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'''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.'''
 
'''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.'''
  
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'''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.'''
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'''So when we get together for the first time on November 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.'''
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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
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==Christopher Alimenti==
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[[File:IMG 6128.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Christopher]]
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BACKGROUND
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* B.A. in English at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
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* Superscripts Member [https://rampages.us/superscripts/author/superscripts/ Superscripts]
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* M.A. in English, specializing in Early Modern Literature and plague manuscripts at VCU
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* Early Modern Plague remedies
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* Handwritten manuscripts
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
  
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* Interest in a different manuscript hand
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* Ship logs
 
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==Joshua Eckhardt==
 
==Joshua Eckhardt==
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* Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
 
* Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
 
* Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students  
 
* Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students  
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==Jamie Gemmell ==
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[[File:Jamie Gemmell Headshot 2 Small.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Jamie Gemmell]]
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BACKGROUND
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* History Graduate; Masters by Research in History
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* Managing Director of Publish & Prosper
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* Member of the Northern Early Modern Network
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* Race and coloniality in the seventeenth-century Anglo-Atlantic World
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* Early modern Black British Histories
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* Interdisciplinary approaches to history
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* Increasing accessibility to and engagement with early modern history
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Improving knowledge of seventeenth-century primary material
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* Contributing to a better understanding of early modern Atlantic networks
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==Peter Good==
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[[File:Profile pic.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Peter]]
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BACKGROUND
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* PhD from the University of Essex
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*Lecturer in Early Modern Europe and the Islamic World at the University of Kent, UK.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange.
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Practicing and passing on palaeographic skills.
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*Learning more about the Atlantic World.
 
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* Strengthening the Marine Lives volunteer group in the Americas
 
* 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
 
* Exploring new ways of collaboration, which build on existing Marine Lives approaches to team building and collaborative research and publication
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==Ros Jones==
  
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[[File:20190803 211742v2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Ros]]
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BACKGROUND
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* BA PR with English Language and Linguistics
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* Published author of historical biography, "William Dobson: The King's Painter" (Tygers Head Books, 2016)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* 17th century wills and handwritten documents, with a focus on the period of the English Civil Wars
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* Transcribing and digitising the complete records of the Calendar of the Committee for Compounding (1640s/50s)
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* Studying and transcribing mid 17th-century British newsbooks from the Thomason Tracts collection
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Opportunity to read and study 17th century documents (paleographic interest)
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* Collaborating on a project with likeminded researchers and historians
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* Contributing to a better understanding of the subject and times
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==Dylan M. LeBlanc==
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[[File: DylanMLeBlanc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Dylan M. LeBlanc]]
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BACKGROUND
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* Currently teaching American & Atlantic history to high schoolers at [https://www.lalumiere.org/ La Lumiere School]
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* Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2019: [https://curate.nd.edu/show/6h440r9930b Empire's Callous Hands: British 'Government Men' in the Atlantic Slave Trade]
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* British Atlantic and early American history, in particular political culture, port towns, microhistory and individual lives
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* Current book project: "The Two Husbands of Sarah Rhett: Trust and the Quest for Power in Early America"
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Staying connected in academic/research networks, collaborating, maintaining paleography skills
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* Giving students an opportunity to see the historical research process unfold
 
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==Sara Mah==
 
==Sara Mah==
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BACKGROUND
 
BACKGROUND
  
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* [https://english.vcu.edu/people/faculty/eckhardt.html Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, English Faculty]
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* PhD candidate at the Institute of Reformation History (University of Geneva)
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* Research/teaching focus: Early Modern English
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* MLitt in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews
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* Editor of online scholarly editions [https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/britva/ British Virginia]
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* Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science and Philosophy at the National University of Singapore
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* Faculty sponsor of the [https://rampages.us/superscripts/author/superscripts/ Superscripts]
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  
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* Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed books in early modern bookshops and libraries
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* Thesis: Understanding interpretations of suffering in 17th century Romandy and Scotland
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* Generally interested in accidents, unnatural death, and supernatural beliefs and practices
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* Side interest in 16th-19th century Southeast Asia
  
 
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
 
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
  
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* Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
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* Working on challenging palaeography projects
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* Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students
+
* Collaborating with people of various backgrounds on a history project
 
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==Michael Powell-Davies==
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[[File:MPD_pp_cropped.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Michael Powell-Davies]]
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BACKGROUND
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* [https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/3543/powell-davies-michael PhD candidate at the University of Kent] attached to the [https://middlingculture.com/ AHRC-funded Middling Culture project]
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* MA in Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission at King's College London in partnership with the British Library
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* BA (Hons) in English Literature at the University of Sheffield
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* The cultural lives of the middling sort in early modern maritime London
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* Narrative practices and the authorship of people and place
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* Textual cultures within mobile communities
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* My current research focusses largely on land-based maritime communities, so I am looking forward to working with some accounts of more mobile individuals
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* I am interested in how identities of people and places are formed within administrative texts
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* I am also just very excited to be involved in some collaborative work - looking forward to seeing what everyone brings along!
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==Lou Roper==
 
==Lou Roper==
 
[[File:Lou50.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Lou Roper]]
 
[[File:Lou50.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Lou Roper]]
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==Rebecca Rose==
 
==Rebecca Rose==
 
[[File:IMG 20210711 182404 5.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|Rebecca]]
 
[[File:IMG 20210711 182404 5.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|Rebecca]]
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==Tabitha Stanmore==
 
==Tabitha Stanmore==
 
[[File:Stanmore.jpeg|200px|thumbnail|left|Tabitha]]
 
[[File:Stanmore.jpeg|200px|thumbnail|left|Tabitha]]
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* Interest in different types of primary source
 
* Interest in different types of primary source
 
* Aiming to brush up my palaeography!
 
* Aiming to brush up my palaeography!
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==Kerry Apps==
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[[File:Kerry.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|Kerry Apps]]
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BACKGROUND
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Currently studying for an MPhil in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge
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Prior seven years as a Secondary Head of History during which time I led CPD sessions on teaching early empire and the Atlantic World
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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The English Atlantic world (with a focus this year upon the Caribbean)
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Indentured and enslaved labour in the Atlantic world as well as questions of race, community and identity pre-1660
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English colonialism in the c17th
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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Widening access to the early modern Atlantic world
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Practicing my palaeography!
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== Jennifer Moss Waghorn ==
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[[File:Dm7pKGSXgAAa1DB (1).jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Jennifer]]
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BACKGROUND
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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== Viv Weller ==
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[[File:VivWeller.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|Viv Weller]]
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'''Viv Weller''' spent 37 years as an A Level and GCSE History teacher in Leicestershire. Eventually, she decided to escape and return to her first love of studying History at university, graduating with an MA in English Local History at the University of Leicester in 2012. Viv's special interest is in Early Modern English History and her dissertation focused on the impact of the Reformation in Warwickshire between 1520-60.
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==Charlie Wilson==
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[[File:10685533 834354390011904 4032911219708183940 n.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Charlie Wilson]]
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BACKGROUND
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* MA Information and Library Management (University of Northumbria)
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* Home educator
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* Genealogist
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* Registrant of the Southgate one-name study with the Guild of One-Name Studies
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* Transatlantic trade, communication and travel
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Serendipitous discovery of this project while transcribing the transatlantic travel journal of Thomas Prince, who sailed for New England in 1717 and was very meticulous in his observations.
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* Particularly interested in how we communicate and share the findings
 +
* Expanding the reach of a valuable, name rich set of documents
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==Daisy Turnbull==
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[[File:Daisyturnbullhistorian.jpg|thumbnail]]
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BACKGROUND
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* B.A. in history and archaeology and M.A. in maritime archaeology at the University of Southampton (UoS)
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* Current split-site PHD candidate at the Universities of Portsmouth (UK) and Halmstad (SE)
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* Member of the Coastal Histories Network, Port Towns and Urban Cultures research group and the Nautical Archaeology Society
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* Archaeologist, Historian and Museums Professional
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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* Shipwrecking and coastal cultures
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* 18th and 19th century shipping
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* Maritime culture and trade
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* Handwritten manuscripts
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INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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* Expanding public assess to primary historical accounts
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* Interest in promoting collaborative work between academics and other members of the public
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* To expand upon my research skills and knowledge, particularly regarding palaeography and merchants marks 
 
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Latest revision as of 13:09, December 2, 2021

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 November 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.


Christopher Alimenti


Christopher

BACKGROUND

  • B.A. in English at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
  • Superscripts Member Superscripts
  • M.A. in English, specializing in Early Modern Literature and plague manuscripts at VCU


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Early Modern Plague remedies
  • Handwritten manuscripts


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Interest in a different manuscript hand
  • Ship logs

Joshua Eckhardt


Joshua

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

Jamie Gemmell


Jamie Gemmell

BACKGROUND

  • History Graduate; Masters by Research in History
  • Managing Director of Publish & Prosper
  • Member of the Northern Early Modern Network


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Race and coloniality in the seventeenth-century Anglo-Atlantic World
  • Early modern Black British Histories
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to history
  • Increasing accessibility to and engagement with early modern history


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Improving knowledge of seventeenth-century primary material
  • Contributing to a better understanding of early modern Atlantic networks

Peter Good


Peter

BACKGROUND

  • PhD from the University of Essex
  • Lecturer in Early Modern Europe and the Islamic World at the University of Kent, UK.


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange.


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Practicing and passing on palaeographic skills.
  • Learning more about the Atlantic World.

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

Ros Jones


Ros

BACKGROUND

  • BA PR with English Language and Linguistics
  • Published author of historical biography, "William Dobson: The King's Painter" (Tygers Head Books, 2016)


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • 17th century wills and handwritten documents, with a focus on the period of the English Civil Wars
  • Transcribing and digitising the complete records of the Calendar of the Committee for Compounding (1640s/50s)
  • Studying and transcribing mid 17th-century British newsbooks from the Thomason Tracts collection


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Opportunity to read and study 17th century documents (paleographic interest)
  • Collaborating on a project with likeminded researchers and historians
  • Contributing to a better understanding of the subject and times

Dylan M. LeBlanc


Dylan M. LeBlanc

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • British Atlantic and early American history, in particular political culture, port towns, microhistory and individual lives
  • Current book project: "The Two Husbands of Sarah Rhett: Trust and the Quest for Power in Early America"


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Staying connected in academic/research networks, collaborating, maintaining paleography skills
  • Giving students an opportunity to see the historical research process unfold

Sara Mah


Sara

BACKGROUND

  • PhD candidate at the Institute of Reformation History (University of Geneva)
  • MLitt in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews
  • Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science and Philosophy at the National University of Singapore


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Thesis: Understanding interpretations of suffering in 17th century Romandy and Scotland
  • Generally interested in accidents, unnatural death, and supernatural beliefs and practices
  • Side interest in 16th-19th century Southeast Asia


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Working on challenging palaeography projects
  • Collaborating with people of various backgrounds on a history project

Michael Powell-Davies

Michael Powell-Davies

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • The cultural lives of the middling sort in early modern maritime London
  • Narrative practices and the authorship of people and place
  • Textual cultures within mobile communities


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • My current research focusses largely on land-based maritime communities, so I am looking forward to working with some accounts of more mobile individuals
  • I am interested in how identities of people and places are formed within administrative texts
  • I am also just very excited to be involved in some collaborative work - looking forward to seeing what everyone brings along!


Lou Roper

Lou Roper

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • European, especially English, overseas commercial and colonizing activity in the long 17th century


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Improving access to HCA series manuscripts
  • Practicing my transcription and providing transcription opportunities for pupils



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 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!

Kerry Apps


Kerry Apps

BACKGROUND

Currently studying for an MPhil in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge

Prior seven years as a Secondary Head of History during which time I led CPD sessions on teaching early empire and the Atlantic World


RESEARCH INTERESTS

The English Atlantic world (with a focus this year upon the Caribbean)

Indentured and enslaved labour in the Atlantic world as well as questions of race, community and identity pre-1660

English colonialism in the c17th


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

Widening access to the early modern Atlantic world

Practicing my palaeography!

Jennifer Moss Waghorn


Jennifer

BACKGROUND


RESEARCH INTERESTS


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT


Viv Weller


Viv Weller

Viv Weller spent 37 years as an A Level and GCSE History teacher in Leicestershire. Eventually, she decided to escape and return to her first love of studying History at university, graduating with an MA in English Local History at the University of Leicester in 2012. Viv's special interest is in Early Modern English History and her dissertation focused on the impact of the Reformation in Warwickshire between 1520-60.







Charlie Wilson


Charlie Wilson

BACKGROUND

  • MA Information and Library Management (University of Northumbria)
  • Home educator
  • Genealogist
  • Registrant of the Southgate one-name study with the Guild of One-Name Studies


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Transatlantic trade, communication and travel


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Serendipitous discovery of this project while transcribing the transatlantic travel journal of Thomas Prince, who sailed for New England in 1717 and was very meticulous in his observations.
  • Particularly interested in how we communicate and share the findings
  • Expanding the reach of a valuable, name rich set of documents

Daisy Turnbull


Daisyturnbullhistorian.jpg

BACKGROUND

  • B.A. in history and archaeology and M.A. in maritime archaeology at the University of Southampton (UoS)
  • Current split-site PHD candidate at the Universities of Portsmouth (UK) and Halmstad (SE)
  • Member of the Coastal Histories Network, Port Towns and Urban Cultures research group and the Nautical Archaeology Society
  • Archaeologist, Historian and Museums Professional


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Shipwrecking and coastal cultures
  • 18th and 19th century shipping
  • Maritime culture and trade
  • Handwritten manuscripts


INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

  • Expanding public assess to primary historical accounts
  • Interest in promoting collaborative work between academics and other members of the public
  • To expand upon my research skills and knowledge, particularly regarding palaeography and merchants marks
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