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
Contents
Suggested links
Online Training Activities
Introduction to the High Court of Admiralty
MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy: Draft Five
Semantic markup policy: Version One
-Geographical and Place Terms
-Marine Terms
-Commodities
C17th Arctic whaling
Virginia tobacco trade in the 1650s
Useful articles and secondary materials
Creating a wiki Page
Searching the Wiki
Editing a Wiki Page
Inserting and Editing Text
Cropping and Inserting images
MarineLives TRANSCRIPT
The Shipping News
MarineLives website
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 (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 (State University of Pennsylvania)
Research subject: XXXX
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
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
