Hull Maritime

‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985 (2022)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2023). ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985. Journal for Maritime Research, 23(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/21533369.2022.2097855

The historiography of British distant-water fishing concentrates on the period prior to 1976 and the third ‘Cod War’ that saw British trawlers excluded from their principal fishing grounds. Little research has hitherto been done on the period afterwa... Read More about ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985.

A War in the Air and on the Coast: Civilian ‘Night Patrols’ and the Defence of Hull during the First World War (2022)
Digital Artefact
Reeve, M. (2022). A War in the Air and on the Coast: Civilian ‘Night Patrols’ and the Defence of Hull during the First World War. [blog post]

Opening paragraph:
When we think of wartime bombing raids and attacks on civilians, we often conjure up images of ruined public buildings and homes during the Blitz of the Second World War. After all, this has become ‘one of the country’s most cheri... Read More about A War in the Air and on the Coast: Civilian ‘Night Patrols’ and the Defence of Hull during the First World War.