I am fortunate to have worked since the 1990s on the history of Bermuda, first as an archeologist on slave quarters at Hog Bay Park, and then at King’s Castle. Trained as a 17th century historian my research and publications now have moved into the emancipation era. I am writing a microhistory of an enslaved Bermudian mariner who freed himself in New York only to be re-enslaved in Louisiana, from where he sought freedom. I uncovered a Bermudian man’s slave narrative, parallel to Mary Prince’s, not previously identified, and have two articles underway. I have co-authored work on the myth of benign slavery in Bermuda. I have pieces forthcoming on the Colonial Office’s legal opinion on Bermuda’s Slavery Amelioration Act of 1827, and a new account of the arrival of the American slave ship Enterprise in Bermuda in 1835.

Archivist on contract for the Naval Museum of Halifax. Also known as Admiralty House.
Have been on work terms and contracts for the past ten years at the museum.
I have a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of History with Honours from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
Duties at the museum include research, organization of photo collection, including biographies and documents.
The museum is open to the public and we assist in exhibits at the museum and on base and participate in outreach programs. One of the programs that I pursue and enjoy is conducting walking tours of our Naval Burying Ground.

Dr. Ross Nedervelt is an adjunct instructor in history at Florida International University (Miami, Florida), where he received his Ph.D. in 2019, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society. He specializes in border regions, identity, and security in the British Atlantic world during the long eighteenth century. His in-progress monograph, presently titled “Revolutionary Border-sea: Security, Empire, and Independence in the Western Atlantic, 1763-1825,” examines the American Revolution’s transformative impact on Bermuda and the Bahamas, and their strategic importance for both British imperial and American national security in the Age of Revolutions.

Dr. Samantha Middleton is an early career naval historian. Her doctoral research focused upon the professionalisation of the Royal Navy between 1660-1688. This work was a multi-disciplinary thesis between naval history and accounting history and established that the concept of management control can be seen to have been implemented by James Duke of York, Samuel Pepys and William Coventry. Dr Middleton is currently in the final stages of review in co-authoring an article related to this research with Professor Lisa Jack and has presented her work at multiple international accounting and naval history conferences. Dr Middleton specialised in the Battle of the Atlantic for her MA dissertation.

I was born in January 1949 in Singapore, where my father was a member of the Victualling Department of the Admiralty. My early education was in Malta, at the Army School in the Tigne Barracks in Sliema. Back in the UK, I progressed to Eltham College in south-east London and boarded there when my father was posted to Bahrain. Following school, I was awarded BA and MA at Cambridge, during which time my father was posted to Melbourne, on a civil service exchange with an Australian counterpart.

My business career was in the British publishing industry, in information publishing for consumer, educational and academic markets. I was Publishing Director of Dorling Kindersley Ltd, which took me back around the world to Singapore and Australia, among many other countries. I retired from full-time executive employment as Managing Director of Encyclopaedia Britannica, with responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

I took a new direction by training as an actor, taking a Master’s degree at East 15 Drama School, and have since turned towards writing plays and musical theatre pieces. I continue my work in the publishing world as a consultant and in the voluntary sector as a former Trustee of the Stationers’ Company Foundation, which makes educational grants to young people from under-represented communities in the UK entering the content and communication industries.

I am a historian of the modern British empire, with a specialism in the history of twentieth-century South Asia and also in the Second World War. I have written books about the Partition of India, refugees and decolonization and about India in the Second World War. My current book project is about British warfare and the role of non-European peoples. I teach at Oxford’s History Faculty and Department for Continuing Education, and I am a Fellow of Kellogg College, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an editor of History Workshop Journal.

Dr. Guy Collender is the Post Doctoral Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth. He has published research aboutLondon’s Great Dock Strike of 1889 and the Australian Maritime Strike of 1890 in Coastal Studies and Society, and about the history of workplace accidents in UK docks for Hindsight Perspectives for a Safer World. He gained his PhD on the history of the Port of London (1900-1939) from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2022. He is writing a book for Palgrave Macmillan on working class cultures in the Port of London.