Dr Gul Sen

ONLINE: Happening now, if you are interested in: New Research on Diplomacy in Premodern Eurasia: Practices, Objects, Symbols.
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Research Network Premodern
East Slavic Europe

For registration 👉 eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#earlymodern

The Pirate Menace – Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy by Angus Konstam

This interesting book explores the most notorious pirates of the Golden Age and how their rise and fall can be traced back to the pirate haven of Nassau.

#piratehistory #pirates #history #historybookchat

Spring Talk: Dr Cathryn Pearce - Salvaging Stories of Shipwreck: The Loss of HMS Brazen, 1800, and the Coastal Communities of Brighton and Newhaven - Sussex Past Caught in a winter gale on her maiden voyage for the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary War, HMS Brazen met an untimely end in January - a dramatic story explored in an online evening talk wit...

Looking forward to this! @sussexpast.bsky.social #SussexCoast sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...

Our latest online magazine article explores shipbuilding in the 9th to 11th centuries. Using evidence from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it challenges the idea that King Alfred the Great founded the English navy. 📃

Read now 🔗 : buff.ly/PIpN9ys
#navalhistory #anglosaxon #militaryhistory #medieval #NRS

19th Century image of the Santa Ana, first of her class.

The Santa Ana class were eight 112 gun ships of the line built between 1785 and 1794 at Ferrol and Havana. Santa Ana, Mexicano, Conde de Regla, Salvador del Mundo, Real Carlos, San Hermenegildo, Reina María Luisa and Príncipe de Asturias were larger than any British first-rate ship.🧵
#NavalHistory

Constructing Expertise in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with A. Tunç Şen by Furkan Elmas

Constructing Expertise in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with A. Tunç Şen

👏Warm congratulations to Dr.Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social, Research Director at the Dept.of Ottoman History of @imsforth.bsky.social, on his election as Director of the Institute!
Wishing him every success in this important new role & a highly productive term ahead! 🎉
👉 bit.ly/4rqvijX

Sayın Müdür Bey: I'm sure you'll masterfully manage the institution! 😊

Heartfelt congratulations, Marinos, for your new role!🎉

The article includes Mitchell's several drawings preserved in the British Museum. 2

Dockyards (Naval Dockyards Society Newsletter)

On a remarkable naval career in 1763-73:

Julie Papworth & Roger Dence. ​"Thomas Mitchell - Shipwright, Surveyor and Artist: The Chatham Years." in: Dockyards (Naval Dockyards Society Newsletter), Vol. 30, No. 2 (Dec. 2025): 37-43. 1/

#maritimehistory

The image shows the 17th-century warship Vasa, currently displayed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.

I should add also Vasa, the Swedish warship to my list of the unique and and real historical ships. I'm sure everyone knows her history: sank 1628, salvaged 1956, currently on display at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.

Photo credit, more info: www.vasamuseet.se/en/explore/v...

#maritimehistory

Reviewed today in Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 👍

Also part of #maritimehistory
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Talk and Book Launch featuring Dr Nina Baker OBE - Scottish Maritime Museum Talk and Book Launch: Dr Nina Baker OBE “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea” Scottish Merchant Navy Women Who Died as a Result of Enemy Action…

Scottish Maritime Museum's webpage about my forthcoming talk. I am excited to learn that they have bookings coming in already.
www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/event/talk-a...

Well, only fragments have been survived - still remarkable. On the same link above there is a model of her.

Thank you!

Can you provide the link to this museum?

The Historical Galley is the world's oldest known galley with its original wooden hull built at the end of the 16th century. This 40 m. vessel is not a war galley. She is displayed at the Besiktas Naval Museum Command in Istanbul.

The Historical Galley is the world's oldest known galley with its original wooden hull built at the end of the 16th century. This 40-m. vessel is not a war galley. She is displayed at the Besiktas Naval Museum Command in Istanbul.

👉 denizmuzeleri.dzkk.tsk.tr/v1/besiktas-...

#maritimehistory

The prehistoric Hjortspring Boat is northern Europe’s oldest wooden vessel. It is on display at the National Museum of Denmark.

The prehistoric Hjortspring Boat is northern Europe’s oldest wooden vessel. It is on display at the National Museum of Denmark.

Photo credit and more info:
👉 en.natmus.dk/historical-k...

#maritimehistory #ships

Do you know the story of Mary Ann Patten? Author of #ToTheEdgeOfTheWorld Tilar J. Mazzeo chats to Dr Sam Willis about her incredible journey through treacherous waters for The Mariner's Mirror podcast:
bit.ly/4qY2bDX

‘An absolutely brilliant book’ Dr Sam Willis

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

A continuous favourite amongst readers is Sarah Palmers 'History of the Ports'
doi.org/10.1177/0843...

This article explores port typography & historiography
The author takes issue with suggestions that port history sits uncomfortably at a nexus of local, national & international historiography

The book is now also available on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/00icjxp6 at only £6.25 +P&P.
As before, if you would like a signed copy please message me.
#BookHistory #History #maritime @histbooks-reviews.bsky.social #HistBookChat

This is why it’s bad that student newspaper op-eds are now online, and why it’s bad for people to record undergrad classes. Kids need the privacy to be wrong and learn.

*Call For Papers*

"Institutional Identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages" — seeking papers on how institutions shaped identities across Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.

Deadline: 20 March.

hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

Now revealed: the launch is going to be at the Scottish Maritime Museum. Booking: : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-and-b...

Wonderful to see my “Situating Early Modern Translators: A Mediterranean Epilogue” out in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social ‘On the Move: Mobility and Early Modern Translation’

Massive thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social eds Giancarlo Casale & Ann Thomson!

👉🏽 shorturl.at/TX4wb

On the margins Changing perspectives on land versus sea

This week’s writing from me — on mapping sea versus land, plus some thoughts from my own travels through sea-heavy lives and times

The image shows some colorful ribbon and a yellow flower in a black pot on the table.

A view from the train to the river. It's a rainy weather.

Still colorful #Karneval spirit (despite the grey sky, delayed and overcrowded trains) in every little detail.