PhD Forum

PhD Forum

Editorial history

23/08/12: CSG, created page

Purpose of this page

This page is entry point into the MarineLives online Project Manual, and is a resource for the members of our newly launched PhD Forum

PhD Forum members and convenors

Jamie LeAnne Hager Goodall (Ohio State University)

Research subject: Piracy in the C16th and C17th

Elin Jones (Queen Marys, University of London)

Research subject: Masculinities and Material Culture in the Royal Navy, 1758-1815

Richard Blakemore (University of Exeter)

Research subject: Social history of early modern seafarers, particularly during the seventeenth century. Also interested in questions of vocational identity and authority, popular religion and popular politics in the early modern period, the development of maritime trade, and the history of navigation.

Recently submitted Ph.D. dissertation is a study of London seafarers, maritime tradesmen, and their families during the British civil wars, exploring how, and to what extent, their actions in and experiences of the 1640s were shaped by a shared occupational identity, based upon the cultural stereotype of the ‘seaman’, and what impact the civil wars had upon them as a community

Dr Janet Few (PhD, University of Exeter)

Research subject: C17th and marine history

Dr Liam Haydon (University of Manchester)

Research subject: Links between commercial and literary production; Milton

Philip Hnatkovich (Pennsylvania State University)

Research subject: Social history of maritime communities in early modern England and France, with particular interests in maritime industry, production of scientific and technical marine knowledge, and alien communities.

Ph.D. dissertation (in progress) on the multinational system of maritime trade, religious activism, and migration among English and French Channel ports during the Tudor-Stuart era, and its impact on early English colonial projects in the Americas.

Sue Jones (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Research subject: Research into early modern literature about pirates, looking in particular at utopian ideas, space and mobility

Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford)

Research subject: Ships of state and authorship: exploring national and authorial identity in sixteenth-century France

Katherine Parker (University of Pittsburgh)

Research subject: Creation of geographic knowledge about the Pacific in the eighteenth century, centred on the Royal Navy exploratory expeditions

Margaret Schotte (University of Princeton)

Research subject: Comparative study of navigational instruction between the late C16th and end of the C18th

Steven Schrum (University of Washington, Saint Louis)

Research subject: Regulation and the Economic Development of England and the Dutch Republic in the 1690s

Laura Seymour (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Research subject: Research deals with the way in which material spaces can contain and convey information, focussing in particular on gesture. See Hungry Work, an article on the Marine Live's project blog - The Shipping News.

Royline Williams-Fontenelle (University of Oklahoma, Norman)

Research subject: Studying how to address the history of West Indian slavery and Technology as co-evolved institutions on the island of Antigua

Draft PhD Forum schedule of activities

Nascent articles

PhD Forum members are invited to look at the MarineLives project exploration of C17th Arctic whaling, taking Batson and others con Gosling and others (1656 and 1657) as the starting point.

An article is being developed by several team members looking at the social structure of one of the whaling ships mentioned in this case, and the network of commercial and financial contacts supporting it. The project team is at the early stage of exploring the potential for something similar on the Virginia tobacco trade in the 1650s.

PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to either of these topics, and to explore the growing corpus of HCA 13/71 transcriptions for themes which might be suitable for further articles. All contributions will be acknowledged.

C17th Arctic whaling
Virginia tobacco trade in the 1650s

Themes

The following topics are currently being explored by the MarineLives project team in parallel with transcription work.

Each link will take you to a page which will introduce a topic and list a set of potential references in HCA 13/71, giving the title of the case and deposition, as well as a reference number. Electronic links are being added which will take you directly to the relevant transcription and manuscript image in MarineLives-Transcript/Scripto.

You are invited to explore these themes and to add your own comments and references as you browse HCA 13/71 online. You are also welcome to add your suggestions as to other relevant primary and secondary material, with the focus being on the 1650s.

Bound for Barbary
English coastal trading
Female involvement in marine activities
Injury and death
Jewish merchants
Maritime incompetence
Masquerade
Materials handling
Navigation
Ports
Port trades
Seamens' wages
Slavery without redemption
Thames docks and wharves
Thames lighters
Thames shipyards in 1650s
The Exchange in the City of London

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Editorial history

08/11/12: CSG, created page

Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it. Women are mentioned in HCA 13/71 cases and depositions in a range of circumstances, including as owners of ships and lighters, as owners of on shore trades, and as executrixes and administratrixes

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

What types and examples of marine incompetence are described?
To what extent is personal agency assumed versus an acceptance of act of God or the nature of the seas?

Adding footnotes

Go into edit mode

Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:

<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>

Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number

Save the page

Creating an electronic link within the footnote to a digital source

Using the link icon in the top RH menu bar in your open window, highlight the footnote text which you wish to become the clickable link. This will place square brackets round the text, within the existing curved brackets

e.g. <ref>[Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

Insert the URL of the digital source IN FRONT of the existing text, but still within the square brackets, leaving one space between the end of the URL and the start of the footnote text

e.g. <ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

Save the page, and the footnote text will now show 'Electronic link to a digital source' as a clickable link, which, when clicked, will go to 'http://XXXXX'

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