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Of toerags and spice boxes: Sanitation at sea

Beakhead (top) and internal grating (bottom left) at the bow of the replica Dutch East Indiaman Duyfken (late 16th century; Australian National Maritime Museum). Bottom right: One of the heads and a tow rag at the bow of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s HMB Endeavour re...


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The Splendora Disaster

Many years ago, my uncle told me about a distant relative who had drowned in Sydney Harbour and he asked me to find out more. At that point I didn’t know about any family in Australia or how I would find out about them, so I filed this information away for a future date. About 15 or so years later I wanted to do some professional development about


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Women and the Sea Workshop

Women and the Sea Workshop

April 29th to May 1st St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Subject Fields: History, Sociology, Anthropology, Folklore, Archaeology, Social Sciences, Humanities, Maritime Studies, History of Sexuality, Coastal Studies, Gender ...


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Windows into past worlds – using maps to find forgotten history

Amy Walker

Amy Walker is a historian specialising in histories of poverty, ‘ordinary people’, and heritage. She completed an Undergraduate degree at the University of Gree...


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Discuss-a-doc: Samuel W. Flinders’s Service Record (1817)

In early 2024, I approached an academic publisher with a proposal to compose the first modern biography of a relatively unknown—but ultimately highly influential—early nineteenth-century navigator, Samuel Ward Flinders (1782–1834). I was also fortunate in being awarded a


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