David Starkey (maritime historian)


 * Not to be confused with David Starkey, the British historian and specialist on the Tudors.

Professor David J Starkey (born 1954) is a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British maritime history. His research focuses on shipping, seafaring, privateering, fisheries and marine environmental history.

Life
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), and chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History.