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The literacy analysis is very incomplete, since I have only currently captured signature vs marke for a relatively small number of the depositions, and someone will have to go back to all the images/transcriptions at the appropriate folio (we know where each deposition finishes, so it is not all 674 folios, and capture all the data onto the Page Log sheet. | The literacy analysis is very incomplete, since I have only currently captured signature vs marke for a relatively small number of the depositions, and someone will have to go back to all the images/transcriptions at the appropriate folio (we know where each deposition finishes, so it is not all 674 folios, and capture all the data onto the Page Log sheet. | ||
| − | Nevethless there is a high degree of basic literacy, with a mixture of English mariners (often provincially based), marine tradesmen and suppliers (shipwrights, coopers, butchers, watermen, labourers, and some non-English mariners really having to leave their mark. | + | Nevethless there is a high degree of basic literacy amongst mariners and (unsurprisingly) total basic literacy amongst merchants, but with a mixture of English mariners (often provincially based), marine tradesmen and suppliers (shipwrights, coopers, butchers, watermen, labourers, and some non-English mariners really having to leave their mark. |
'''You can explore the raw data yourself in the online Page Log. Use the Column J filter in the Page Log to look at signatures and markes, and the Columns K to M filters to look at occupation.''' | '''You can explore the raw data yourself in the online Page Log. Use the Column J filter in the Page Log to look at signatures and markes, and the Columns K to M filters to look at occupation.''' | ||
Revision as of 07:41, November 20, 2012
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, as well as existing project members
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
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
John Gallagher (University of Cambridge)
Research subject: Interested in histories of language and communication, and in asking how members of different linguistic communities made themselves understood amid the linguistic ferment of the early modern period. My work is interdisciplinary, bringing approaches from linguistics and from the social sciences to bear on historical sources.
PhD dissertation (in progress) provisionally titled 'The linguistic encounters of English speakers in the early modern world, c. 1483-1730'
Jamie LeAnne Hager Goodall (Ohio State University)
Research subject: Piracy in the C16th and C17th
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.
Elin Jones (Queen Marys, University of London)
Research subject: Masculinities and Material Culture in the Royal Navy, 1758-1815
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
W/C 12/11/12
Thursday, November 15th
- Welcome email to new PhD Forum members
- Assigned Username and Passwords to new PhD Forum members
- Creation of Mediawiki accounts for new PhD Forum members, enabling full access to marineLives-Transcript/SCRIPTO
- Access granted to MarineLives Page Log and Planner for new PhD Forum members
Friday, November 16th
- Creation of an Occupational analysis worksheet, which is behind the Page Log in the online Google Doc Page Log and Planner. PhD Forum members and associates have access to both documents - any problems, please get in touch with colin.greenstreet@gmail.com. The worksheet is a first cut of an occupational and status analysis, and contains occupational, age, and location data for a subset of HCA 13/71 witnesses. Comments, analytical suggestions, and comparative data are welcomed
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
Dutch merchants in London and elsewhere
Female involvement in marine activities
Injury and death
Jewish merchants
Maritime incompetence
Masquerade
Materials handling
Navigation
Ports
Portuguese merchants in London
Port trades
Seamens' wages
Slavery without redemption
Spanish merchants in London
Thames docks and wharves
Thames lighters
Thames shipyards in 1650s
The Exchange in the City of London
Violence
2012-11-16 07:07:31 nbsp Welcome to John Gallagher, University of Cambridge, who is joining the MarineLives PhD Forum. John is a PhD student at Emmanuel College Cambridge, with research interests in language and communication in the Early Modern world --Users/ColinGreenstreet
2012-11-16 10:45:05 nbsp Check out some rough cut occupational and status analysis for the first 65 folios of HCA 13/71. In ff.1r-63v twice as many mariners as merchants deposed as witnesses. See Occupational and social status analysis of witnesses in HCA 13/71
You can look also look at the age data and occupation data for the different occupation and status groups
A full analysis to follow within the next couple of days --Users/ColinGreenstreet
2012-11-16 16:39:35 nbsp There is now an Occupational analysis worksheet, which is behind the Page Log in the online Google Doc Page Log and Planner you all have access to.
You might want to check out the latest version of this occupational analysis sheet. Data are in for f.1r to f.154v (so about 22% of total). There is double counting, which I will strip out by consolidiating individuals and allowing multiple columns to code for status, occupation, and job title. Nevertheless, I am surprised at how old some of the mariners are, and not just the captains, masters and commanders of ships.
The literacy analysis is very incomplete, since I have only currently captured signature vs marke for a relatively small number of the depositions, and someone will have to go back to all the images/transcriptions at the appropriate folio (we know where each deposition finishes, so it is not all 674 folios, and capture all the data onto the Page Log sheet.
Nevethless there is a high degree of basic literacy amongst mariners and (unsurprisingly) total basic literacy amongst merchants, but with a mixture of English mariners (often provincially based), marine tradesmen and suppliers (shipwrights, coopers, butchers, watermen, labourers, and some non-English mariners really having to leave their mark.
You can explore the raw data yourself in the online Page Log. Use the Column J filter in the Page Log to look at signatures and markes, and the Columns K to M filters to look at occupation.
You can explore the sample of analysed data by using column filters for surname (Colimn B), age (Column C), literacy (Column D), occupation and/or status description (Column E), and five levels of location (street and building level, if available: Column G; parish level, if available: Column H; village, town or city: Column I; county or province: Column J; country: Column K). The raw data from which this is coded is reproduced in Column L). The underlying images for any case can be accessed through the URLs for the appropriate deposition in the Page Log.
Does anyone know of comparative data that exist for C16th, C17th and C18th by occupational group with a marine flavour, inclduing port trades? We will later be able to look at basic literacy rates for captains/masters/commanders vs other officers vs non-officers --Users/ColinGreenstreet
2012-11-17 13:55:26 nbsp Verbal and physical violence are a feature of a fair number of depositions. But it is rare for a ship to be lost as a result. But this was the allegation made by the gunner of the Fortune, who observed:
"the sayd Braining the Master without any provocation given him fell in furious manner upon the Boatswayn of the sayd shipp and with a stick or Cudgell knockt him on the head and wounded him very sore, to the endangereing of his life so as he became unable to give any assistance when the shipp was in danger"
See the new theme Violence and add your own contributions and comments. --Users/ColinGreenstreet
2012-11-19 14:34:55 nbsp I don't know if this is the best place to post this - it links to occupational and social status, I couldn't find a comment option there (showing the extent of my computer expertise...) but I can offer some comparative comments from my own research.
Vincent Patarino, in an article on 'religious shipboard culture', published in Fury, ed., The social history of English seamen (2012) (http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13786) has some figures across the seventeenth century, sampled from five files (HCA 1/9, 1/101, 13/64, 13/97 and 12/142), showing 37% of sailors and 63% of officers signing in 1603-30s, 93.6% of officers and 76.2% of sailors in 1650s-70s. In my own research, I have figures from the 1640s (HCA 13/56-61), pertaining only to London seafarers. 62-79% of these mariners, 87-94% of commanding officers, and 64-76% of other officers were signing their names (these represent the range of percentages from individual volumes). Literacy in London was probably higher than average, given the figures in David Cressy, Literacy and the social order (1980).
On age, I too was surprised to see how old a number of seafarers were, but I suspect this reflects the tendency for older and more experienced seafarers and officers to appear as deponents. From the same volumes, for London seafarers, only 40 per cent of deponents were under thirty; but over half of the sample were officers of some kind. This compares with a survey of London seafarers from 1629 in the state papers (SP 16/135, fos 111r-27v), in which only one third were officers and 56 per cent of all in the survey were under thirty. Unsurprisingly, the HCA are not a perfect census, although it does seem they are not actually that far out.
I think this raises two interesting points - firstly, how useful the HCA papers are for recovering details about early modern seafarers; and secondly, how careful we have to be about legal sources and whether they are truly representative. --Users/richardblakemore
