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Centre for maritime historical studies
postgraduate Students
Masters Students
Recently completed MAs
Doctoral students
Recently completed PhDs
Recently completed MPhils
Masters Students
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James BARRATT, 'Drunkenness in the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth-century'.
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Andrew BAINES,
'The Ironclad as a recruitment mechanism – The Channel Squadron's 1863 round-Britain tour'.
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Robert DAY, ' Escort groups: their role in the defeat of the U-Boat'.
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Michael DICKSON
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Anthony (Richard) HULLEY, 'The Empire Cruise, 1923-24'.
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Andrew PLUMBLY
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Recently Completed Masters Degrees
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Jeremiah DANCY, 'The Social Impact of Manning the Navy in Devon, 1793 - 1803' (2008).
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John DAY, 'The Role of the Commissioner at the
Cape of Good Hope, 1809-1813'
(2007).
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Edward FOX, ‘Jacobinism and the Golden Age of Piracy, 1715-1725 (2009)'.
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Michael GODDARD, 'Why are William Dampier's achievements inferior to those of Captain Cook in public memory? (2009)'
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Steven HALL, 'Why did the battleship die? A study of Design, Policy, Strategy, and Air Defence' (2007).
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William McCRACKEN III,
'Patterns of Captains in the Royal Navy, 1701-1815' (2009).
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Joshua NEWTON, 'The Temple Admiralty and Naval Policy under the Pitt-Devonshire Ministry' (2007).
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Anne POND, 'The Development of the Falmouth & Plymouth Docks in the Nineteenth Century' (2010).
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Joan PRICE, 'Exploration, collection, classification - and publication of the science done on Endeavour'' (2010).
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David ROE,
'The Importance and Limits of Sea Power during the French Revolutionary Wars' (2009).
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Edward SCAPLEHORN, 'Merchant Aircraft Carriers: Civilian Fighting Ships' (2009).
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Kenneth SCHOLTENS, 'Piracy: A Subculture of the Atlantic Community, circa 1680-1720' (2007).
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Peter SIMS, 'Young Gentlemen: An analysis of theCareers of Aspirants to a Commission in the Royal Navy Before the Revolutionary War' (2006)
Currently engaged on research for a biography of the Brothers Bowen (Captain Richard 1761-1797, and Admiral James 1751-1835).
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George STEPHENSON, 'Shipwrights' apprentices, 1700 - 1800' (2008).
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Will STIRLING, ' Building and supply of revenue cutters for the Revenue Service between 1800 and 1850' (2007).
For further information please see Revenue Cutters and Smuggling Luggers website
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Joanna THOMAS, ‘Seafaring Women in the late 19th Century' (2009)..
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Barry WILKINSON, 'The Q-Ships - Success or Failure?' (2007).
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Gavin WILSON, ‘The British Navy and the mental health of seamen in the 18 th and early 19 th centuries' (2009).
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Britt ZERBE, 'A Social and Military History of the Royal Marines in the Age of Nelson'
(2007).
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Doctoral Students
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Joan ABELA,
'Economic and social effects which the establishment of the Knights Hospitalliers had on an agrarian society such as was medieval Malta' .
(Supervisors: Dr. M. Fusaro)
‘Port Activities in mid sixteenth century Malta', in Rediscovering Valletta , Malta Historical Society Lectures, Malta, October 2007.
‘Some Early Forms of Financial Instruments found in Mid Sixteenth Century Malta', in Storja 2008 , Malta University Historical Society, 2008.
‘ De Uxore Proxima Futura Magistri Hieronymi Cassar – New Light on Girolamo Cassar's Immediate Family', Melita Historica , Vol. XVI No.4 (2009).
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Tim BEATTIE,
'Noble Undertakings: The impact of three cruising voyages on the perception of British maritime achievement in the first half of the
Eighteenth Century'
(Supervisors: Dr. M. Duffy and Dr. J. Barry)
'Adventuring your Estate: The origins, costs and rewards of Woodes Rogers's privateering voyage of 1708-11', Mariner's Mirror Vol. 93 No. 2
(May 2007), pp.143-155.
Ronald CHRISTOPHER, '
British influence on Union and Confederate Naval strategies in the American civil war'
(Supervisors: Prof. J. Black and Dr. M Reiss)
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Coriann CONVERTITO-FARRAR,
'The Health of British Seamen in the West Indies, 1770-1806'
(Supervisor: Dr. R. Morriss)
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John DAY,
'The Development of British Foreign Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793 - 1815'
(Supervisor: Dr. R. Morriss)
Anne EVANS,
'The impact of the East India Company on the economy of the south-west of England , 1740-1820'
(Supervisor: Dr. R. Morriss)
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Michael FARQUHARSON-ROBERTS, 'To the Nadir and Back: Executive Officers of the Royal Navy between the two
World Wars'
(Supervisor: Dr. M. Duffy)
'The LUCIA mutiny: a failure of the Royal Navy's internal communications', in RUSI Journal, April 2009, Vol 154, No 2 pp. 104-107.
'Limb Injury', in Ballistic Trauma, Ryan, Rich, Dale, Morgans, and Cooper (1997), Arnolds Publication Series .
' Combined rotational and lengthening osteotomy for rotational and shortening mal-union of the femur' in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) 1995;Vol77(6):pp. 979-80.
'Perforation of the small bowel due to slow release potassium', Farquharson-Roberts et al, in British Medical Journal 1975 July 26; Vol3 (5977): p206.
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Edward FOX
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Kate HAMBLIN , 'The social status of engineering: a comparative study of British, French and German marine engineers since 1830 '
(Supervisor: Prof N. Rodger)
‘‘Men of brain and brawn and guts': The Professionalization of Marine Engineering in Britain , France and Germany from 1830', (European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon 2008).
Upcoming: ‘From "engine-man" to "Engineer Officer": The concerns which led to the registration of engineers at sea in Britain and Europe in the mid-late Nineteenth Century', (Historical Association, Exeter Branch, January 2009).
‘Officer, Engineer, Professional, Trade Unionist: A century of Marine Engineer Officers and their organization in Britain , France and Germany , 1860-1960', (43rd Maritime History Conference, University of Exeter, 2009).
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Richard HAMMOND, 'The British Anti-Shipping Campaign in the Mediterranean 1940-1944: Comparing Methods of Attack'
(Supervisors: Prof R. Overy and Dr. D. Redford)
Conference/seminar papers:
'The British Anti-Shipping Campaign in the Mediterranean, 1940-1944: A Combined Arms Offensive'. British Commission for Maritime History Seminars, King's College London. Forthcoming October 2011.
British Aero-Naval Co-Operation in the Mediterranean and the Formation of RAF No. 201 (Naval Co-Operation) Group', ‘Transformation and Innovation in the British Military, 1642 to the Present Day', University of Birmingham. Forthcoming April 2011.
‘The British and Allied Aerial Anti-Shipping Campaign in the Mediterranean, 1940-1944'. Military History Seminars, Institute of Historical Research. December 2010.
‘A One Man Band? The Identity of British Submarine Commanders in the Second World War'. 44th Exeter Maritime History Conference. University of Exeter. September 2010.
‘Fighting Under a Different Flag: The Operations and Effectiveness of British Controlled Allied Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1940-1944'. 22nd British International History Group Annual Conference. St Anthony's College, Oxford. September 2010.
‘RAF No 201 (Naval Co-operation) Group: A Study in Integration and Difference'. ‘Histfest', University of Lancaster. May 2010.
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Dennis HASLOP,
‘Learning and implementing lessions of convoy warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic: A comparative study.
(Supervisor: Dr. M. Duffy)
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Derek JANES, The Business of Smuggling in SE Scotland c. 1740 - 1796"
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Supervisors: Prof H French and Dr. H. Doe)
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Michael LEA-O'MAHONEY, ' 'The role of the navy during the English Civil War'
(Supervisor: Dr. M. Duffy)
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Sarah PARSONS, ‘Religious culture and the sea in early modern England'
(Supervisors: Prof. N. Rodger and Prof. A. Walsham)
‘‘Flags and banners' or ‘sobernes, as in the presence of God': sacred space aboard English ships, c. 1580-1640', April 2008, Reformation Studies Colloquium.
‘The Religion of English Seafarers in the Early Modern Period', February 2008, International Commission for Maritime History King's Seminars.
‘The ‘wonders in the deep' and the ‘mighty tempest of the sea': Nature, providence and English seafarers' piety, c. 1580-1640', July 2008, Ecclesiastical History Society Conference.
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W.M.E. (Marcus) PITCAITHLY,‘The role of violence at sea in Anglo-Hanseatic relations, 1385-1420'
(Supervisor: Prof. N. Rodger)
“Piracy in Anglo-Hanseatic Relations” presented to the British Commission for Maritime History, King's College, London , in May 2008, and to the Rye Conference on the Medieval Sea , Rye College , October 2008.
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Elinor ROMANS, ‘Selection and early career education of Royal Navy executive officers c 1903- 39'.
(Supervisor: Prof. N. Rodger)
'Sea Kings of Britain: Exemplars for Royal Navy officers 1919-39' presented to Histfest, 2009.
'Boat work for Royal Navy midshipman c1919- 39' (43rd Exeter Maritime History Conference, 2009).
‘The Internal Economy of the Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century’ in The Mariner's Mirror Volume 94 no 1 (February 2008).
'Boat Work for Royal Navy Midshipmen c 1919-39’ in Institute of Seamanship Journal (December 2009).
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Douglas RONALD, 'Contemporary representation of boy sailors in Britain 's Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Fact in fiction'.
(Supervisor: Prof. J. Black and Prof. G. MacLean)
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Edward SCAPLEHORN, 'Auxiliary Fleet - Merchant Ships in Combat Roles in the Twentieth Century'
(Supervisors: Dr. L. Rowe and Dr. D. Redford).
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Margaret WILTON TODD, 'What did Charles II Conceived to be the Role of His Navy, and how fit for Purpose was it, with particular reference to the period 1660-1665'
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Peter WARD, ‘The East Indies Station under the command of Vice Admiral of the Red Peter Rainier 1794-1805'
(Supervisor: Dr. M. Duffy)
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Jonathan WISE, ‘ The Royal Navy's Role in Safeguarding UK Interests Overseas (1947-1997)'
(Supervisor: Dr. J. Smith)
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Recently Completed PhDs
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Moira BRACKNALL, ‘Lord Spencer, Patronage and Commissioned Officers' Careers, 1794-1801' (2008)
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Samantha A. CAVELL, ‘A Social History of Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the Royal Navy, 1761-1831' (2010)
'Midshipmen of the Great Wars: a new social elite?', The Nelson Society, Plymouth Naval Dockyard, February 2008.
'Young Gentlemen and the Admiralty's Social Agenda, 1793-1815', New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2008: University of Salford , March 2008.
'The Midshipman's ‘Mutiny': social politics and young gentlemen in the Royal Navy, 1759-1815', “Ship to Shore” Lecture Series 2009, National Maritime Museum, Feb 2009.
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Gareth COLE, ‘The Ordnance Board and the Royal Navy 1790-1815' (2008)
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Dr Graham CUSHWAY, ‘The Admiralty and the fleet in the reign of Edward III' (2007)
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Dr Helen DOE, ‘Enterprising women: nineteenth-century maritime businesswomen' (2007)
Books: Jane Slade of Polruan, Truran, Redruth, 2002, 128pp.;
An Introduction to Cornish Maritime History, Tor Mark Press, Redruth, forthcoming November 2006.
Articles: 'The Business of Shipbuilding: Dunn and Henna of Mevagissey, 1799-1806' International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 Dec 2006;
'Politics, Property and Family Resources: The Business Strategies of Small Shipbuilders' Journal of Family and Community History, Vol. 4, No. 1, May 2001.
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Dr Andrew LITTLE, ‘British subjects in the Dutch navy of the seventeenth century' (2007).
Publications, edited collections:
‘British seamen in the United Provinces during the seventeenth century Anglo-Dutch Wars: the Dutch navy – a preliminary survey', in, A. J. Brand (ed.), Trade, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: Continuity and Change in the North Sea and Baltic region, c1350-1750 (Verloren, Hilversum , 2006) [section online at Google Books].
‘A comparative survey of Scottish service in the English and Dutch maritime communities, c1650-1707', in Alexia Grosjean & Steve Murdoch (eds.), Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period, (Brill, Leiden , 2005).
‘British seamen in the Dutch navy, c1650-1720: a preliminary survey', in Paul Rees (ed.), New Researchers 2004, Papers presented at the twelfth annual New Researchers in Maritime History conference (National Museums Liverpool, 2005).
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Byrne MACLEOD, 'The eighteenth century English navy from the perspective of Captain Thomas Burnett and his peers' (2010).
'The Crews of Captain Herbert Huntington Brown, a Bluenose Skipper from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1843-1892' in Mariner's Mirror Vol 94 No 1. (February 2008) Dr Roger PARKINSON,‘The Naval Defence Act of 1889 and the origins of the new navalism of the 1890s', (2007)
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Dr Shinsuke SATSUMA, ' Ideas about Economic Advantages of Maritime War and their Impacts upon the British Politics and Naval Policy, 1701-29' (2009)
'The South Sea Company and its plan for a naval expedition in 1712' presented at the British Maritime History Seminars 2009-10: War and Peace in the Eighteenth Century, convened by the National Maritime Museum and held at the Institute of Historical Research, October 2009.
'The British Maritime Empire and Plunder: A Historiography of the Privateering and Piracy in Early Modern North Ameircan and Caribbean Colonies' in Seiyoshigaku (The studies in Western History), No. 225, pp.46-59 (2007).
'The Suppression of the Pirates of the Bahamas by the Governor Woodes Rogers 1718-21' in Seiyoshi Ronso (Studies in Western History) No.26, pp.15-35.(2004).Dr Wanda TROMAN, 'Anglo-Polish naval relations between the two World Wars', (2000)
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Dr Carlos TROMBEN CORBALAN, ‘The causes, path and consequences of the Chilean navy mutiny of 1931' (2010)
''El Pacto de Ayuda Mutua y su Influencia en la Armada de Chile' in Revistas de estudios norteamericanos , forthcoming 2007,
'Valparaíso, la Armada y la Marina Mercante' in F. Vergara ed., Tributo a Valparaíso, Ediciones Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2007, pp. 221-236
‘Contributions of U.S. Naval Educational Centers to the Development of the Chilean Navy in Relation to Naval Operations and Industry, 1945-1975', in The International Journal of Naval History , 5 (2006), pp. 1-17.
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Dr Tim VOELCKER, ‘ From Post-Captain to Diplomat: The Transformation of Admiral Sir James Saumarez in the Napoleonic Wars' (2007)
Book: "Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon: The Baltic, 1807-1812" (Boydell & Brewer, 2008)
Article: “Admiral Sir James Saumarez – Sweden 's Friendliest Enemy, 1808-12”, in Forum Navale Nr.63 ( Sjöhistorisk Samfundet, Stockholm, 2007).
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Adrian WEBB, ' The management and role of the Hydrographic Department 1808-1829 ' (2010)
'Captain William King RN, the Admiralty Packet Service at Falmouth and the Hydrographic Office, 1823-1829' in Troze (September 2009). 'Who ran the British Hydrographic Office, 1808-1829?' in Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, Portsmouth 2008 (Johannesburg, 2009).
Somerset wills: the Moger Collection (Somerset Record Society, 2008).
Two Tudor Subsidy Assessments for the county of Somerset: 1558 and 1581-82 (Somerset Record Society, 2002).
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Dr Philip WEIR, ‘The Royal Navy, the Fleet Air Arm and tactical development in the inter-war period (1918-39)', (2007)
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Dr Brit ZERBE, ''The Royal Navy and the Invasion Bogey, 1898-1918' (2010)
'The Marine Corps: the creation of an eighteenth-century rapid-reaction force' at Institute of Historical Research (London) 'British Maritime History' Seminars, November 2009
"The Marine Officer is a raw lad, and therefore troublesome": development of a officers class' at 43rd Exeter Maritime History Conference (University of Exeter), September 2009
‘Attack on Goree: the Marine Corps and the Birth of an Imperial Rapid Reaction Force' at "1759: An Interdisciplinary Conference" (Belfast) April 2009
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Recently Completed MPhils
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Michael BAKER, '
A study of sylviculture and its relationship to the English timber trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' , (2006)
Articles: 'Dutch Wars and French Peace', Maritime South West Journal, Vol. 20, (2007), pp.105-123;
The Transportation of Timber in
timber built ships and 'Hearts of Oak'...the great prejudice', Maritime South West Journal, Vol. 19, (2006), pp.133-167;
'Robert Southey,his biography
of Nelson and the 'deplorable transaction', Mariners’ Mirror, 91:2 (2005), pp. 324-328;
'Lord Nelson and the English Timber Cartel', Maritime South West Journal, Vol. 16, (2003), pp. 95-105;
'The English Timber
Cartel in the Napoleonic War', Mariners’ Mirror, 88:1 (2002), pp. 79-81;
'Gabriel Snodgrass-Shipbuilder', Maritime South West Journal, Vol. 14, (2001), pp.111-115;
‘Lord Nelson and John Bowsher', Mariners’ Mirror, 86:3 (2000), pp. 310-315.
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Geoffrey DOYE, 'Communities in crisis: a social history of South Devon coastal communities, 1815-80' (2007)
Articles: ''Throw out your bread, throw out your tommy': the Torquay Food Riots of 1847' , in Southern History 2003 (25);
'Oranges and Lemons: The Rise and Fall of the West Country Shipping Involvement with the Fruit Trade', in Maritime South West 2006 .
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