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Cathryn Pearce Aug 23, 2023

Our Autumn 2023 intake is looking really good! We still have a few spaces available for our distance-learning MA course. Our former students (from all over the world!) have really been our best ambassadors! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-taught/ma-naval-history #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory #Naval

Naval History (Distance Learning)

If you're fascinated by naval history, this Master’s degree will enable you to turn your interest into a versatile postgraduate qualification. Portsmouth is the home of the Royal Navy, and our partnerships with maritime heritage institutions, including the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the HMS Warrior, mean you’ll enjoy exclusive digital or in-person access to their collections, archives and galleries. With the entire course online via distance learning, you can study alongside work or military service over one or two years.

University of Portsmouth

Cathryn Pearce Aug 3, 2023

@[email protected] Agreed! I really enjoyed reading it. #CoastalHistory

Cathryn Pearce Jul 23, 2023

I'm working on my memorial chapter section analysing the monument, which hasn't been done before. I have too much material, but that's par for the course with me! Thinking of converting my 'cutting room floor' stuff into a proper interpretive talk for the local historical society. It's somber stuff, but important.

#PublicHistory #ShipwreckHistory #SussexHistory #CoastalHistory

Cathryn Pearce Jul 15, 2023

Thinking about Victorian shipwreck narratives and the 'narratives of suffering'. Most work has considered their use nationally, both to elicit humanitarianism and philanthropy, as well as a national 'collective' anxiety.

I'm looking at them from a local angle, and considering the stories that a community decides to tell about a local shipwreck. So far, they've just reflected back the narrative set by the newspapers, even 200 years later. #CoastalHistory #shipwrecks

Cathryn Pearce Jul 12, 2023

@[email protected] this sounds fantastic! Thank you! #coastalhistory

Cathryn Pearce Apr 11, 2023

I really appreciate the National Library of Scotland's online map collection, especially their overlay feature.

I'm looking at Coastguard stations on the Sussex coast of the English Channel. Many are almost gone, over the cliff due to erosion. #CoastalHistory #LostHeritage #Coastguard #SussexHistory

Cathryn Pearce Mar 11, 2023

Thanks to @PortsPastPres for featuring my post on wrecking and the Royal Charter. It is a small taste of my bigger project on coastal communities and intertidal shipwrecks. #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory https://portspastpresent.eu/items/show/722

The Wreck of the Royal Charter | Llongddrylliad Royal Charter - Plundered by ‘Natives’? | Wedi’i hysbeilio gan ‘Frodorion’? | Ports, Past and Present

The horrific wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 had all of the elements of a sensational story: huge loss of life and riches in the form of Australian gold. Men were seen 'picking sovereigns out of the holes and crevices of the rocks as they would shell fish.' A news feast accused the people of Anglesey of plundering the wreck and stripping the bodies of victims washing ashore. Enroute from Melbourne, Australia in 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter had called at Cobh before heading into the...

Ports, Past and Present

Cathryn Pearce Feb 5, 2023

Hah! Just had some writing thoughts as I was going through my references and made a note of a wrecking case that would be good for a blog that I'm thinking about developing.

Looked in my Obsidian notes and found a project page that had already laid it out as a chapter for a trade book I'd like to write on wrecking around the British and Welsh coast. May increase that to the full Atlantic Archipelago. There's so many fascinating stories to tell. #amWriting #CoastalHistory