Elaine Murphy

CFP for New Researchers in Maritime History Conference to be held in Southampton in April 2026 - always a great conference - share widely

Phineas Pett (b. #otd 1 Nov 1570, buried 21 Aug 1647), Shipbuilder and first Master of the Shipwrights' Company. Unknown artist, c. 1612. (NPG)

Looking up at figureheads in the Box Museum

Getting ready to teach in @historyplymouth.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social Foulston Room at the Box this morning - what fun archival delights await

Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships

🎉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/...

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Just spotted this is on tonight - I will hear nothing bad spoken of this film

Plymouth History graduation

A few of our @plymuni.bsky.social class of 2025 graduating history students yesterday with Dr Simon Topping

A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....

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Room filling up

Old Plymouth society programme card

Ops card with details of my talk

Room is filling up for my talk at the Old Plymouth Society this afternoon in Mutley Baptist Church

A view from Central Park in Plymouth

A beautiful evening in Central Park in Plymouth

Conference poster - Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, 30-31 October at the University of Exeter

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...

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/

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...

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...

Clive Charlton speaking in Calstock

Programme for event

Clive Charlton is opening up the South West Maritime History Society day in Calstock to a jam packed hall

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

Dr Lucy Huggins is now speaking about maritime mobility in the 18th C at #maritimebritain conference

Title slide

Picture of Gloucester sinking

Claire Jowitt speaking

Kicking off #maritimebritain conference with @clairejowitt.bsky.social speaking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682

1st keynote! @plymprivateer.bsky.social on Women & British Warships in the c17 ... huzzah! 👭⚓️👭⚓️👭

Picture of Plymouth dock in 1694

Dr Chris Ware speaking about Plymouth dockyard at #maritimeBritain - fabulous 1694 picture of the dockyard

& we're off! 1st paper at #maritimebritain conference on maritime predation in the narrow seas from Dr Robert Blakemore & a forthcoming book! 🏴‍☠️⚓️

Conference programme

Conference programme

Conference programme

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

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...

The Robert Roberts tea is going down nicely in it

Mug with a picture of Oliver Cromwell on it

Oliver P - Cromwell’s signature on a mug

O Cromwell - Cromwell la signature on a mug

I’m supping fine Irish brand tea in my Ollie mug in honour of the occasion

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS TODAY!! 📝

The Black Sheep soap box

Soap in the shape of a black sheep

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

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...

I’m speaking about women and the Rn at the South West Maritime History society’s even in Calstick on 20 September- all welcome

National library of Ireland exterior

Sphere outside the library Tcd

Dublin for some research and the sun is shining