Gender and the sea

This blog looks at maritime history from a different perspective. A ship is not just a ship. The sea is not just the sea. Using a cultural studies approach, this blog explores the impact of women, LGBT+ people, working-class people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds, on the sea and shipping. And it questions the ways that the sea and ships in turn affect such people's lives and mobility.

Friday, 27 February 2026

Seafaring women through history: my book just published

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  If you want to know the history of women at sea in both Britain's navies over the last 250 years, then my book, Seafaring Women Throu...

LGBT+ History Month 2026: seafarers in Bristol and other ports

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  As LGBT+ History Month comes to an end I’d like to say how much I enjoyed publicising to the story of Mick Belsten .  He was a P&O se...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Paul Mann: writer of queer merchant seafarer history

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 P&O purser Paul Mann (1938-2017) is overlooked, but was the best writer of queer merchant maritime fiction in the UK. Literary, he was ...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Indian women shaping maritime life : early 20C

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Indian maritime women are to be one of the three focuses of Rewriting Women into Maritime History later this year. This Lloyd's Register...
Friday, 16 May 2025

Celebrating women who map the world's oceans

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  World Ocean Day, June 7. Despite all the gendered (and racist) obstacles, women cartographers of the world's oceans have indeed made a...
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Dr Jo Stanley, FRHistS.
I'm a writer, who also works creatively with life histories, e.g. making plays, exhibitions, digital animations. Telling diverse stories of maritime life is crucial to me. Currently I'm Research Fellow at the University of Hull's Blaydes Maritime Centre and at Liverpool John Moores University. Cross-fertilising is my pleasure, so I collaborate with TV companies, museums and community initiatives
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