A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in…
CFP: Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550 – 1850
The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in these fields together to present research and create connections across an area of emergent research. Much traditional scholarship on maritime healthcare has focused…
Application Deadline: PhD Studentship: ‘Disability’ and Stuart Seafarers, 1600-1750
This project focuses on how impaired Stuart seafarers became identified as ‘disabled’. Engaging with critical disabilities studies where ‘disability’ is understood as a historically and culturally variable category, the project explores how early modern attitudes towards specific physical and sensorial impairments in effect disabled Stuart naval personnel, changing their lived experiences through this categorisation. Researching the…
