Author: Professor Nicholas Rogers

How the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment. On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of ...

Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitm...

Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. Bristol from Below cap...

Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violen...