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Writing letters allowed the puritan community spread across England, Holland and the US feel a lot smaller continue practices that were important to their worship. Scisetti Alfio/Shutterstock

Mayflower 400: how the pilgrims coped with separation

Sarah Hall, University of York

Letter writing helped this small but close community continue their way of life.
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.

Related Topics

  1. Latitude
  2. letter writing
  3. Maritime history
  4. Mayflower
  5. Naval history
  6. Philip Roth
  7. Pilgrim Fathers
  8. Plymouth
  9. Religious discrimination
  10. Thanksgiving

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