This episode looks at the extraordinary maritime history of Scarborough, a port town on the UK’s northeastern coast. Famed for its medieval herring fair that features in Simon and Garfunkel’s 1960s ...

Alternative medical practitioner Henry Hall Sherwood designed, made and sold electromagnetic drugs and medical electrical machines. The American medical establishment labelled him a ‘quack’. His ...

In October 1568 around 100 English sailors were set ashore near Tampico, Mexico, during the third, disastrous slaving voyage of John Hawkins. Of these, 26 men attempted to evade Spanish authorities by ...

In 1974 the Legiao Portuguesa (Portuguese Legion) and all its sections were finally disbanded, leaving its members with a reputation as informers for the regime’s political police. This was not the ...

This article considers the British shipbuilding industry’s record in building container ships under private control then state control through nationalization of the industry under the British ...

Vasa II: Rigging and Sailing a Swedish Warship of 1628, Part I: The material remains and archaeological context makes for arguably the most scrutinizing examination of Vasa published to date. More ...

In The British in the Adriatic, 1800–1825, Malcolm Scott Hardy offers a deep dive into an often overlooked theatre of British operations during the Napoleonic Wars. This richly evidenced account zooms ...

During the 1870s three naval vessels participated in the study of the Pacific Ocean. In 1873 the Royal Navy’s HMS Challenger departed from Portsmouth, ...

In Global Trade and the Shaping of English FreedomWilliam Pettigrew presents five case studies to demonstrate the ways that interactions between English merchants and foreign traders, ministers, kings ...

The naval and maritime dimension of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Dnieper river holds immense historical significance for understanding the geopolitical evolution of eastern Europe, ...

In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

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 ...