Dr Anna McKay
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Dr Anna McKay
@drannaloismckay.bsky.social
Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @leverhulme.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social

PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
..and recently published online is a new @liverpooluni.bsky.social Centre for Innovation in Education case study detailing my 2nd year History module, 'Investigating Journalism: British Newspapers from the Spectator to Stead', which I am so pleased with: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
..I had an adventure at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social later in March presenting my 'Interdisciplinary Walks' project to a very lovely crowd of researchers based at Durham and Leicester. More about the walks project here: www.leicias.le.ac.uk?cat=3
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
...before a week-long visiting fellowship at @muahi.bsky.social Maynooth University in March, which was SO excellent and another great chance to think about Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Famine
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
...then I finally got to carry out some in-person research at The National Archives of Ireland and visited Dún Laoghaire, where convict hulks were moored from 1825-1837
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM