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Merchant Research Project

Editorial history

15/08/11, CSG: Created page
28/11/11, CSG: Restructured and rewrote introduction

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Welcome to the Merchant Research Project wiki.

This wiki is a collaborative platform for scholars interested in the social, commercial and material life of merchants in mid-C17th Europe and the international reach of their lives.

Specifically, the wiki has been developed as a resource on the social, commercial and material life and environment of the Kent, London and Surat merchant Sir George Oxenden in the mid-C17th century. However, it has the potential, through collaboration, to offer a broader connected micro-history of mid-C17th 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The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished primary documents. At its core is the previously unpublished private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden. 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.

Additionally, this wiki contains primary research guides, finding aids, research tools, and synthesised material.

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.

The wiki is available to invited academic users, who are encouraged to contribute.

We are now seeking individuals to try out the wiki and to contribute feedback on its look and feel, its functionality and its content.

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Index

Academic contacts
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Background research questions
Bibliography
Buildings
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Glossaries
Legal
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Material culture
People
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Primary Documents
Primary research guides
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