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Dr Gul Sen
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Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & forced labor & enslavement & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking 🌄
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 18d
This is my second book: Making Sense of History:
Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 390 pp.

🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

#history
#earlymodern #OttomanHistory
#historiography #chronicle #historian #blueskybooks
Cover illustration: Upper left: The title page of the second volume of the Historiae Osmanidarum (Plenck). Upper right: The introduction to the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā in MS Ragıp Paşa 996. Below: A detail view showing sultan Selīm III’s private library, including the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā. Author: Gül Şen Title: Making sense of history : narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na’ima Published: by Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands Publication date: July 25, 2022.
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On women's labor in shipyards:
"Maritime matriarchs?
Navigating women’s work in Amsterdam’s private shipyards 1600-1800"
By Charlotte Jarvis
In: Yearbook of Women’s History, Vol. 43, Issue 2025: Women and Ports, Nov 2025, p.47-65

👉 www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#maritimehistory #shipyards
Maritime matriarchs? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Abstract This chapter will dive into a new research project, which began by creating a database for spatial analysis, and workers/owners’ names, of private shipyards in Amsterdam during the seventeent...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Book review of John Latham-Sprinkle :

Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460, by Alasdair C. Grant

In: Journal of Global Slavery
Online Publication Date: 24 Nov 2025

🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

#maritimehistory
brill.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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JGS is happy to announce the publication of an exciting special issue: "Hidden #Archives & the Commerce of #Enslavement in the #Indian #Ocean and #Asia, ed. Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Richard B. Allen, Jane Hooper & Matthew S. Hopper. Congratulations to all contributors: brill.com/view/journal...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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...
🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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New monograph: Piracy Mythmaking in the Eighteenth Century Criminality, Human Nature, and Civil Government by Richard Frohock

Publication date: May 8, 2026 by Routledge

#maritimehistory #navalhistory #earlymodern
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jamesseth.bsky.social James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social · 2d
My former prof at OkState wrote a new book that sounds pretty amazing! 🏴‍☠️⚓️
clairejowitt.bsky.social Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 2d
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...
🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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What secrets does a pirate graveyard keep? What stories are buried in one of the world’s most famous pirate cemeteries on Sainte-Marie Island, Madagascar – once a major 17th–18th century pirate hideout? Join us on Monday and find out: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #history
Image: Archéologie de la Piraterie logo, Sainte-Marie Island, Madagaskar in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
guel-sen.bsky.social
June 30, 1648, during the Ottoman siege of Crete. Galley slaves need food..

#maritimehistory #navalhistory #ottomanhistory
In June 1648, during the Ottoman siege of Crete. This passage describes the blocking of the Dardanelles, a tactic frequently applied by the Venetians, and the resulting shortage of supplies from Istanbul for the Ottoman units that were already stationed on a part of the island. This quotation is taken from "Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Chronicle of Naima" by Gul Sen. It says: The governors’ ships came with only dried words and brought no piece of food or ammunition. [They] said, “The rusks for our enslaved galley slaves will last for only three days. What shall we give them after that?” And they hoped to obtain food [supply] from Crete.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The November Issue of the IJMH 2025 has now been published.

Members can access the Journal online and will receive their copy of the printed edition shortly - journals.sagepub.com/toc/IJH/curr...

Select publications in this issue are Open Access so why not check them out?

#maritimehistory
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Pro-tip: if your public library has Hoopla, you can listen to all of these in a great audiobook version. You won’t regret it.
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Dec 24
"you'll be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?

The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities

Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
guel-sen.bsky.social
An example for the devastating consequences of waste a.o. for #sea, #ocean, and #maritimelife☹️

"In 2018, a plastic bag was photographed 36,000 feet below sea level, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth." A remarkable review by @brettchristophers.bsky.social

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lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11d
‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
guel-sen.bsky.social
The Mariner's Mirror Podcast of the Society for Nautical Research:

🔗https://shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-beae9eb42c1f/692343659274ead23ca18474

#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory
Seapower and The Knights of St John: Maritime Malta 3 | The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Øresund (Öresund), the connecting strait between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea system, as well as between Sweden and Denmark.

The view during the train ride across Øresund Bridge ( Nov 22, 2025).

#sea #landscape #railway #railways #stunday #travelphotography #Sweden #Denmark
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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[Pinned] Welcome to the Naval History Feed 😊 This feed aims to bring together posts about naval history (anything from 20 years or so ago and older). To have your posts or replies show up in the feed, just tag them with #NavalHistory. For more on this feed and feeds in general, read on 😊 (1/8)
A black-and-white photo of the aircraft carrier Argus in dazzle camouflage.
January 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
guel-sen.bsky.social
The most nostalgic candy of Denmark:
The Skipper's Pipes and it's strong connection to #maritime tradition and #history.
📷 taken today in Copenhagen
#ships #maritimeHistory
The description of the Skipper's Pipes, a Danish sweet licorice.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
guel-sen.bsky.social
Can't wait!👏

#maritimeHistory #navalHistory
clairejowitt.bsky.social Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 18d
📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
guel-sen.bsky.social
Goodbye Lund!

📷 of Lund Cathedral taken yesterday.
This image shows the Lund Cathedral after the snowfall .
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#maritimehistory #earlymodern
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The sand glass, also known as an hourglass or sand clock, has been used since antiquity to keep track of time. It was essential for determining both speed and distance travelled at sea.
#maritimehistory #AgeOfSail #history
Sand glass
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#ICYMI #earlymodern #maritimehistory
jcblibrary.bsky.social John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 15d
We're very much looking forward to our Monday, December 1 JCB Reads session with Casey Schmitt!

JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!

Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
The image contains the cover of Schmitt's book and the text PRAISE FOR OUR UPCOMING JCB READS SELECTION! "This superb book transforms our understanding of the early Caribbean. Demonstrating rare gifts of archival sleuthing, Casey Schmitt places the politics of plunder at the very center of the region's history of colonization and trade. An impressive, important contribution." LAUREN BENTON, AUTHOR OF THEY CALLED PEACE: WORLDS OF IMPERIAL VIOLENCE.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Typhoon reveals ancient ship buried for centuries
#TyphoonKalmaegi #HoiAnShipwreck #MaritimeHistory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbC4...
Typhoon reveals ancient ship buried for centuries
YouTube video by B.C. Begley
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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jenniferhenke.bsky.social
Die soziale Mobilität in Deutschland hat drastisch abgenommen. & die Person in dem Beitrag möchte auch noch in die Forschung, 1 Bereich, in dem die Herkunft 1 noch größere Rolle spielt (nur 2% aller Nichtakademikerkinder schaffen es überhaupt bis zur Promotion). #FirstGen #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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At the end of a long but rewarding day at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, at Lund University.

My colleague Heiko Droste @heikodroste.bsky.social I served as external experts on the hiring committee.

#LundUniversity #Sweden #Photography #snow #winter
Here we are at the end of a long but rewarding day, together with my colleague Heiko Droste. We both served as external experts on the hiring committee at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, at the Lund University. The shortlisted candidates delivered their well-prepared trial lectures and participated in interviews. For a productive and successful day, my thanks go to the members of the committee — and especially to Johannes Persson (Dean and Chair) for his excellent moderation throughout this extensive process — as well as to Anna Kvist, the recruitment coordinator, for ensuring a smooth and well-organized procedure. Overall, I have been very impressed by the high standards and transparency that have marked this hiring process from the very beginning.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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@sarahgunn.bsky.social Thank you for the repost😊
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Lund Central Train Station and snow

📷 taken on Nov. 20, at 19.40

#snow #Sweden #Photography #cityscape
In this photo Lund Central Train Station is seen. It is snowing and the vicinity is covered by snow. There are several bicycles in front of the station covered by snow as well. This photo is taken this evening.
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM