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Mayflower ashore on the banks of the Thames in 1624, being broken for parts. Dr Mike Haywood (used with the kind permission of The General Society of Mayflower Descendants)

Mayflower 400: the science of sailing across the ocean in 1620

Jonathan Ridley, Solent University

When a shipload of puritan colonisers set sail for the New World, maritime science and navigation were fairly unsophisticated.
Principled revolutionaries: the Pilgrim Monument at Provincetown, Massachusetts. TWA Photography via Shutterstock

Mayflower 400: were the Pilgrims asylum seekers or subversives?

Polly Ha, University of East Anglia

Puritan leaders argued vehemently for a church to be free of any higher authority – which caused problems in England and the new world.

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  1. English Civil War
  2. History
  3. Latitude
  4. Maritime history
  5. Mayflower
  6. Plymouth colony
  7. Puritans
  8. Religious discrimination
  9. Religious history
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