Keynote Speakers

Elaine Murphy, Plymouth University

Keynote title: ‘Come my fellow sufferers’: the experiences of women on Stuart warships.

Dr Elaine Murphy is Associate Professor of Maritime History at the University of Plymouth where she teaches naval and pirate history. She is currently researching the experiences of women and the seventeenth-century navy. Her publications include Ireland and the War at Sea, 1641-1653 (RHS, 2012) and The British Civil Wars at Sea (Boydell and Brewer, 2018, with Richard J. Blakemore). She is co-editor of Volume II of a new edition of the Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (OUP, 2022). She was also a research fellow on the 1641 Depositions Project.

Johan Rönnby, Södertörn University

Keynote title: Archaeology of sunken fleets, reflections and suggestion

Johan Rönnby is professor of archaeology at Södertörn University and head of MARIS (Maritime Archaeological Research Institute). He has been active as a maritime archaeologist since the mid-1980s. His research has concerned a large number of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea, in the case of warships for example Griffen (1495), Kraveln (1525) and Mars (1564). His projects have also concerned Viking age lake dwellings, harbours and prehistoric landscapes under water, coastal landscapes and theoretical aspects on humans' cultural and social interaction with water. He is currently working on a maritime landscape project in connection with the remote Gotska Sandön and with the publication of ancient Greek and Roman ships from the bottom of the Black Sea.