Hello and welcome to episode 41 of the Renaissance English History podcast. And in this podcast, Benjamin Redding and I are going to talk about boats. So I'm going to introduce him in a second, but he is a PhD candidate whose expertise is in the Tudor Navy. And I first came across him when I was doing

research for the episode on the Tudor Navy. So this kind of completes that circle. And we talk about

boat building and grappling and lots of other things, maritime exploration. But before I get

started on that, two pieces of admin. The first is that the Renaissance English History podcast

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So check it out at Englandcast.com. All right. And without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and introduce Benjamin Redding now.

So Benjamin Redding is a final year PhD candidate in history at the University of Work.

His research project under the provisional title divided by LaMonts, Naval Enterprise and Maritime Revolution in England and France 1545 to 1642, is kindly

funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. This project evaluates the relationship between

Navy and State in early modern England and France. His thesis considers naval development

through administrative and financial advancements,

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