4TAxmG9SVX...
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Registration is now open! Join us this Halloween for a conference full of (historical) blood, conflict and violence 🩸We're hugely grateful to all who have submitted proposals and can't wait to see you all soon! 🗡️
Keep an eye out for the full programme, and register here: forms.gle/be4TAxmG9SVX...
Keep an eye out for the full programme, and register here: forms.gle/be4TAxmG9SVX...
If you are in Plymouth on 17 Oct I'm speaking about 'Plymouth Women and the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail' at the Old Plymouth Society. The talk is in the afternoon at Spurgeon Hall in Mutley. Details online here: oldplymouthsociety.net/events/
September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you are in Plymouth on 17 Oct I'm speaking about 'Plymouth Women and the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail' at the Old Plymouth Society. The talk is in the afternoon at Spurgeon Hall in Mutley. Details online here: oldplymouthsociety.net/events/
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Our @plymuni.bsky.social colleague Dr Darren Aoki is making the news with his research into Japanese Canadians - Read the full story here: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Agents of their own story: How Japanese Canadians in Lethbridge found their own way
During WWII, thousands of Japanese Canadians were forced from their homes in British Columbia. Many ended up on Alberta’s sugar beet farms. What happened next is a matter of fascination for many in th...
www.cbc.ca
September 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Our @plymuni.bsky.social colleague Dr Darren Aoki is making the news with his research into Japanese Canadians - Read the full story here: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Delighted to be in Calstock to speak at the South West Maritime History Society event today
September 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Delighted to be in Calstock to speak at the South West Maritime History Society event today
Dr Richard Blakemore speaking about Precarity and Opportunity in seafaring careers, 1650-1750 at #martimebritain conference
September 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Dr Richard Blakemore speaking about Precarity and Opportunity in seafaring careers, 1650-1750 at #martimebritain conference
Dr Lucy Huggins is now speaking about maritime mobility in the 18th C at #maritimebritain conference
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Dr Lucy Huggins is now speaking about maritime mobility in the 18th C at #maritimebritain conference
Kicking off #maritimebritain conference with @clairejowitt.bsky.social speaking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682
September 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Kicking off #maritimebritain conference with @clairejowitt.bsky.social speaking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682
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1st keynote! @plymprivateer.bsky.social on Women & British Warships in the c17 ... huzzah! 👭⚓️👭⚓️👭
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
1st keynote! @plymprivateer.bsky.social on Women & British Warships in the c17 ... huzzah! 👭⚓️👭⚓️👭
Dr Chris Ware speaking about Plymouth dockyard at #maritimeBritain - fabulous 1694 picture of the dockyard
September 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Dr Chris Ware speaking about Plymouth dockyard at #maritimeBritain - fabulous 1694 picture of the dockyard
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& we're off! 1st paper at #maritimebritain conference on maritime predation in the narrow seas from Dr Robert Blakemore & a forthcoming book! 🏴☠️⚓️
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
& we're off! 1st paper at #maritimebritain conference on maritime predation in the narrow seas from Dr Robert Blakemore & a forthcoming book! 🏴☠️⚓️
Delighted to be at the Maritime Britain conference in Southampton this week with some great sounding papers @clairejowitt.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Delighted to be at the Maritime Britain conference in Southampton this week with some great sounding papers @clairejowitt.bsky.social
I have a new planner for the year ahead - it gladdens my rubber duck loving heart
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I have a new planner for the year ahead - it gladdens my rubber duck loving heart
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The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects.
www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...
www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...
South-Sweden Probate Inventory Database, 1570–1860
Lund University. Both labourers and farmers improved their material living standards – as measured by the contents of probate inventories – but the labouring households’ ownership of means of producti...
www.lusem.lu.se
September 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects.
www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...
www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...
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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS TODAY!! 📝
Last few days to register your interest in the Maritime Britain End of Project Conference - deadline for proposals to speak is 1/9/25 ⚓⚓⚓
eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
& conference organiser @medievalmariner.bsky.social is now here!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
& conference organiser @medievalmariner.bsky.social is now here!
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS TODAY!! 📝
I’ve been gifted an awesome ‘The Back Sheep’ soap in the shape of a wee black sheep - it smells lovely and will be getting a run out - great & fun Irish product
August 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve been gifted an awesome ‘The Back Sheep’ soap in the shape of a wee black sheep - it smells lovely and will be getting a run out - great & fun Irish product
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We are hiring! Lloyd's Register Foundation is looking for an experienced Communications Manager.
They will provide communications support for our two centres: the newly launched Global Safety Evidence Centre and the Heritage Centre.
Apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
They will provide communications support for our two centres: the newly launched Global Safety Evidence Centre and the Heritage Centre.
Apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We are hiring! Lloyd's Register Foundation is looking for an experienced Communications Manager.
They will provide communications support for our two centres: the newly launched Global Safety Evidence Centre and the Heritage Centre.
Apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
They will provide communications support for our two centres: the newly launched Global Safety Evidence Centre and the Heritage Centre.
Apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
I’m speaking about women and the Rn at the South West Maritime History society’s even in Calstick on 20 September- all welcome
August 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’m speaking about women and the Rn at the South West Maritime History society’s even in Calstick on 20 September- all welcome