Publications
My publications reflect an interdisciplinary approach to maritime music, exploring its cultural, historical and political dimensions. Drawing on archival research, ethnographic methods and critical theory, my work engages with questions of transnational music-making and the global circulation of musical practices. The entries below include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, public history writing and educational resources, spanning both academic and applied contexts. Together, they contribute to ongoing conversations around music’s role in shaping and reflecting histories of seafaring, colonialism and cultural transmission.
Against the Silence of the Sea: Voicing the Histories of Maritime Slavery (forthcoming, publisher TBC) Find out more
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From Ship to Screen: The Cultural Legacy of Sea Shanties (forthcoming, Palgrave MacMillan) Find out more
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‘Maritime Imagery, National Redemption and Sentimental Contradictions in British Abolition Song’, British Abolition Song
and its Legacies (forthcoming, Boydell & Brewer) Find out more
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‘Shanty singing across Mediterranean maritime networks’, Sea Songs of the Mediterranean: Collection, Comparison, Analysis (forthcoming, SOAS) Find out more
Books & Book Chapters
'Moby Dick: A chapter-by-chapter guide', Audrey Guided Audio-Books (2025) Find out more
Educational Resources
The History and Legacy of Enslavement in the City of Aberdeen: Report on the connections between physical sites in Aberdeen and transatlantic chattel slavery, Aberdeen City Council (2023) Find out more
Policy
'Hearing London's Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire', Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2025) Read online
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'Shanty singing in the Mediterranean’, Journal of the Hakluyt Society (2025) Read online
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Carlyle, Mollie, ‘Shanty singing in captivity during the Second World War’, ARAMAES (2024) Read online
‘Lost at Sea Under Mysterious Circumstances by Richard M. Jones’, International Journal of Maritime History (2025) Read online
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‘Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages by James Seth’, International Journal of Maritime History (2025) Read online
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Articles
The Stan Hugill Memorial Archive (forthcoming) Find out more
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'Reframing the Collection: Physical sites with a connection to chattel slavery', Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums (2024) Read online
Websites/ Webpages
Asylum: An Original Musical, Dale Publishing (2020)
The Shantyman's Compendium, Independent Publishing Network (2019) Find out more