Dr Lucy Huggins

🚨Yay! The website for our project ‘English Merchant Shipping, Trade, & Maritime Communities […] is live! 🎉. L👀k! Come and see what we are up to and read our first blog post!

The Maritime Britain project has recently teamed up with the Lloyd's Register Foundation to map its first Register Book (1764-66). You can search and map this resource here: maritimebritain.org/english_mercha…

@CarolineBarkus Hi Caroline, thank you for this! What a lovely message to receive. Ah yes, James Charlick, a young apprentice at the time. I hope that your daughter has a wonderful trip to the court!

@lucy_huggins Found your interesting PHd thesis on Old Bailey proceedings. My daughter is going on a school trip to the Bailey and I told her about our ancestor who was sentenced there. James Charlick was my Great x3 Grandfather who features in your thesis.

ATTENTION MARITIME HISTORY FANS! The CfP for the Maritime Britain project end of project conference is now live. Check out the poster below and register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-bri…

An exciting (& slightly scary) day for the Maritime Britain team @HistoryAtSoton. We've received c. 1 million merchant ship voyages (1565-1765) from our work on the E 190 Port Books (stored @UkNatArchives) using our HTR training. Now all we've got to do is curate the data...

Join us in December for our Dymond Lecture! We will be joined by Professors @Medievalmariner and John McAleer as they discuss English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities. Find out more: balh.org.uk/dymond2024 #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Our #shipoftheday is the 300 ton, 30 gun, Robinhood of London, of whom the master was 'D. Littel John'. 45 English mariners and 15 foreign, heading towards Madeira

Our #shipoftheday is the Prince of Asturias of London: 140 tons, 16 guns, 4 British sailors and 12 foreign, master Edmund Ryan, sailing from the Thames to Portugal, 1740. The Prince of Asturias was the heir to the Spanish throne, & Ferdinand (the future Ferdinand VI) in 1740

The films are fabulous!

The first of our Autumn Lectures looks at the roles and relationships women had with the sea, particularly with the Royal Navy. We recently caught up with speaker, Dr Elaine Murphy, to find out more about what we can expect from her talk. @PlymPrivateer nmmc.co.uk/2024/09/womens…

#shipoftheday the 250 ton Hercules of London, sailing into the capital from Tripoli on 11 April 1588. Her cargo was unloaded over several days. For Sir Edward Osborne, Richard Staps et al, this included cinnamon, nutmeg, indigo, cloves, pepper, cotton, cloth, and Turkish carpets

Our #shipoftheday is the Paradise of Dunkirk, master Jaques Bosage, sailing from London to Dunkirk on 9 December 1620. The ship carried 'for the Archduke of Austria' (Ferdinand II, HRE) 1 long dressed Kentish cloth

#shipoftheday This has to be our new favourite vessel name, a 2-ton cockboat in Faversham, Kent, in 1580 called the 'Cowe tourde' (Cow Turd)!

Top 6 things to shrink and keep prisoner in an alchemical flask: 1. Fox 2. Raven 3. Boyfriend 4. Dove 5. Ghost of a dove 6. Ex-boyfriend

The work our inter Amber did for the project features in @UoS_smmi Bulletin. Amber placed all the East India Company voyages from 1600-1770 into our project database. We'll geo-spatially map this for our website @maritimebritain). southampton.ac.uk/smmi/news/2024…

Wow Wow Wow Volume Up! I’ve never caught this on camera before, Little Nutmeg and Fox Cub Toffee. You can see how submissive Toffee is and that is because Badgers are top dog, but I’ve never seen Nutmeg share so closely with a fox. From my experience and I’ve said this before, the badgers seem to be more accepting of fox cubs as if they sense they are just learning. I feel very proud of Nutmeg as Mr Lumpy was just as gentle and tolerant 🙏🦡🦊🐾🐾❤️

@djrgrey Congratulations Daniel! This is wonderful news and I’m delighted for you!

Thrilled to announce I've been promoted today to Reader in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire. Many thanks to my referees, the anonymous external assessors, and all the friends and colleagues who have supported me in this journey. 🥳🌟

This week we say goodbye to our intern, Amber (maritimebritain.org/english_mercha…). Amber's placed all the East India Company voyages (1600-1770) into our project database. We'll be geo-spatially mapping these in due course. Thanks to @UoS_smmi for funding Amber's work @maritimebritain

@PlymPrivateer Absolutely fancied his chances. But they are bitey little buggers with big claws so I abandoned any Snow White type ideas and backed away.

@lucy_huggins Did the squirrel have a go and treat you as a tree

Curious juvenile squirrel thought I was a strange new type of tree.

#OnThisDay in 1954, The Fellowship of the Ring — the first volume of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings — was published.