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==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022==
  
==About MarineLives==
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'''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database'''
  
[[File:About MarineLives 22012018.JPG|800px|thumb|left|MarineLives volunteers, past and present, 2015-2018. [[Tools: Biographies|Read more about them here]]]]
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[[File:Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG]]
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==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?==
  
[[File:Jan 2018 Bio Pics 11012018.JPG|400px|thumb|right|Two of our seven latest MarineLives volunteers, starting in January 2018. Planned activities include working on the [[Tools: Textiles, garments, & dyes glossary|Textiles, Garments & Dyestuffs glossary]], transcribing textiles & dyeing inventories, and generally improving C17th manuscript transcription skills, with [[Tools: January 2018 volunteer group goals & background|plenty more potential activities available]]]]
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'''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'''
  
'''MarineLives is a collaborative volunteer driven project. The project started as a spinoff from a National Archives hackathon in early 2012. We are dedicated to the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the English High Court of Admiralty, 1627 to 1677, together with thematically related manuscripts from international manuscript and printed document collections'''
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Participants will:
  
Currently, we have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} text pages and {{NUMBEROFFILES}} images available and nearly six million words of full text transcriptions on the MarineLives wiki.
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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
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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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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
  
[[Tools: Basic wiki skills & palaeographical tips|Sample our training material to see if this could be for you.]]
 
 
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==This week's Feature: Three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s: HCA 30/636/==
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==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database==
  
[[File:About MarineLives 22012018.JPG|800px|thumb|left|MarineLives volunteers, past and present, 2015-2018. [[Tools: Biographies|Read more about them here]]]]
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[[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]]
  
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==Volunteering with MarineLives==
 
  
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==What we would like in return?==
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'''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:'''
<div style="font-size: normal;">'''Our volunteers make our projects 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 the MarineLives project, to the Maphackathon event, to the Early Modern Textiles, Garments and Dyestuffs glossary and to the Signs of Literacy initiative (in alphabetical order), whether as volunteer transcribers, annotators, commentators, glossary contributors, advisors, interviewees, workshop participants, or PhD Forum participants.
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1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions
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2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database
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* Thematically
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* Searchability
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* Usability
 
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==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024==
Dr Kimberly Alexander
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Christian Algar
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Dr Aaron Allen
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Elizabeth Ames
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Dr Roberta Anderson
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Vicky Annand
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Dr Carolyn Arena
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Deborah Ashby
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Dr Gary Baker
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Gabor Bakos
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Iona Bartzi
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Rachel Bates
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Rowan Beentje
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Nga Bellis-Phan
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Michael Bennett
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Amber Berkeley
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Dr Richard Blakemore
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Lior Blum
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Ffion Boyd
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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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Joshua Calloway
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Michelle María Early Capistrán
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Rachel Carter
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Cynthia Chin
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Nicola Clarke
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Freyalyn Close-Hainsworth
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Dalton Coker
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Dr Giovanni Colavizza
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Dr Justin Colson
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Sam Cottrell
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Kevin Daniells
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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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Eglantine
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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 Karwah Fatah-Black
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Dr Amelia Fay
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Dr Janet Few
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Christian Folgar
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Sara Fox
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Dr Anthony Firth
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Erin French
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Dr Ian Friel
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Professor Cheryl Fury
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Steve Garnett
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Dr Perry Gauci
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Marja Geesink
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Jaap Geraerts
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Helen Good
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Dr 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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Justin Grierson
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Tracey E Griffiths
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Dr Adam Grimshaw
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Karen Gunnell
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Yerevag Hagopian
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Dr Mark Hailwood
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Kevin Hall
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Finn Halligan
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Viveka Hansen
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Elaine Harrington
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Dr Liam Haydon
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Phillipa Hellawell
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Laura Herbert
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Dr Helmer Helmers
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Dave Henderson
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Dr Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter
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Professor Tracey Hill
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Professor Tim Hitchcock
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Dr Philip Hnatkovich
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Rachel E. Holmes
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Jeffrey Hopper
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Dr Jenni Hyde
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Dr Tom Irvine
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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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Menno Jonker
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Dr Sam Kaislaniemi
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Ross Keel
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Dr Patricia Keller
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William Kellett
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Sara J Kerr
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Heather Knight
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Iris Kramer
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Dr Marcin Krygier
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John Kuhn
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Dr Craig Lambert
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John Layt
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Deborah Leem
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Dr Sjoerd Levelt
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Amalia Skarlatou Levi
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John Levin
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M. L. Logue
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Jelle van Lottum
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Ismail Malik
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Grace Mallon
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Paula Marmor
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Simon Marsh
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Dr Alan Marshall
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Dr Barbara McGillivray
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Dr Angela McShane
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Angela Middleton
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John Miller
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Anne Mills
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Kate Morant
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[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/User:MatthiasMuellerProve Matthias Müller-Prove]
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Professor Steve Murdoch
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Dr Shavana Musa
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Maurice Nicolson
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Stephanie Ostrich
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Frances Owen
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Gordon O'Sullivan
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Dr Katherine Parker
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Tim Parry-Williams
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David Pashley
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Dr Michael Pearce
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Dr Cathryn Pearce
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Elizabeth Pimblett
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Dr Sophie Pittman
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Professor Simone Paolo Ponzetto
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Mark Ponte
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Dr Peter Pridal
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Dr Jo Pugh
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Seif Al Rashidi
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Dr Peter Rauxloh
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Patrizia Rebulla
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Dr Benjamin Redding
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Jarmila Regulova
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Bethan Reynolds
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Daniel Richards
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Harriet Richardson
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Andrew Richens
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Dr Mia Ridge
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Dr Dominique Ritze
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Dr Gavin Robinson
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Glen Robson
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Dr Helen Rogers
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Dr Jill Rogers
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Axel Hee Rømer
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Celine Romano
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Dr Margaret Schotte
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Steven Schrum
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Dr Louise Seaward
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Andrei Seleznov
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Laura Seymour
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John Sheridan
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Dr Deborah Sherlock
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Dr Rainer Simon
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Ida Sjoberg
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Petr Sloup
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Dr Edmond Smith
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Tilly Smith
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Dr Stephen Snelders
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Professor Humphrey Southall
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Dr Craig Spence
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Daniel Stewart-Roberts
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Dr Hannah Steyne
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Ian Stoll
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Michael Stoner
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Dr Chad Stolper
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Peter Taylor
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Dr Carl Thompson
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Dr Samantha Thompson
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Roger Towner
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Dr Alexis Truax
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Dr William Tullett
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Martin Turner
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Oliver Turner
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David Underdown
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Rebecca Unsworth
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Dr Brodie Waddell
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Rebecca Want
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Samuel Watson
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Dominic Webb
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Ken Whittaker
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Jill Wilcox
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Peter Williams
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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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Dr Cäcilia Zirn
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and the ever helpful Gijs Boink, formerly the anonymous [https://twitter.com/_mapnut @_mapnut]
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==Marine Lives tools: Communal C17th Textiles, Garments & Dyestuffs glossary==
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[[File:Clothing Of Common Sort Spufford Mee 2017 18012018.JPG|450px|thumb|left|Dr Susan Mee, member of the glossary sub-group, is co-author of the recently published book, [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-clothing-of-the-common-sort-1570-1700-9780198807049?cc=us&lang=en&# Margaret Spufford & Susan Mee, The Clothing of the Common Sort, 1570-1700 (Pasold Studies in Textile History, Oxford University Press, 2017)]]]
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'''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.'''
  
[[File:Textiles & Garments Sleuths 18012018.JPG|600px|thumb|right|[https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg Tweet us] or [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact Email us] your contributions. To learn more about the Textiles, Garments & Dyestuffs volunteer sub-group which is coordinating this glossary [[Tools: Textiles, garments & dyestuffs glossary sub-group|click here]]. Do please consider joining]]
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<u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u>
  
'''Purpose'''
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PEOPLE
  
'''On December 24th, 2017, The MarineLives team launched a [[Tools: Textiles, garments, & dyes glossary|communally created glossary of textiles, garments, & dyes]], with terms and examples  taken from early and mid-C17th English High Court of Admiralty documents, second half of the C17th Chancery Court documents relating to commercial disputes, second half of the C17th Prerogative Court of Canterbury merchants' inventories, and a London coastal portbook from the 1650s.'''
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* 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town
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* 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place
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* 1675 deponents with place of birth identified
  
The terms are referenced to primary manuscript sources, typically linked to manuscript images and full text transcriptions. As of 18/01/2018, the glossary contains ca. 1000 terms, with contributions from thirty individuals.
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SHIPS
  
'''Contributing to the glossary'''
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* 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
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* 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership
  
We are using the [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @Marinelivesorg] Twitter account to solicit new commentary and edits on specific terms, which we are incorporating into the glossary. We will acknowledge all contributions, but reserve the right (with the agreement of contributors) to make small editorial changes. Recent tweets related to the glossary can be found at [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23C17textilesglossary&src=tyah #C17textilesglossary]
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MATERIALS
  
'''Contributors'''
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* 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports
  
In alphabetical order:
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- '''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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MICROHISTORY
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* Depositions related to:
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- The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe)
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- Customs Houses
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- Taverns, inns and victualling houses
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- Private homes
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- Warehouses and cellars
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- Wharves and keys
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- Shops
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[[File:Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
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[[File:Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
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[[File:Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
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[[File:Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
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[[File:Micor History 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
  
Dr Kimberly Alexander, Dr Aaron Allen, Dr Carolyn Arena, Cynthia Chin, Nicola Clarke, Freyalynn Close-Hainsworth, Eglantine, Dr Karwan Fatah-Black, Helen Good, Colin Greenstreet, Tracey E Griffiths, Viveka Hansen, Dave Henderson, Dr Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter, Jeffrey Hopper; Heather Knight, Dr Marcin Krygier, M.L. Logue, Dr Angela McShane, the pseudonymous Mapnut, Paula Marmor, Menno Jonker, Angela Middleton, Frances Owen, Tim Parry-Williams, Mark Ponte, Dr Michael Pearce, Elizabeth Pimblett, Dr Sophie Pitman, Dr Jo Pugh, Dr Deborah Sherlock, Dr Stephen Snelders, Ian Stoll, Peter Taylor, Dr Samantha Thompson, Rebecca Unsworth
 
 
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==This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar==
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[[File:Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG]]
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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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* Seminar is limited to 20 participants
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* We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event
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* Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024
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* Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024

Latest revision as of 06:03, April 10, 2024




MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022


We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database

Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG



Who will benefit from attending this seminar?


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

Participants will:

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



Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database


Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database


What we would like in return?


In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:

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

  • Thematically
  • Searchability
  • Usability


What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024


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.

1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database

PEOPLE

  • 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


SHIPS

  • 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
  • 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership


MATERIALS

  • 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports


- 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


MICROHISTORY

  • 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

Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG
Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG
Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG
Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG
Micor History 07042024.JPG

This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar


Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG



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

  • Seminar is limited to 20 participants
  • We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event
  • Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024
  • Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024