Volunteer research interests and goals

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This wiki page is for Marine Lives volunteers to tell us a little about their research interests, and what they would like to get out of the Marine Lives Ship Account Book project.

In the next few days we will be giving all volunteers editorial access to our wiki, and will be giving you a ten minute lesson in how to add wiki content, how to make simple edits, and how to add a new page of your own.

So when we get together for the first time on October 18th, 2021, for our one hour launch ZOOM meeting, we will started each of us to become familiar with using the main publication and collaboration platform for this project - the Marine Lives wiki.


Let me (Colin Greenstreet) kick this page off with some brief notes on a one to one ZOOM call with volunteer Dr Joshua Eckhardt on Monday, October 18th 2021. I'll leave it to Joshua to review this and change it as he sees fit. I have also added some notes on my own research interests and goals for this project


Joshua Eckhardt

Eckhardt at a transcribathon

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed books in early modern bookshops and libraries


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
  • Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students

Colin Greenstreet


Colin Greenstreet and Bron

BACKGROUND

  • Social sciences undergraduate; Masters in Business Administration
  • Management consultant, pharmaceutical R&D executive and entrepreneur
  • Last ten years starting and supporting social ventures, including Marine Lives, Viae Regiae, and the Signs of Literacy initiative


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts
  • Building a powerful set of metadata for English High Court of Admiralty depositions, 1574 to 1684
  • Researching and publishing on Mariner literacy and Early Modern commercial record keeping
  • Fostering collaboration between academic and public historians


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Strengthening the Marine Lives volunteer group in the Americas
  • Exploring new ways of collaboration, which build on existing Marine Lives approaches to team building and collaborative research and publication



Rebecca Rose

Rebecca

BACKGROUND

  • B.A., history, College of William & Mary
  • History M.A. student, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Member of the Superscripts


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Early 17th-century Virginia, Jamestown colony


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Writing thesis on an English mariner (& Spanish spy) at Jamestown, hoping to get a better grounding in maritime history


Tabitha Stanmore

Tabitha

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Interest in historical community and social networks.


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Interest in different types of primary source
  • Aiming to brush up my palaeography!
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