Global Maritime History

Christy Anderson is a professor at the University of Toronto, jointly in Art History and the Daniels Faculty of Architecture. These days she works on ships as architecture, including the ropewalks that rigged the world’s fleets. Her current project, Age of Rope, follows these buildings and their workers across the early modern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

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A partnership between the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa and the New Zealand Government Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa,...

Warspite cadets dancing the Hornpipe, 1928. National Maritime Museum Reproduction ID H6381. Associated Press on Flickr. Via Wikimedia.

Most readers will be at least somewhat familiar with Captain Cook. But did you know that he almost single-handedly propelled the English Hornpipe into the public consciousness, ...

Thank you to Andrei Romanov for part 2 of his fascinating series. Part 1 can be found here.

Part 2 of 3: The Padrões as Strategic Instruments

In Part 1, we examined what the padrões were: limestone pillar...