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Revision as of 09:48, June 15, 2014
Week Three Team Exercise
Editorial history
Created 15/06/14 by CSG
Purpose of page
This page sets our a team exercise which Team Three will we working on in Week Three of the MarineLives 2014 Summer Programme
Contents
Suggested links
Goals
- To develop our research skills to explore places and material goods, using Virginia and Tobacco as a case example
Search hints
General search hints
Search the three major wikis (in terms of numbers of pages transcribed and searchable)
AnnotateHCA1371 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1372 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1373 Front_Page
You may also wish to search
Researching Virginia in the Admiralty Court Records
Think about geographical search terms and their spelling variants, e.g.
Virginia
Yorke River/York River
Jamestowne/Jamestown/James Towne/James Town
Researching Tobacco in the Admiralty Court Records
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Questions to explore
What were the ports of origin of ships visiting Virginia, and what routes did they take?
- Direct voyages from London and Bristol to Virginia?
- Indirect voyages from London (and elsewhere) via Guinea Coast and Angolan Coast of Africa?
Can you identify trading links between Virginia and Barbados, between Virginia and New England, and Virginia and the Bermudas?
- What goods were traded between these places?
Interesting cases
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Interesting individuals
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Interesting ships
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Synthesis: Virginia
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Synthesis: Tobacco
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