The Gloucester Project
Professor Claire Jowitt
Claire Jowitt is Principal Investigator on The Gloucester Project and a Trustee of The Gloucester 1682 Trust. She is Professor of Renaissance Studies and joined the University of East Anglia in 2015 as Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, serving in that position until 2022. She has published seven books and more than fifty essays and chapters on maritime history and culture and travel writing studies. She is a General Editor of the new Oxford University Press edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598−1600), co-edits Amsterdam University Press’s Maritime Humanities 1400−1800: Cultures of the Sea book series, and is an elected member of the Council of the Hakluyt Society and the Society for Nautical Research.
Dr Benjamin Redding
Benjamin Redding is Senior Research Associate on The Gloucester Project. He joined the School of History at the University of East Anglia in 2020. He has published essays and chapters on early modern naval history, several of which have explored the design, decoration, and iconography of warships. His recent book The English and French Navies, 1500-1650: Expansion, Organisation and State-Building was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2022. He is a Trustee of the British Commission for Maritime History and an elected member of the Council of the Naval Record Society.
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Jared Butler
Jared Butler is undertaking a PhD in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. His project 'A Comparative History of the Supply and Maintenance of the English Navy c. 1649–1688' explores how issues of supply and maintenance affected the service of the third-rate frigates built in the 1652 building programme.
