Lectures & Media
‘That Strange and Very Ancient Custom’: Tattooists in American Sailortowns during the Nineteenth Century
North American Society for Oceanic History, Brock University, Ontario, June 2024
Maintaining French Prisoners of War in British Ports and Colonies, 1793-1815
McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2023
Hygiene, Hospitals and Health: Medical Advancements Brought on by Admiral Rodney and Gilbert Blane in the West Indies, 1779-1782
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference | Starkville | February 2022
Equipped for War? Royal Navy Supply Chain Failures to the West Indies in the 1790s
McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2021
Suppressing Piracy on the Frontier - Commodore David Porter and his Mosquito Fleet
North American Society for Oceanic History, University of West Florida, Pensacola, July 2021
Health of Royal Navy Sailors in the West Indies during the American Revolution 1776-1783
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 2020
The Isolated Union Outpost – Key West, David Farragut and the Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-1865
McMullen Naval History Symposium | U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis | September 2019
Commodore David Porter – A Study in Naval Leadership
National Maritime Historical Society | New Orleans | February 2018
Bahamians in Key West Industries
Bahamas Historical Society | Nassau, Bahamas | December 2018
Portable Soup to Peruvian Bark – Medicinal Trials in the Royal Navy, 1750-1800
The Health and Welfare of Seafarers Conference | University of Hull, U.K. | January 2014
Wounds & Wards – The Development of British Naval Hospitals, 1750-1815
Navy & Nation Conference | National Maritime Museum, U.K. | July 2013
Defying Conformity – Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Navy
University of Exeter Center for Maritime Historical Studies | Exeter U.K. | September 2010
Commissioners vs. Captains – Who Really Altered the Course of Naval Medicine?
The Burthen of the Mortal Body: Life, Death, Sickness and Health in the Early Modern Period | University of Exeter U.K. | August 2010
The Operations of the Trinity House Ballast Office in the Late 18th Century
Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Thames Symposium | Museum in Docklands, London U.K. | 2009