User:Richardblakemore
From MarineLives
Dr Richard Blakemore: Dr Richard Blakemore has been an academic advisor to the MarineLives project since its inception. Richard is an early modern historian with research interests in early modern seafarers, particularly British sailors in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Currently he is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College Oxford, where he is examining the interconnected development of maritime trade, state structures, and imperial authority. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2012, and from 2012-2014 was an Associate Research Fellow on the project Sailing into Modernity at the University of Exeter.
Tweets at @historywomble and also blogs.
