Upcoming Events​​​

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester Across the Globe: Cromwell's Warship, 1654-60', The Holt Society, the Holt Venue, 14 February 2025, 7.00pm.

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Claire Jowitt, 'Why the Wreck of the Gloucester in 1682 Matters: The Secrets of a Restoration Warship', Dereham Baptist Church, 18 March 2025, 2.00pm.

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Past Conference

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The Life, Times, and Heritage Futures of the Gloucester Conference, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 12-13 May 2023 (further information available here).

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Past Seminar Series

 

The Stories of the Gloucester Shipwreck: Norfolk's Mary Rose, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Seminar Series (watch a recording of the seminar series here):

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25 April 2023, 'Music, Drinking, and Other Intoxicants in Restoration Britain'.

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• Dr Angela McShane, Honorary Reader in History, University of Warwick, ‘Drinking and Smoking at Sea During the late Seventeenth Century: A Social History Both Above and Below Decks’.

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• Professor Peter Holman MBE, Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology, University of Leeds, ‘Music of the Stuart Court Before and After the Gloucester Shipwreck’.

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16 May 2023, 'An Avoidable Tragedy? The Duke of York, Politics, and Naval Policy'.

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• Professor Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, 'A Naval Man: The Leadership Qualities of James Stuart, Duke of York and Albany'.

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• Dr J. D. Davies, Chair of the Society for Nautical Research, 'The State of the Royal Navy in the 1670s and 1680s'.

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20 June 2023, 'Shipwreck and the Sea in Early Modern Art and Culture: New Horizons and Watery Graves'.

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• Dr Carl Thompson, Reader in Romanticism, University of Surrey, 'The Cultural and Political Meanings of Shipwreck and the Sea under the Later Stuarts'.

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• Dr Elsje van Kessel, School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 'Shipwreck, Material Culture, and the Body'.

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11 July 2023, 'Stuart Style: Textiles from the Gloucester'.

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• Professor Maria Hayward, History, University of Southampton, 'The Politics of Restoration Fashion'.

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• Ninya Mikhalia, Historical Costumier and Ruth Battersby Tooke, Senior Curator of Costume and Textiles, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 'Curating and Replicating Stuart Style'.

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Past Events

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester (1682), and Why it Matters', Bungay Flower Club, 25 October 2024.

 

Claire Jowitt, 'Why the Wreck of the Gloucester in 1682 Matters: The Secrets of a Restoration Warship', UEA Retirement Association (RA), Costessey Centre, 24 September 2024.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Stories of the Gloucester Shipwreck, 1682', Thomas Plume's Library, Maldon Annual Lecture 2024, 28 September 2024.

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​​Benjamin Redding, 'A New Warship: The Gloucester, The Western Design, and Oliver Cromwell', Dereham Heritage Trust, 11 September 2024.

 

The Gloucester Project Team, 'The Gloucester Shipwreck & its Future', Council Chamber, The University of East Anglia, 11 July 2024.

 

Benjamin Redding, 'Crisis Before the Shipwreck: The Gloucester and Oliver Cromwell's Western Design, 1654-1656', Blakeney Area Historical Society, 26 March 2024.

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Julian Barnwell and Claire Jowitt, ‘The Discovery of the Gloucester: A Norfolk Story’, Ipswich Maritime Trust, 6 March 2024.

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Claire Jowitt, 'Last Voyage of the Gloucester', Time & Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, 1 March 2024.

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The Gloucester Project Team at the Norwich Science Festival, Gorleston Science Satellite, East Norfolk Six Form College, 21 February 2024.

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Claire Jowitt and Benjamin Redding, 'The Wreck of the Gloucester', Aldeburgh & District Local History Society, 21 February 2024.

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Claire Jowitt, 'Why the Wreck of the Gloucester in 1682 Matters: The Secrets of a Restoration Warship', Knowledge Mile: Lord Mayor's Lecture Series, 2023/24, 22 February 2024.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester and Why it Matters', Folkestone Engineers Group, 12 December 2023.

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Julian Barnwell and Claire Jowitt, ‘The Discovery of the Gloucester: A Norfolk Story’, Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club,  24 November 2023.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester in the Caribbean, 1654-1656', The Cromwell Museum Autumn Lecture Series, 22 November 2023.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester and Why it Matters', Fireside Chat, Royal Naval Association, Online, 13 November 2023.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester and Why it Matters', The Norfolk Club, 9 November 2023, 11.00am.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Wreck of the Gloucester, 1682: A Norfolk Story', West Norfolk & King's Lynn Archaeological Society, Marriott’s  Warehouse, South Quay, King’s Lynn, 17 October 2023.

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Julian Barnwell and Claire Jowitt, 'HMS Gloucester - History and Discovery', Reepham Rotary Club, Reepham 6th Form College, 16 October 2023.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester in the Caribbean, 1654-1656: Oliver Cromwell's Western Design', Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 7 August 2023.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester and Why it Matters', Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 31 July 2023.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester, the Stuart Navy, and a Royal Tragedy at Sea', Royal Stuart Society, London Scottish House, Westminster, 22 June 2023.

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Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester, 1682: A Royal Shipwreck', Suffolk Archives, Bury St Edmunds, 14 June 2023.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester Shipwreck: A Norfolk Story', Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeology Society', 2 June 2023.

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Julian Barnwell and Claire Jowitt, 'The Secrets of the Gloucester: The Past, Present, and Future of a Restoration Royal Warship', Lasdun Lecture, The Royal Institution, London, 16 March 2023 (watch a recording of the lecture here).

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Claire Jowitt, 'Norfolk's Mary Rose: the Wreck of the Gloucester 1682', Annual Collingwood Lecture, The Collingwood Society, Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School, 7 March 2023.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The First Voyage of the Gloucester (1654–6): Life and Death in the Caribbean', Society for Nautical Research Winter Lecture Series, 18 January 2023.

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Claire Jowitt, 'Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck: The Loss of the Gloucester, 1682, The Proctor Memorial Lecture, King's College London, 8 December 2022.

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Claire Jowitt and Julian Barnwell, 'Norfolk’s Mary Rose, the Wreck of the Gloucester 1682:  An Evening with the Experts', Norwich Rotary Club at Norwich Assembly House, 27 October 2022.

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Claire Jowitt and General Lord Richard Dannatt, ‘The Discovery of the Gloucester: A Norfolk Story’, University of East Anglia Annual Council, 21 October 2022.

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Benjamin Redding, 'The Gloucester (1682): Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck', Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, 10 September 2022.

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Britain and the World Conference 2022, University of Plymouth, UK (14-17 June):

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• Jared Butler, 'Naval Evolution During the Interregnum: The Rise of English Sea Power, 1649-1660'.

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• Claire Jowitt, 'The Last Voyage of the Gloucester (1682): The Politics of a Royal Shipwreck'.

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• Benjamin Redding, '"Not Honorable for a Princely Navy": The Gloucester and its Crew in The Western Design 1654-1656'.