Jean Hood
British historian
Jean Hood is a maritime author and historian.
Biography
Jean Hood was born in 1953.
Jean Hood read English Literature at the University of Durham and began her professional career working in the cardboard industry as an advertising copywriter. Advertising soon led Hood to Lloyd's Register of Shipping where she became Information Officer during the 1980s. This posting marked a turn in her career; drawing on a continued passion for history, her job at Lloyd's Register of Shipping inspired a love for maritime history. She became an authoritative figure and consultant in this field, answering questions from private individuals, researchers and maritime art dealers. Her subsequent research on the 18c East Indiaman, ‘Winterton’, spanning two decades, became the subject of her first non-fiction book, Marked For Misfortune, published in 2003 by Conway Maritime Press.
In 2006, Hood released Come Hell and High Water, an examination of several infamous or less well-known shipwrecks, to general critical acclaim. Warship International Fleet Review wrote that it ‘reads like the best fiction, yet they are all true stories’. It entered 2007's Good Book Guide, which commended the piece as ‘Meticulously researched and compelling.’ Janet Dempsey writing for the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?
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