David Starkey (maritime historian)

David Starkey (maritime historian)
Not to be confused with David Starkey, the British specialist on the Tudors.

Dr David J Starkey[1] is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British maritime history. His research focusses on shipping, seafaring, privateering, fisheries and marine environmental history. He works at the University of Hull where he is director of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre.

Starkey is co-president of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA), chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History, and a member of the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) programme.

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