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Welcome to your new wiki!  This is your wiki's Front Page.  So what do you do now?
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'''Merchant Research Project'''
  
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= Quick Start Guide! =
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'''Editorial history'''
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  1. First read the rest of this page!
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  2. If you haven't already, read the [wiki:wikispot:"Wiki Creator Guide"] and [wiki:wikispot:"Wiki Guide"].
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  3. Go to [[MRP: Wiki Settings|Wiki Settings]] and change the settings for your wiki!
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  4. Click the edit button up top of this page and create your new front page.
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  5. Start adding content to your wiki and read about [wiki:wikispot:"building community"]
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= Default Pages Included With Your Wiki =
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This is a simple list of of all pages included with your wiki.  You will hopefully create many, many more!
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  * [[MRP: All Pages|All Pages]] is an automatically generated list of all the pages in your wiki.
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  * [[MRP: Bookmarks|Bookmarks]] is for your bookmarks on this wiki. Every user has his/her own bookmarks page based on what they choose to bookmark on this wiki.  To bookmark a page, simply click "Bookmark" at the bottom of the page!  ([wiki:wikispot:"Interwiki Bookmarks"] on wikispot shows you all of your bookmarks on all wikis.)
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Welcome to the Merchant Research Project wiki pages.
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  * [[MRP: Front Page|Front Page]] is the page you're currently viewing.
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  * [[MRP: Events Board|Events Board]] is a page where anyone can post events in the community.
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  * [[MRP: Help|Help]] links to the main help pages on wikispot -- useful for reference.
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  * [[MRP: Orphaned Pages|Orphaned Pages]] contains an automatically generated list of pages with no links to them.  Ideally, this page should be empty -- keep your wiki well-linked!
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  * [[MRP: Outgoing Links|Outgoing Links]] lists all pages sorted by the number outgoing links on each page. This provides a good place to start if you're feeling [wiki:c2:"WikiGnome" gnomeish] and want to link-up some pages with few to no links.
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  * [[MRP: Quick Wiki Tips|Quick Wiki Tips]] -- At the top of [[MRP: Recent Changes|Recent Changes]] shows randomly selected tips from this page.
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  * [[MRP: Recent Changes|Recent Changes]] shows all the recent activity on the wiki in a given time period. This page lets everybody see what's happening in your wiki! ([wiki:wikispot:"Interwiki Recent Changes"] on wikispot shows you the recent changes on all the wikis you're watching.)
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  * [[MRP: Random Pages|Random Pages]] is a randomly generated list of twenty-five pages.  Good for finding pages to edit once your wiki grows large.
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  * [[MRP: Site Organization|Site Organization]] has links to pages that help you keep your wiki well organized.
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  * [[MRP: Templates|Templates]] is a user created list of template pages -- pages that you can use as starting blocks for making new pages.  [[MRP: Templates/Business|Templates/Business]] is there just to give you an idea of what a template should be.
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= Making new pages! =
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The Merchant Research Project provides a collaborative platform for scholars interested in the social, commercial and material life of merchants in mid-seventeenth century Europe and in the international reach of their lives.
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To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page."
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Specifically, these wiki pages have been developed as a resource on the social, commercial and material life and environment of the Kent, London and Surat merchant [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]]. However, it has the potential, through collaboration, to offer a broader connected micro-history of mid-seventeenth century commercial life.
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The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished [[MRP: primary documents|primary documents]].
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At its core is the previously unpublished [[MRP: Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669| private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden]].<ref>BL, Add. MS. 40708-40713: Private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, Oxenden papers, vols. 11-18</ref>  The correspondence is contained in letter books held at the British Library.  These letter books are lightly indexed in the British Library online catalogue. They have neither previously been calendarised, nor have they been available in transcribed and annotated form.
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A sense of the range of this correspondence in terms of the letter writers and their locations can be derived from an [[MRP: Alphabet of names|Alphabet of names]] and an [[MRP: Alphabet of places|Alphabet of places]].  Complementing these letters is a substantial corpus of primary legal documentation, drawn from the [[MRP: Chancery cases| Court of Chancery]], and increasingly from the [[MRP: Admiralty Court cases| High Court of Admiralty]]; together with post mortem inventories and wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
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The extent of the new primary and secondary material available on the wiki is described under [[MRP: Size & Scope of the Wiki|Size & Scope of the Wiki]].
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The content of the wiki is work in progress.  It does not constitute finished peer reviewed material, and is not provided for external publication, neither in whole nor in part.
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===Using and contributing to this wiki===
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[[MRP: Searching the wiki|Searching the wiki]]
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[[MRP: Contributing to the wiki|Contributing to the wiki]]
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[[MRP: Testing the wiki|Testing the wiki]]
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[[MRP: Size & scope of the wiki|Size & scope of the wiki]]
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===Need your help===
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[[MRP: Missing faces|Missing faces]]
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[[MRP: Missing pictures|Missing pictures]]
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[[MRP: Missing places|Missing places]]
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[[MRP: Transcription|Transcription]]
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[[MRP: Synthesis|Synthesis]]
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[[MRP: MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers|MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers]]
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[[MRP: Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account|Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account]]
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[[MRP: Expertise needed|Expertise needed]]
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===What's new?===
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[[MRP: New in the wiki|New in the wiki]]
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[[MRP: New work on primary documents|New work on primary documents]]
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===Index===
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[[MRP: Alphabets|Alphabets]]
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[[MRP: Glossaries|Glossaries]]
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[[MRP: People|People]]
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[[MRP: Places|Places]]
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[[MRP: Primary Documents|Primary Documents]]
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[[MRP: Research tools|Research tools]]
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[[MRP: Visual & material culture|Visual & material culture]]
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[[MRP: Visual images|Visual images]]

Latest revision as of 05:03, April 13, 2015

Merchant Research Project

Editorial history

15/08/2011, CSG: Created page
28/11/2011 and 13/04/2015, CSG: Restructured and rewrote introduction


Welcome to the Merchant Research Project wiki pages.

The Merchant Research Project provides a collaborative platform for scholars interested in the social, commercial and material life of merchants in mid-seventeenth century Europe and in the international reach of their lives.

Specifically, these wiki pages have been developed as a resource on the social, commercial and material life and environment of the Kent, London and Surat merchant Sir George Oxenden. However, it has the potential, through collaboration, to offer a broader connected micro-history of mid-seventeenth century commercial life.

The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished primary documents.

At its core is the previously unpublished private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden.[1] The correspondence is contained in letter books held at the British Library. These letter books are lightly indexed in the British Library online catalogue. They have neither previously been calendarised, nor have they been available in transcribed and annotated form.

A sense of the range of this correspondence in terms of the letter writers and their locations can be derived from an Alphabet of names and an Alphabet of places. Complementing these letters is a substantial corpus of primary legal documentation, drawn from the Court of Chancery, and increasingly from the High Court of Admiralty; together with post mortem inventories and wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

The extent of the new primary and secondary material available on the wiki is described under Size & Scope of the Wiki.

The content of the wiki is work in progress. It does not constitute finished peer reviewed material, and is not provided for external publication, neither in whole nor in part.


Using and contributing to this wiki


Searching the wiki
Contributing to the wiki
Testing the wiki

Size & scope of the wiki


Need your help


Missing faces
Missing pictures
Missing places

Transcription
Synthesis

MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers
Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account

Expertise needed


What's new?


New in the wiki
New work on primary documents


Index


Alphabets
Glossaries
People
Places
Primary Documents
Research tools
Visual & material culture

Visual images
  1. ↑ BL, Add. MS. 40708-40713: Private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, Oxenden papers, vols. 11-18

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