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| − | <div style="background: #b0c4de; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; font-size: larger; font-weight: bold;">Anchorsmiths, apprentices, bakers, ballastmen, blockmakers, boatswains, booksellers, brewers, brokers, butchers, captains, carpenters, chandlers, cheesemongers... mariners, master's mates, merchants...stevedores, stewards, steersmen, turners, upholsterers, vintners, watermen, widows, winecoopers, woodmongers and yeomen</div>
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| − | <div style="font-famil:Garamond; font-size: normal;">'''We need the help of volunteers to create three thousand biographies of men (and some women) who gave evidence in the High Court of Admiralty in the 1650s.'''
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| − | '''These witnesses range from anchorsmiths and bakers through to woodmongers and yeomen. Over eighty-five different occupations. Aged between seventeen and eighty-two. From most parishes in London, and many in Middlesex and Surrey, but also from Brazil, from Angola, and from Persia.'''</div>
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| − | To give you a flavour of what is involved, please take a look at any of the following people: The shipwright and ship's carpenter '''[[William Venus]]''', the grocer '''[[Henry Tulse]]''', and the sailor and foremastman '''[[Henry Betts]]'''. Click on their names and you will go to a short biography and factbox about the person.
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| − | You can see the simple form which has been used to create these biographies by typing one of their names into the box below and clicking on "Create or edit a MarineLives biography", for example "Henry Betts". You will be able to see the information as it has been entered by a volunteer. To be able to edit the information, or to create a new biography, you will need a Username and Password. Please [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact contact us] if you would like to learn more about volunteering.
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| − | [[File:Henry Betts 28072016.PNG|700px|thumb|center|MarineLives profile of [[Henry Betts]]]]
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| − | |intro=The data in the factboxes will be fully searchable and available to all users of our wiki, as will the text biographies - a chance for each of you to help the project and to make a contribution to historical research.
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| | + | ==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022== |
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| − | ==Interviews with historians==
| + | '''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database''' |
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| − | <div style="font-famil:Garamond; font-size: normal;">'''We are conducting a series of interviews with professional historians about their use of electronic search in support of their research strategies'''</div>
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| − | Recent interviews include social historians Dr Andy Burn (Durham University) and Dr James Brown (University of Sheffield) and maritime historian Dr Cathryn Pearce (University of Greenwich)
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| − | [[File:Dr Andy Burn 09072016.PNG|100px|thumbnail|left|[https://durham.academia.edu/AndyBurn Dr Andy Burn, Durham University]]]
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| − | Dr Andy Burn is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Durham. His current research concerns "Social Relations and Everyday Life in England, 1500-1640", a Leverhulme-funded project led by Professor Andy Wood. The first year of this project involved extensive research across England in local record offices and archives in which Andy examined mainly legal documents generated by Church and National courts. Andy's research is now moving more online and will mine State Papers (using State Papers Online) as well as Early English Books Online (EEBO), plus local records accessed electronically.
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_Two#Dr_Andy_Burn.2C_University_of_Durham Click here to read the interview with Dr Andy Burn].
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| − | [[File:Dr James Brown 08072016.PNG|100px|thumb|left|[http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/brown Dr James Brown, University of Sheffield]]]
| + | ==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?== |
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| − | Dr James Brown is based at the University of Sheffield. He is affiliated both to the Sheffield HRI Digital group and to the Sheffield history faculty. He is currently one of two research associates on the project [http://www.intoxicantsproject.org 'Intoxicants and Early Modernity: England, 1580-1740' (ESRC; PI: Professor Phil Withington)]. James completed his PhD at the University of Warwick on Inns, Taverns and Alehouses in Early Modern Southampton in 2008. Between 2009 and 2013 he was project coordinator and then digital project manager for 'Cultures of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters, 1550-1750' at the University of Oxford (Mellon Foundation; PI: Professor Howard Hotson), overseeing (inter alia) the development of its union catalogue of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century correspondence, [http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. Early Modern Letters Online].
| + | '''This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material''' |
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_Two#Dr_James_Brown.2C_University_of_Sheffield Click here to read the interview with Dr James Brown]
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| − | [[File:Dr Cathryn Pearce 06072016.PNG|100px|thumbnail|left|[http://www.gre.ac.uk/ach/study/hpss/staff/cathryn-pearce Dr Cathryn Pearce, Visiting Lecturer, University of Greenwich]]]
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| − | Dr Cathryn Pearce is an American maritime historian, living and working in the South West of England, who has studied and worked in Alaska, Canada and England. She was an active transcriber in the MarineLives project team back in 2012, when the project was first established. She received her BA in History from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and her MA in British and Maritime history from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She received her doctorate in maritime studies from the University of Greenwich. She edits the peer reviewed online journal Troze for the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
| + | 1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar |
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| − | Cathryn's current research project is on life saving and coastal communities. This project centres on the private physical manuscript archive of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society. Cathryn has imaged the minute books of the Society, together with associated materials, and is now transcribing the material and exploring the background of the many individuals mentioned therein. The archive is located in Chichester and is a purely a paper archive with no electronic finding aids or search engine.
| + | 2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions |
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_Two#Dr_Cathryn_Pearce.2C_University_of_Greenwich Click here to read the interview with Dr Cathryn Pearce]
| + | 3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database |
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| + | 4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database |
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| − | ==The Silver Ships research project==
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| − | [[File:SilverShipsEtchingDu-Gard BL.PNG|300px|thumb|right|Etching from Thomas Violet, 'A True Narrative of som Remarkable Proceedings Concerning the Ships Sampson, Salvador, and George' (1650s). Source: British Library: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)] licence]]
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| − | <div style="background: #b0c4de; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; font-size: larger; font-weight: bold;">Our volunteers</div>
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| − | <div style="font-size: normal;">'''Our volunteers make the MarineLives project special. Do please [http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html contact us] if you would like to discuss volunteering, or if you have ideas to improve our wiki.'''</div>
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| − | We would like to recognise and thank all those who have contributed to our project (in alphabetical order), whether as volunteer transcribers, annotators, commentators, advisors, interviewees, or PhD Forum participants.
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| − | Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner
| + | ==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database== |
| − | Dr Roberta Anderson
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| − | Deborah Ashby
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| − | Rachel Bates
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| − | Rowan Beentje
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| − | Dr Richard Blakemore
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| − | Lior Blum
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| − | Katie Broke
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| − | Dr James Brown
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| − | Dr Andy Burn
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| − | Elio Calcagno
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| − | Michelle María Early Capistrán
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| − | Rachel Carter
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| − | Giovanni Colavizza
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| − | Dr Justin Colson
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| − | Thierry Daunois
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| − | Dr John Davies
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| − | Thomas Davies
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| − | Jonathan Dent
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| − | Melvyn Dresner
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| − | Dr Stuart Dunn
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| − | Professor Kai Eckert
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| − | Bob Egan
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| − | Dr Charlene Eska
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| − | Louise Falcini
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| − | Emilie-Jane Farrimond
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| − | Dr Janet Few
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| − | Sara Fox
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| − | Dr Ian Friel
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| − | Dr Perry Gauci
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| − | Marja Geesink
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| − | Adam Georgie
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| − | Jaap Geraerts
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| − | Jamie LH Goodall
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| − | Guy Grannum
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| − | Colin Greenstreet
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| − | Francesca Greenstreet
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| − | Adam Grimshaw
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| − | Karen Gunnell
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| − | Yerevag Hagopian
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| − | Dr Liam Haydon
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| − | Phillipa Hellawell
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| − | Dr Helmer Helmers
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| − | Dr Philip Hnatkovich
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| − | Rachel E. Holmes
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| − | Dr Jenni Hyde
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| − | Steve Ives
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| − | Alex Jackson
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| − | Stefan Jäggi
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| − | Elin Jones
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| − | Sue Jones
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| − | Ross Keel
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| − | Dr Patricia Keller
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| − | William Kellett
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| − | Sara Kerr
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| − | John Kuhn
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| − | John Layt
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| − | Sjoerd Levelt
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| − | John Levin
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| − | Grace Mallon
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| − | Simon Marsh
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| − | Dr Alan Marshall
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| − | John Miller
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| − | Anne Mills
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| − | Kate Morant
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| − | Professor Steve Murdoch
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| − | Dr Shavana Musa
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| − | Harriet Richardson
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| − | Gordon O'Sullivan
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| − | Katherine Parker
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| − | David Pashley
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| − | Dr Cathryn Pearce
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| − | Nga Phan-Bellis
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| − | Professor Simone Paolo Ponzetto
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| − | Jo Pugh
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| − | Patrizia Rebulla
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| − | Bethan Reynolds
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| − | Daniel Richards
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| − | Andrew Richens
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| − | Dr Mia Ridge
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| − | Dominique Ritze
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| − | Dr Gavin Robinson
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| − | Margaret Schotte
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| − | Steven Schrum
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| − | Laura Seymour
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| − | Ida Sjoberg
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| − | Edmond Smith
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| − | Daniel Stewart-Roberts
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| − | Chad Stolper
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| − | Roger Towner
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| − | Alexis Truax
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| − | William Tullett
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| − | Oliver Turner
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| − | Dr Brodie Waddell
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| − | Samuel Watson
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| − | Jill Wilcox
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| − | Royline Williams-Fontenelle
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| − | Ad van der Zee
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| − | Dr Kathrin Zickermann
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| − | Dr Suze Zijlstra
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| − | Cäcilia Zirn
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| − | and the ever helpful but anonymous [https://twitter.com/_mapnut @_mapnut]
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| − | '''Three large ships (The ''Salvador'', the ''Sampson'' and the ''Saint George''), of supposed Lubeck and Hamburg build and ownership, were captured by the English in 1652 with highly valuable cargos of silver bullion.'''
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| − | '''The ships were on their way from Cadiz with bullion from the Spanish West Indies going northwards. It was disputed in the English Admiralty Court as to whether the ships were bound legally for the Spanish Netherlands, or illegally for Amsterdam.'''
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| − | The case was endowed with political as well as commercial weight - the Commonwealth, and then the Protectorate, was keen to have the bullion declared lawfull prize, but the Spanish government contested this.
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| − | The many and varied court depositions and other English Admiralty (and English and Spanish State Paper) records give very granular and highly colourful accounts of Seville and Cadiz, Hamburg and Lubeck, the Spanish Netherlands, the by-ways between the Spanish Netherlands and Amsterdam by which bullion could be smuggled overland and by canal, and the River Thames, where the ships and sailors were held following seizure.
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| − | Thomas Violet, a rather dodgy goldsmith, was involved as an agitator on behalf of the State, and published a pamphlet pleading for reimbursement of his efforts, which supplements the Admiralty Court material on the MarineLives wiki.
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| − | The Silver Ships project was launched by participants in the [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Three_Silver_Ships#Research_goals_and_approach MarineLives 2015 summer transcription training programme] and continues to be driven by volunteers.
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| − | '''Click to [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Three_Silver_Ships#Narrative read more]''' about the Silver ships and the historical and legal context of the resulting disputes.
| + | [[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]] |
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| − | ==Our team based transcription programmes== | + | ==What we would like in return?== |
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| − | We run regular team-based transcription programmes on-line, facilitated by trained team leaders, with teams of three or four volunteer associates. These programmes last ten weeks, and will take a transcriber from a novice to a confident transcriber in that space of time.
| + | '''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:''' |
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| − | Please [http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html contact us] to discuss volunteering, or to explore how we might work with your University, School or Local History Society.
| + | 1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions |
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| − | [[File:Thomas Davies 14052015.PNG|210px|thumb|left|Thomas Davies]]
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| − | '''Thomas Davies was a third year history undergraduate student studying at Bath Spa University. In the summer of 2014, Thomas was a member of a four person virtual team of volunteers transcribing Admiralty Court witness statements from 1658 to 1660, facilitated by Dr. Philip Hnatkovich in Pennsylvania:'''
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| − | "There were some challenging aspects of the programme — the main being distance. This was because we worked as a team and half of the team were based in the United Kingdom and half were based in the United States, so we had to be aware of time differences and that we would be unable to meet in person.
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| − | To combat this we used email, Google Hangouts, and Skype and made good use of all the resources available to stay in touch when working on the documents together. We had weekly calls to discuss team business. The weekly calls helped because we would talk about the problems or issues we faced weekly and how the transcriptions were to be presented covering topics such as layout or abbreviations.
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| − | The biggest challenge I faced in the transcription itself was becoming accustomed to the peculiar writing and distinguishing letters. Some letters look very similar, such as f’s and s’s, r’s and c’s not to mention t’s and l’s. I began transcribing effectively by taking it slow and working out the letters individually instead of looking at the word as a whole as we do with modern writing. I found this approach to be very effective.
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| − | MarineLives created a Bath Spa student section that helped me significantly, showing templates of letters and the different forms they have. This allowed me to tackle the many different writing styles the clerks used. Once I was able to distinguish between letters more clearly with considerable practise, I found I could transcribe enough of the page to get a good idea of what was being said in the documents. Then, I could alter words that did not fit within the context of the deposition, or using the context as a guideline as to what certain words should be."
| + | 2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database |
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| − | [http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/2015/01/05/our-team-reflections-from-the-summer-programme-2014-part-2/ Read full article]
| + | * Thematically |
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| − | [[File:Katherine Parker 14052015.PNG|250px|thumb|left|Katherine Parker]]
| + | ==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024== |
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| − | '''Katherine Parker is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently writing her dissertation entitled “Toward a more ‘perfect knowledge': British geographic knowledge and South Seas exploration in the eighteenth century. She participated in the MarineLives Ph.D. forum in 2013, and the MarineLives summer programme in 2014:''' | + | '''For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.''' |
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| − | "On summer research trips to London in 2011 and 2012, I had looked at a few HCA documents and knew that the cases recorded in them offered rich material for social, economic, and naval history. Over the course of several skype meetings, I and other PhD students got to give our opinions about the proposed platform and methodology for transcription. Working with a team created a strong community aspect to the project from the beginning; I have always been impressed by the inclusiveness and openness that drives MarineLives. Also, it was refreshing to have my opinion valued as a PhD student, as sometimes that stage in one’s education is isolating and transitional—you are not yet qualified as an expert, but also not unknowledgeable about certain fields.
| + | <u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u> |
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| − | The value MarineLives placed on the voices of the PhD forum made me want to participate further, even though the works being transcribed were not strictly within the chronological bounds of my dissertation project. Thus, when the summer transcription project was created, I jumped at the opportunity to use paleographic and transcription skills I had gained after a year in London archives on a Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2013-14).
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| − | Writing styles change over time, just like clothing and furniture styles. Thus, the letters inscribed within HCA volumes from the mid-seventeenth century posed a challenge for me, as I am used to the fluid, upright cursive (often written by a trained scribe or clerk) of the mid-eighteenth-century Admiralty. I came to enjoy the challenge of squinting at the digital pages in front of me, willing the words to make sense, filling in paragraphs slowly until suddenly they all made sense."
| + | * 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town |
| | + | * 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place |
| | + | * 1675 deponents with place of birth identified |
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| − | [http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/2015/01/11/our-team-reflections-from-the-2014-summer-programme-part-3/ Read full article]
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| + | * 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions |
| − | ==MarineLives Digital Pop Up Lab==
| + | * 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership |
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| − | '''The MarineLives Digital Pop Up Lab started this week.'''
| + | MATERIALS |
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| − | '''Team 1 will work on prototyping semi-automated handwriting recognition'''
| + | * 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports |
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| − | We will explore line and text block recognition of legal documents using software tools developed by the Transkribus project. If we can get a Java coder on the team, we will embed the Transkribus tools in the MarineLives wiki. The team will work with C17th records from the English High Court of Admiralty and from the King's Bench. We will explore whether Transkribus tools can be used by volunteers to create metadata for virgin manuscripts for which there are neither existing metadata, keywords, nor full text transcriptions. We are interested in both the software and workflows required to systematise the creation of metadata and keywords to make previously "invisible" manuscript images discoverable. | + | - '''We are growing this section on the geography and character of ship ladings in response to the geographical interests of database users. Participants in our online seminar on April 25th 2024 will have a chance to influence this according to their research interests''' |
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_One Click here for more detail on Team One]
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| + | MICROHISTORY |
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| − | '''[[Tools: Slavery|Slavery]]''' - Lists 34 English, Dutch & Portuguese slave ships in 1650s HCA records
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| − | '''[[Tools: Probate records|Probate records]]''' - Lists full text transcriptions of merchant wills available on MarineLives wiki
| + | * Depositions related to: |
| | + | - The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe) |
| | + | - Customs Houses |
| | + | - Taverns, inns and victualling houses |
| | + | - Private homes |
| | + | - Warehouses and cellars |
| | + | - Wharves and keys |
| | + | - Shops |
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| − | '''[[Tools: London 1677 Directory probate record lookup|Probate & London directory 1677 lookup]]''' - Matches merchants in 1650s Admiralty Court records to Probate records and listing of merchants in 1677 London merchant directory
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| − | [[File:Litle London Directory 1677 JC Hotten 1863 Piece 190114 copy.PNG|thumbnail|center|200px|[https://archive.org/stream/littlelondondir00lond#page/2/mode/2up John Camden Hotten (ed.), Little London Directory of 1677 (London, 1863)]]] | + | [[File:Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | '''Team 2 will work on tailored algorithmic search, and will prototype semantic search methods on our semantic media wiki'''
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| − | We will explore how historians approach historical search when they are looking for people, places and dates. We will look at search engines employed by archives and libraries such as the National Archives and the British Library, at search tools provided by digital resources such as British History online and at federated search tools such as Connected Histories. We will look at search tools, glossaries, and lookup tables on the MarineLives wiki. Our focus will be on how historians really work, and on how technology can be used to speed up and make more effective the day-to-day task of historical search.
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| − | We will explore how visualisation techniques can be used by historians for multiple purposes - to improve the discoverability of data, to highlight and analyse linkages in data, and to aid the comprehension of data. We will undertake an analysis of our own needs as historians and will explore how software designers have approached meeting those needs.
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| − | '''The [[Introduction to the High Court of Admiralty|English High Court of Admiralty]] produced a wide range of documents. [[Court Records|Click here for a full listing of the Admiralty Court records within scope of MarineLives project]]'''
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| − | The various steps in a particular case can be followed in summary form in the '''Acts of Court'''.
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| − | A case was commenced with the issuing of a '''Warrant''' by the Court, and the preparation of a '''Libell''' or an '''Allegation''' by the party commencing the case.
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| − | Many cases were settled prior to the giving of a formal verdict or '''Sentence'''. For those cases which went to sentence, the sentences can be found in document bundles. These bundles often include bills of expense related to the case, and in some cases include copies of the allegations or libells, and other miscellaneous documents.
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| | + | '''If for any reason you need to drop out unexpectedly prior to the seminar, please give us at least a couple of days notice so we can fill your space''' |
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| − | ==Finding Aids==
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| − | <big><div style="text-align: center;">Gallery of High Court of Admiralty deposition books <br />Finding aids by alphabet, age, folio, geography and occupation</div></big>
| + | * Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024 |
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| − | File:HCA 13 67 FC.PNG|[[HCA 13/67|HCA 13/67]] <br />Feb 1653 - Sep 1653 <br />170 pages
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| − | File:HCA 13 68 Credits4.PNG|[[HCA 13/68|HCA 13/68]] <br />1653 - 1654 <br />1405 pages <br />734 deponents <br />[[HCA 13/68 Deponents|Alphabetical]] <br />[[HCA 13/68 Deponents - by folio|By Folio]]
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| − | File:HCA 13 70 Credits 1.png|[[HCA 13/70|HCA 13/70]] <br />1654 - 1656 <br />1511 pages <br />866 deponents <br />[[HCA 13/70 Deponents - By Folio|By Folio]]
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| − | File:HCA 3 71 Credits 1.png|[[HCA 13/71|HCA 13/71]] <br /> 1656 - 1657 <br />1366 pages <br />[[HCA 13/71 Deponents|Alphabetical]] <br />[[HCA 13/71 Deponents - By Geography|By Geography]]
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| − | File:HCA 1372 Credits.PNG|[[HCA 13/72|HCA 13/72]] <br /> 1657 - 1659 <br />1330 pages <br />[[HCA 13/72 Deponents|Alphabetical]] <br />[[HCA 13/72 Deponents - By Age|By Age]] <br />[[HCA 13/72 Deponents - By Geography|By Geography]] <br />[[HCA 13/72 Deponents - By Occupation|By Occupation]]
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| − | File:HCA 13 73 Credits.png|[[HCA 13/73|HCA 13/73]] <br /> 1659 - 1660 <br />1333 pages <br />[[HCA 13/73 Deponents|Alphabetical]] <br />[[HCA 13/73 Deponents - By Age|By Age]] <br />[[HCA 13/73 Deponents - By Folio|By Folio]] <br />[[HCA 13/73 Deponents - By Geography|By Geography]] <br />[[HCA 13/73 Deponents - By Occupation|By Occupation]]
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| − | File:HCA 13 124 Credits 1.png|[[HCA 13/124|HCA 13/124]] <br /> Personal Answers<br />1650 - 1652 <br />385 pages <br />[[Tools: 13/124: Index of Personal Answers|By Folio]]
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| − | File:HCA 3 47 Credits.png|[[HCA 3/47|HCA 3/47]] <br /> Act Book<br />1656 - 1658 <br />52 pages
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| − | File:BOOK MAP Lygon R Map Barbados 1657 IArch DL CSG 040212.PNG|[[Tools: Slavery|Slavery]]
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| − | File:Jan Steen Hear It Sing It 1665 11072016.PNG|[[Inns, Taverns, and Victualling Houses|Inns, taverns & victualling houses]]
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1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar
2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions
3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database
4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database
1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions
2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database
