Craig's research focuses on English shipping, maritime communities, maritime logistics and naval operations from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. He recently completed a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council entitled 'The Merchant Fleet of Late Medieval and Tudor England, 1400-1580': http://medievalandtudorships.org/. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Councillor for the Naval Records Society.

Jason is a Principal Enterprise Fellow and Computer Scientist with experience of a wide variety of the languages, tools and techniques of Software Engineering. He has worked at the University of Southampton's GeoData Institute for over 30 years, implementing and leading software development projects, particularly in areas of environmental and geospatial data management and infrastructure, open data, standards and open source technologies. In recent years Jason and his team have specialised in the management, analysis and visualisation of data for Digital Humanities.

John's work explores the British encounter and engagement with the wider world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts. He was previously Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Gary is an historian with research interests in maritime and military history from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. He has published several works in these areas and worked on a number of research projects at the universities of Hull, Southampton, and East Anglia, including Lambert's 'The Merchant Fleet of Late Medieval and Tudor England, 1400-1580' (2014-16) and the recent AHRC project: 'Warhorse: The Archaeology of a Medieval Revolution?' (2019-22).

As a social and cultural historian of early modern England, Lucy's work focuses on maritime and riverine communities, identities, and networks.