Craig Lambert (@medievalmariner.bsky.social)

@lucyhuggins.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:20 PMReposted by @medievalmariner.bsky.social

Hugely proud to have been a part of this! We are LIVE! 🎉 ⚓️ 🍾

@medievalmariner.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:55 AM

The Maritime Britain database is now live! Explore hundreds of thousands of voyages, ships and people.

Next stop: our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project, which so far has 4.8 million records, including 2.5 million voyages!

maritimebritain.org

@andrewayton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 1:12 PMReposted by @medievalmariner.bsky.social

Awaiting me on my return from Sweden: kindly supplied by my old friends, the authors, Gary Baker and Craig Lambert. Bit by bit, our understanding of this subject is being transformed by systematic engagement with the huge and varied corpus of MS sources.
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Front cover of Gary Paul Baker & Craig Lambert. ‘English Merchant Shipping, Trade, and Maritime Communities from the Late Middle Ages to the Age of Drake (Oxford, 2026). Cover illustration: bustling harbour scene by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1596). Ships at anchor in the middle distance; mass of people (actually intended to be St Paul’s departure from Caesarea) in the foreground.

@medievalmariner.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 10:27 AM

I'll send you a copy when I get mine. Not arrived yet.

@medievalmariner.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 10:32 AM

I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton.

Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...