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Merchant Research Project

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The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished primary documents.

At its core is the previously unpublished private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden.^[1] The correspondence is contained in letter books held at the British Library.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.

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-= Merchant Research Community =
+'''Merchant Research Project'''
-[[MRP: Autobiographies|Autobiographies]]
+'''Editorial history'''
-[[MRP: Buildings|Buildings]]
-[[MRP: Maps|Maps]]
+/08/2011, CSG: Created page
+/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 [[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.
+The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished [[MRP: primary documents|primary documents]].
+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.
+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.
+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]].
+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===
+[[MRP: Searching the wiki|Searching the wiki]]
+[[MRP: Contributing to the wiki|Contributing to the wiki]]
+[[MRP: Testing the wiki|Testing the wiki]]
+[[MRP: Size & scope of the wiki|Size & scope of the wiki]]
+----
+===Need your help===
+[[MRP: Missing faces|Missing faces]]
+[[MRP: Missing pictures|Missing pictures]]
+[[MRP: Missing places|Missing places]]
+[[MRP: Transcription|Transcription]]
+[[MRP: Synthesis|Synthesis]]
+[[MRP: MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers|MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers]]
+[[MRP: Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account|Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account]]
+[[MRP: Expertise needed|Expertise needed]]
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+===What's new?===
+[[MRP: New in the wiki|New in the wiki]]
+[[MRP: New work on primary documents|New work on primary documents]]
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+===Index===
+[[MRP: Alphabets|Alphabets]]
+[[MRP: Glossaries|Glossaries]]
 [[MRP: People|People]]
-[[MRP: Primary Documents|Primary Documents]]
 [[MRP: Places|Places]]
-[[MRP: Themes|Themes]]
+[[MRP: Primary Documents|Primary Documents]]
-[[MRP: Travel diaries|Travel diaries]]
+[[MRP: Research tools|Research tools]]
+[[MRP: Visual & material culture|Visual & material culture]]
+[[MRP: Visual images|Visual images]]

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