MarineLives
Welcome to the MarineLives project
The MarineLives collaborative public history project was established in 2012 to digitise, transcribe and annotate the manuscript records of the English High Court of Admiralty from the 1650s and 1660s. The original records are held at the National Archives in Kew. The project is led and advised by academics and members of the general public.
Our team based transcription programmes
We run regular team based transcription programmes, facilitated by trained team leaders, with teams of three or four volunteer associates. These programmes last twelve weeks, and will take a transcriber from a novice to a confident transcriber in that space of time.
To learn more about our programmes read what our volunteers have to say - Katie Parker (a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburg), Thomas Davies (a third year undergraduate at Bath Spa University), and Roger Towner (a regulator of seafarers' qualifications, who has spent twenty five years at sea as a navigator and Master)
Please contact us to discuss volunteering, or to explore how we might work with your University, School or Local History Society.
Explore our transcriptions
Act Books
HCA 3/43 – HCA 3/48 |
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Depositions
HCA 13/64 – HCA 13/73
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Personal answers
HCA 13/124 – HCA 13/129
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Instance papers
HCA 15/5 – HCA 15/7
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Interrogatories
HCA 23/15 – HCA 23/19 |
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Sentence bundles
HCA 24/110 – HCA 24/114
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