Outputs for the Mariners project have been chosen to showcase our research, embrace and celebrate the diversity of all research participants, and provide opportunities for career development and knowledge exchange between academic and community researchers, as well as churches, charities and organisations that support the welfare and wellbeing of merchant seamen today and yesterday.
2023
In Year 1 (2023) of the project, we launched the Mariners website. https://mar.ine.rs/
2024
In Year 2 (2024), we ran the Mariners conference, and submitted a proposal for a special issue of the invited essays for Cultural and Social History, which has been accepted.
2025
In Year 3 (2025), Lucy Wray curated the Mariners exhibition which so far has travelled from Bristol to the Hull History Centre and Liverpool Record Office, and will be returning to Bristol’s St Stephen’s Church, for Harbour Fest, 7-20 July. The exhibition features commissioned art works by Charlotte Jones, Kremena Dimitrova, and Will Lindley.
We also published individual, open-access articles:
Carey, H. M. (2025). Sailors, Societies and Sectarianism: George Charles (‘Boatswain’) Smith and the Formation of the British and Foreign Sailor Society. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Published online 2025:1-25. doi:10.1017/S0022046924000940
Carey, H. M. (2025). Poor Jack to Pious Sailor: Religious Literature for British Seamen, 1815–c.1850. Cultural and Social History, 1–20. Published online 08 June 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2514785
2026
In the final year of the project, we are planning oral history interviews with marine chaplains, in partnership with the Mission to Seafarers, and finalising archival research in Bristol, Hull and Liverpool.