Visitors to Salem, Massachusetts are likely to make a beeline for anything related to the celebrated witch trials. A few older tourists will notice the sites connected to Nathaniel Hawthorne (my generation was probably the last to read The Scarlet Letter in school as an obligatory part of the American canon). Both the witch trials […]
Over Thanksgiving, I had the privilege to participate in what was apparently the first ever conference devoted to Charles Dibdin the Elder (1745-1814). In what follows, I will not reproduce information easily enough discovered on the conference website, nor will I suggest that the conference reached a consensus (it did not). There were some shared […]
The University of Portsmouth and the National Museum of the Royal Navy wish to appoint two new Lecturer/Research Fellows in order to expand their existing successful range of research collaborations. The successful appointees will assist in the development of new museum galleries and work with others to develop and launch a new Masters degree programme in Naval […]
So reads a famous signpost at the port town of Bluff, which is located on the south coast of New Zealand’s South Island. With little between it and the Roaring Forties, Bluff was indeed “one of the farthest corners of the British Empire.” A key inlet for British migrants from the 1860s and a key […]
Portsmouth University, March 31st – April 2nd 2015 A call for papers has been announced for the Social History Society’s annual conference to be held on 31st March – 2nd April 2015 at the University of Portsmouth. The annual Social History Society Conference is the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK. Proposals […]
Most people wouldn’t associate northern Indiana with shipwrecks, but Lake Michigan has its share of them. The J.D. Marshall sank in 1911, where it remains, just a stone’s throw offshore from the Indiana Dunes State Park. It was a “sand sucker,” employed in pulling up sand from the lake bed for industrial use. The J.D. […]
