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SUMMARY:From Morocco to the Coast of England: The Story of the Dom van Keulen and its Remarkable Cargo
DESCRIPTION:About the Book\nA glint of gold on the seabed was the first tantalising sign of a remarkable treasure that had lain undetected in Salcombe Bay off the coast of Devon for over 350 years. It was April 1995\, and the South West Maritime Archaeological Group (SWMAG) were on an exploratory survey of the area. The group would eventually bring up over 400 Moroccan gold coins\, along with ingots and a collection of gold jewellery. The growing assemblage of finds also gave hints of life on board the vessel: among them\, pewter\, pottery\, a seal\, a fish-shaped weight\, and pills made of resin that had miraculously survived in a red earthenware jar. The infrastructure of the ship itself\, now long destroyed\, could only be gleaned from splinters of wood and sheets of lead. In 1999\, the British Museum acquired the entire assemblage\, and research on all aspects of the find began. We now know this to be a Dutch vessel\, the Dom van Keulen which sailed from the port of Safi in Morocco heading for Amsterdam\, which was blown off course and sank in 1633. This multi-authored book tells the story of this unique find. \nThis new British Museum publication is introduced by the editors of the book Venetia Porter and David Parham\, with an additional contribution by Ian Friel who discovered the identity of the ship in the High Court of Admiralty records. \nAbout the Speakers\nDavid Parham is Professor in Maritime Archaeology at Bournemouth University. He has been involved in the Salcombe project since 1998 and a member of SWAMG since 2006. His research interests focus on the archaeology of seafaring and ship construction of all periods but can extend into underwater cultural heritage management on occasions. \nVenetia Porter is former Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum. Previously curator for Islamic coins\, she was the lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World\, which opened in 2018. Her publications include Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets at the British Museum (2011)\, Artists making books: poetry to politics (2023) and (with Dina Matar eds.) Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory\, Culture and Erasure (2025). \nIan Friel is a historian with considerable experience of working on maritime archaeology projects\, including the Grace Dieu (early 15th century) the Swash Channel Wreck/ Fame of Hoorn (1631)\, First World War wrecks\, the potential Holy Ghost site (early 15th century) and the Mortar Wreck (c. 1250). He has published widely\, including the books The Good Ship (1995)\, Maritime History of Britain and Ireland c. 400– 2001 (2003)\, Henry V’s Navy (2015)\, Britain and the Ocean Road (2020) and Breaking Seas\, Broken Ships (2021). \n  \nTo join online\, please register here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/from-morocco-to-the-coast-of-england-the-story-of-the-dom-van-keulen-and-its-remarkable-cargo/
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SUMMARY:Indians in the Ocean: Promises of Slaves and Pirates\, 1000-1500 CE 
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Maritime Asia lecture series. \nAbout the Talk\nThe idea that the Indian Ocean was a peaceful place before Europeans arrived with cannon-bearing ships and combined trade with warfare from the sixteenth century onward has been challenged in recent scholarship. From Gujarat to Coromandel and Bengal to Malabar\, local communities participated in\, benefited from\, and were also subjected to a broader economy of violence\, with or without state support. The forms of this violence varied\, but enslavement and piracy were among its most significant means of profit-making. Yet we know very little about Indians who were taken as slaves across the seas or worked as pirates between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. This talk explores the violent worlds of maritime slavery and piracy\, complicating conventional understandings of both phenomena in the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent. It builds on my recent book\, Indians in the Ocean: Cultures of Trade and Travel (New Delhi: Penguin Random House\, 2026; Leiden: Leiden University Press\, forthcoming). \nAbout the Speaker\nMahmood Kooria is a historian of the Indian Ocean world\, currently teaching at the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology\, University of Edinburgh\, and director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History. He earned his PhD in global history at the Leiden University Institute for History in 2016\, authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafiʿi Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge\, 2022)\, and co-edited Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford\, 2018). In 2024\, he won the Infosys Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences for his contributions to the studies of Islam and Malabar in the Indian Ocean world. \n  \nFree and open to all \nTo join remotely\, please register here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/indians-in-the-ocean-promises-of-slaves-and-pirates-1000-1500-ce/
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