Dr Cathryn Pearce
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
- I need to focus on my writing. I need to get my head back into the machinations of the Popish Plot in Newhaven for my Newhaven Times article. There's enough conspiracy, lying, and machinations enough back then. At least it's in the past. After that, I'm escaping to nature writing! #AmWriting
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceNo excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images. world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceWe are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!
- 📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
- Woo Hoo! It's great to see Mandy Haggith on the list. Mandy was in our coastal history/studies online writing group!
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceWork of the Week! Porthgwarra by Ernest Procter Though fishermen have been coming to Porthgwarra since at least the Elizabethan era, it was not until the mid-1800s that a real community was formed in the area. Nowadays, Porthgwarra is best known as a set location in the BBC drama series Poldark.
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn Pearce5 years is not "quite short". those 5 years cost us about fourteen grand, three horrendously stressful applications, and (for example) a full half decade where nobody would offer us a mortgage because my wife only had temporary residency, so we had to keep paying a fortune in rent instead
- The Home Secretary several times says she thinks 5 years is "quite short" and "quite quick". Views differ - but the BSA finds that the general public tend to see 5 years as fair: over 80% of people tend to think 5 years is fair natcen.ac.uk/publications...
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Very much looking forward to @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social talking about The Ship Bedford and the Atlantic Slave Trade next Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... - Reposted by Dr Cathryn Pearce[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceStumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn Pearce'The Awe of The Arctic', a beautifully illustrated book about the 2024 exhibition at the New York Public Library that I sadly didn't get to see. Including a letter from HMS Erebus' Surgeon Stephen Stanley! Well worth getting this book. #Arctic #NavalHistory
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceThis is glaringly obvious with the most cursory of thought so WHY is the government so intent on forcing this stuff on us, including in schools?
- Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceExcellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceThe thing that most infuriates me is that students in England with loans pay a higher marginal tax rate than CEOs.
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceWord of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceCornwall Council has an online translation service for the Cornish language. They have been translating some nursery rhymes for me to sing to Rowan, and it's made my day. I realise no one asked, but here's 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' in Kernewek:
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceEscaped enslaved people on St Kitts fled into the rainforest in the interior, making use of a series of trails which connected many of the villages around the island. They would knock on the hollow roots of the Banyan tree (pictured) to give directions to escapees or warn of approaching pursuers.
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- Okay. Break's over! Time to get back to marking! #AcademicLife
- They're replacing the Trusty Tusty? 🥹I know she's getting rather old. I used to sail on her sister ferry, the 'Baby Bartlett' in Prince William Sound. Tusty's route includes the Aleutians and Dutch Harbor, as well as Seward on the Kenai Peninsula. She's a lifeline for Southcentral coastal Alaskans.
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn Pearce1 Feb 1805 // 16-gun brig sloop HMS Seagull was given up as lost with all hands (about 120 men) in the English Channel. She had sailed from Plymouth in late December but was not seen again. The cause of her loss is not known, but she was presumed to have sunk in a storm. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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- Okay, so it might be raining again tonight.
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceBeautiful design by Tsmishian (Alaska Native) artist to support those in MN via the ACLU NARF fund www.customink.com/fundraising/...
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- Hmm!!! Halfway through writing a short piece for the historical society on a wrecking case, and then just remembered I'm doing a talk on Sussex wrecking next year for them. Now thinking I need to do something else. How about my 'Ghosts, Gold and Corruption at Newhaven's HM Customs'? #AmWriting
- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceA quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about… Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring. This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
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- Reposted by Dr Cathryn PearceIMBOLC (or Imbolg!) Saint Brigid's Day is a Gaelic traditional festival. 1st February is the start of Spring.
