Explore the relationship between humans and the seas, from antiquity to the present day. Our maritime history list publishes quality scholarship on the history of seafaring – for exploration, trade and warfare.
We publish monographs and edited collections under our Boydell Press imprint, and partner with the Navy Records Society and the Hakluyt Society to bring work available to their members to a wider audience.
New and forthcoming
Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England
Sailors, Statesmen and the Implementation of Naval Strategy
Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580–1588
Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700
Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era
The Postwar Fleet
St Helena
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918
Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century
Ireland’s Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600
Featured series
Worlds of the East India Company
Hakluyt Society Third Series
Featured blogs
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Peter Sowden
Commissioning Editor, Maritime History
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