I've just listened to this podcast and enjoyed it very much. But I would quibble with one small point that probably wouldn't matter to most of your listeners, but is relevant to the story of sea songs ...

Between 1611 and 1620, the duke of Osuna, viceroy of Sicily and later Naples, influenced Spanish naval policy in the Mediterranean. Transitioning from privateering focused on Ottoman trade routes, he ...

In 2023 renewed attention was paid by Dutch media to the silk dress and other high-quality objects retrieved from a seventeenth-century shipwreck recently found near Texel. The suggestion that the ...

While much work has been done on the key figures in the Woodes Rogers expedition of 1708– 11, including the principal investors who made the voyage possible, comparatively little focus has been given ...

Recent scholarship confirms that early-modern maritime workers were often married, and that sailors’ wives were far from passive economic subjects. They actively developed strategies to augment the ...