Professor Claire Jowitt
@clairejowitt.bsky.social
Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-jowitt-416943160/
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-jowitt-416943160/
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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... ⚓️
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Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions
Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Colombia recovers first treasures from 300-year-old ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’ | CNN
The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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***Cover reveal*** for Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited by Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller & published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social which will be out on 6/5/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Can't wait! www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
Can't wait! www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
***Cover reveal*** for Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited by Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller & published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social which will be out on 6/5/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Can't wait! www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
Can't wait! www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
Looking forward to speaking about #Gloucesterwreck at 'Fragmented Worlds, Share Histories @memrn.bsky.social Winter Conference, taking place 14-16 November ... still time to sign up to attend online (but better be quick!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chase-memr...
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Looking forward to speaking about #Gloucesterwreck at 'Fragmented Worlds, Share Histories @memrn.bsky.social Winter Conference, taking place 14-16 November ... still time to sign up to attend online (but better be quick!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chase-memr...
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...
Purchased today as part of a 6 yr old's birthday pressie but now strongly tempted to plaster them all over MOI ... 🎁🚀👩🚀 #temptattoo
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Purchased today as part of a 6 yr old's birthday pressie but now strongly tempted to plaster them all over MOI ... 🎁🚀👩🚀 #temptattoo
Reposted by Professor Claire Jowitt
Final preparations are now underway in the MEMRN team for our second Winter Conference in a few weeks time. If you’d like to beam in to any of our exceptional panels, please register via Eventbrite. All are welcome!
There is still time to join us online for our 2025 Winter Conference. Our panel sessions will be available to view on Microsoft Teams for free - for everybody!
The full schedule is available via our website and you can register to join in via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...
The full schedule is available via our website and you can register to join in via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...
CHASE MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 - Online Attendance
Online stream
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Final preparations are now underway in the MEMRN team for our second Winter Conference in a few weeks time. If you’d like to beam in to any of our exceptional panels, please register via Eventbrite. All are welcome!
Glad it's independent study week (aka reading week) at UEA ... phew! Today's joy is catching up with all the Organisational Development & Professional Learning Courses I am behind on (reminders sent at midnight each night it seems!!) plus interspersed with reading a bit of this beauty ...
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Glad it's independent study week (aka reading week) at UEA ... phew! Today's joy is catching up with all the Organisational Development & Professional Learning Courses I am behind on (reminders sent at midnight each night it seems!!) plus interspersed with reading a bit of this beauty ...
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
'Statement' signet ring from Artemier who 'focus on unusual stone cuts & unexpected compositions' ... posted without comment ... www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
October 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
'Statement' signet ring from Artemier who 'focus on unusual stone cuts & unexpected compositions' ... posted without comment ... www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
Reposted by Professor Claire Jowitt
James' book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages, is now available in the Routledge warehouse, www.routledge.com/Maritime-Mus...
A pbk edition will be issued soon. It is published in the series Maritime Humanities, Gen'l Eds @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer.
A pbk edition will be issued soon. It is published in the series Maritime Humanities, Gen'l Eds @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer.
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English ...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
James' book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages, is now available in the Routledge warehouse, www.routledge.com/Maritime-Mus...
A pbk edition will be issued soon. It is published in the series Maritime Humanities, Gen'l Eds @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer.
A pbk edition will be issued soon. It is published in the series Maritime Humanities, Gen'l Eds @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer.
Reposted by Professor Claire Jowitt
Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
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Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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)
Oh yes ... it's tonight!!! My favourite show ... plus little drinkie first 🍸🍹🥂
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh yes ... it's tonight!!! My favourite show ... plus little drinkie first 🍸🍹🥂
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 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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... ⚓️
Looking forward to talking all things #gloucesterwreck on Wednesday this week in Loddon ... All welcome ⚓⚓⚓
October 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Looking forward to talking all things #gloucesterwreck on Wednesday this week in Loddon ... All welcome ⚓⚓⚓
For the weekend crowd! ICYMI ...
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 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
For the weekend crowd! ICYMI ...
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I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths
On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …
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October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
Too rich for my blood (£15550!!!!!) but rather taken with this #seafever signet ring 'A Sailor's Supersition' ⚓⚓⚓
www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Too rich for my blood (£15550!!!!!) but rather taken with this #seafever signet ring 'A Sailor's Supersition' ⚓⚓⚓
www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
www.libertylondon.com/uk/18ct-gold...
Reposted by Professor Claire Jowitt
Try this link for the Maritime Humanities series - www.routledge.com/Maritime-Hum...
There are 8 published titles with 2 more in production; these are being added and should be visible soon. Feel free to DM me for more information!
There are 8 published titles with 2 more in production; these are being added and should be visible soon. Feel free to DM me for more information!
Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press
Routledge & CRC Press Series: Early modern oceans not only provided temperate climates, resources, and opportunities for commercial exchange, they also played a central role in cultural life
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October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Try this link for the Maritime Humanities series - www.routledge.com/Maritime-Hum...
There are 8 published titles with 2 more in production; these are being added and should be visible soon. Feel free to DM me for more information!
There are 8 published titles with 2 more in production; these are being added and should be visible soon. Feel free to DM me for more information!
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 11:13 AM
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...
Salts! Ahoy ... All about conservation of the Mary Rose with Eleanor Schofield is on this morning on 'Life Scientific' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... ⚓
BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose
Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on conserving a 500-year-old wooden warship.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Salts! Ahoy ... All about conservation of the Mary Rose with Eleanor Schofield is on this morning on 'Life Scientific' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... ⚓
Reposted by Professor Claire Jowitt
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
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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
Ooh ... excited to get my tix for this for next spring! Now on general sale @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
Looks a great production! 🎭
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
Looks a great production! 🎭
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Ooh ... excited to get my tix for this for next spring! Now on general sale @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
Looks a great production! 🎭
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
Looks a great production! 🎭