The Governance of the Atlantic Port Cities in the The Middle Ages, a Research Group of the University of Cantabria, seeks chapter proposals on the topic “Criminal Cultures in the Atlantic city and beyond in the Middle Ages.” The association of the Middle Ages with the ideas of regression, darkness and universal stagnation permeates the current collective imaginary about this historical period to the point that any injustice, cruelty or barbarity is branded as “medieval”. It is widely believed that medieval society was subjected to the powerful people, without any structure of regula ..read more

University of Oxford’s Transnational & Global History Seminar invites papers for its annual conference. This year’s conference, which will take place in-person and online, will be on the theme of “Colonialism, Conflict & Commemoration.” The deadline to submit an abstract is April 15. Abstracts can address, but are not limited to the following subthemes: Settler colonialism: Exploring the enduring impacts and contemporary manifestations of settler colonial projects. Asymmetric Conflicts: Reckoning with occluded histories of irregular warfare, civil wars, counter-insurgencies, wars o ..read more

World History Connected has been an affiliate of the World History Association since 2003. While the submission of individual articles on any topic germane to world history are welcome at any time, the journal also invites papers suitable for a Forum, a set of 4 to 8 curated articles showcasing innovative research and the scholarship of teaching in the interdisciplinary field of world history. This Call for Papers invites contributions to the anticipated Fall 2024 issue’s Forum devoted to “Piracy In World History,” guest edited by Ian Abbey, Prairie View A&M University. Contribut ..read more

Last summer, I took advantage of camping at Awenda Provincial Park to drag my family to Discovery Harbour. This was a place I had known about since my teens, when I was sailing tall ships. In fact, I had applied for jobs there several times, trying to get jobs sailing on their two tall ships HM Ships Tecumseh and Bee. This seemed a brilliant opportunity, however, and so we went in. First off, despite being the summer we were one of only a few visitors there, and I was surprised how calm things were, despite it being the middle of July. I very much hope that it gets more visitors than ..read more

Special issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies CFP: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century   In November 2022, the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies held a two-day international symposium on “The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century.”  Intentionally broad in scope, the symposium sought to cross-map nineteenth-century studies with key currents of the blue humanities, the Black and circum-Atlantic, Indian Ocean studies, oceanic ecologies, post- and decolonialism, maritime globalization, and beyond.  Building on and expanding out from this event,  ..read more

A couple of weeks ago, the family and I went to vist Collingwood, Ontario for a few days.  These days, Collingwood is best known for Blue Mountain and Skiing (which started during the Second World War, and whose supporters in the 1950s included many former Luftwaffe officers in the 1950s, it turns out. Another side of Collingwood, now long ended, was its history as a shipbuilding port.  Collingwood is on Nottawasaga Bay, on the South-west edge of Georgian Bay, and so has access to Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, and to Lake Superior and the rest of the World via the Welland ..read more

This post is to share the latest wonderful resource from the generous Roy Metcalfe, who has gone to Kew and taken some more photos. These photos are from ADM 234/1 BR 1 (1951), the earliest BR1 catalogue that Kew has available in the catalogue. It’s also the first entry in the ADM 234 series. As you can see, it is distinctly different from the BR1 (1968) that I’ve been transcribing and showing lots of pictures from. First, the individual titles seem to have fewer volumes, but also just from this layout you can see that the establishment for who can claim what is in the same part of the documen ..read more

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces its Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are contributing to the development of ocean history through their scholarship. Candidates must have recently been awarded a PhD (within the previous 8 years) or have begun the work while enr ..read more

During the last few years, maritime history has gained from methodological innovations in historical research, learned from other disciplines, and spread into the areas of Eastern, Southeastern, and Eurasian History. The Max Weber Stiftung Georgia Branch Office, which is, among others, devoted to the transnational and international history of the Black Sea Region, aims to take up these discussions and further develop them. While these maritime spaces and their navigation under the Russian or Ottoman Empire have already become the subject of comparatively extensive trans-imperial or global hist ..read more

Partially, this is a quick update to say that I’ve finshed 71 pages (of 98 and a bit) of BR1 (1968) and yes, the OCR technique that I’ve been using really speeds things up. Only OCRing the volume titles section (Column 4) has really simplified the task, and cleaned u the actual product of the OCR, although when individual titles run on multiple lines, it can get a bit messy. Plus the OCR website I’ve been does some annoying things with the punctuation and spacing. For example it’ll use H /B instead of H/B, and removing spaces other places- particularly where numbers are followed by letters. It ..read more