Dr Samantha Nelson awarded the 2025-26 Pearsall Fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research

Congratulations to Dr Samantha Nelson who has been awarded the 2025-26 Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History at the Institute for Historical Research, part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Studies. Samantha recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD at Manchester Met on ‘Women, Warfare and the Tudor Regimes (c. 1485-1603), during which she undertook an international placement at the Huntington Library in California. For a sample of Samantha’s work, try her Open Access article on the crew of the Mary Rose, co-authored with her PhD supervisor Catherine Fletcher and available here.

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