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Professor Claire Jowitt
@clairejowitt.bsky.social
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Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt
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Claire Elaine Jowitt is an English academic who writes on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance. She is currently a Professor in English and History within the Schools of History and Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Previously, she held a personal chair in English at Southampton University (2012-2015), was Professor of Renaissance English Literature at Nottingham Trent University (2005–12) and Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University (1996–2005). .. more

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Oct 16
Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 4d
Take a moment to enjoy 2 hungry pigmy🐐🐐Bob & Terry Jowitt nibbling their post Xmas treat on their (almost) 8th birthday! #goatrecycling #norfolk 🎄🐐🎂

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 7d
#Norfolk

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 7d
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11d
Bob 🐐 in the ❄️ #Norfolk

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11d
Ooh yes! I cannot wait ... #SleepingBeauty ... so looking forward to this treat! 🎭

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13d
It's a fair cop ...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13d
My NY's resolution 2026 ... try & get my rampant, rabid consumerism under control, focusing on experiences rather than things ... esp. buy fewer 👠👠...
a little girl wearing a blue dress and red shoes
ALT: a little girl wearing a blue dress and red shoes
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 14d
Last day writing in 2025 ... close to finishing with @benjaminredding.bsky.social our co-ed collection, The Wreck of the #Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time, but not quite there ... should be out 2026 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social but until then, sharing some of my fav images! HNY!

Reposted by Claire Jowitt

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 15d
Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
17th-century ballad about the Great Fire of London

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 16d
Gorgeous, female Inca figure 1400-1532, gold alloy ... she's mighty but tiny ... #tinyjoys @sainsburycentre.bsky.social

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 17d
I do like twixmas - get to spend the morning writing in peace (no email!), & then later going on a 'ramble to the roost' with Norfolk Wildlife Trust at Hickling Broad ... hope ☀️comes out for it! #norfolk

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 18d
Well worth going to see this ... a boxing day cracker! Only question: how many Oscar nominations will it garner? Gorgeous story, beautifully told ... #hamnet 👏🎬👏🎬👏

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 19d
Best circular walks for #BoxingDay ... 🚶‍♀️👣 #Norfolk
Route details
Start/end: Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale
Distance: 5 miles / 8km
Difficulty: Easy
& pop into Jolly Sailors in Brancaster Staithe 🍻

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Axel Bruns, David N. Thomas , and 10 more

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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 20d
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 21d
Xmad has now orfficially started at Jowitt Towers ... have a good one, folks, & see you on other side ... 🧑‍🎄

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 21d
Today's festive delight ... learning how to pack a xmas skip 'properly' ...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 21d
A quartet of gorgeous Xmas baubles - 4 Elizabethan & Jacobean portrait miniatures by Hilliard & Oliver 🎄🎨https://philipmould.com/exhibitions/59-miniatures-from-the-bearsted-collection-an-intimate-exhibition-of-eight-exceptional-elizabethan-and/

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 22d
And today's festive delivery at Jowitt Towers is ... 'Happy xmas, darling', *someone* said .... debating a response ...🔫/🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 24d
Dahlias for Jowitt Towers 2026 now selected & purchased from @farmergracy.bsky.social - 'Amarone', 'Floorinoor', 'Ryecroft Blackberry', & 'Ping Pong' (my favourite) with #earlybird offer ... gorgeous colours! One of my winter treats is imagining next summer's flowers ... 🌺🪷💮🌸🌹🌷

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26d
Otters! Squealing thinking that it's lunchtime (& disappointed I'm not delivering it) #colchesterzoo 🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 27d
At the zoo! Met a Sun Bear & lots of critters hiding from the 🌧! Gorgeous! 🐻‍❄🐒🦎

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28d
Oh yes! #Pepystown #harwich

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 28d
Yay! Day off! What could be more festive than poking round an old dockyard & pier! Looking forward to a day out in #Pepystown with a libation or 2 at the end ...🍷🍷🍷

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 12
‘Half in, half out’ approach to REF 2029 outputs ‘not enough’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/half-ha...
‘Half in, half out’ approach to REF 2029 outputs ‘not enough’
Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 8
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... last wk of term! Almost there ...🎄🎄🎄

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 7
Is it too early??? Last year's tree about to do Sterling service again & 2 lovely new snail friends for baubles ... 🎄🐌🐌

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 5
Some stunning miniatures on show #philipmould philipmould.com/content/feat...
My favourite, a love-locked, Hic Mulier inspired cat in a fab hat, c. 1615 ... 'young lady wearing a masculine-style
black & orange doublet & black hat (with hat jewel) & an orange sash' ... brava!

Reposted by Keith Lilley, Margot C. Finn

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 5
Thanks to the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian we are pleased to offer in 2026 The Dominic Christian #MaritimeHistory Scholarship to study for an MA in @ueahistory.bsky.social - further details & t&c here:
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓
Deadline to apply: 8/6/26

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Dec 3
Excited that this piratastic monograph by Richard Frohock - Piracy Mythmaking in the 18th Century
Criminality, Human Nature, & Civil Government - is latest monograph from 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' series from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - out 8 May 2026!
www.routledge.com/Piracy-Mythm...
🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️

Reposted by Tom Stoppard, Claire Jowitt

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Dec 2
Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can...
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Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
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