Private enterprise, public policy and the development of Britain’s seafaring workforce, 1650-1815
(2017)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. (2017). Private enterprise, public policy and the development of Britain’s seafaring workforce, 1650-1815. In C. A. Fury (Ed.), The social history of English seamen 1605-1815 (147-182). Boydell Press
All Outputs (14)
Dock Development, 1778-1914 (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2017). Dock Development, 1778-1914. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (117-144). Liverpool University PressFirst paragraph:
Hull owes its existence to water transport. Located at the mouth of the River Hull, where the deep-water channel of the Humber sweeps along its north bank, it is a natural transhipment point, and although the town (as it is properly... Read More about Dock Development, 1778-1914.
The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2017). The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (145-177). Liverpool University PressFirst paragraph:
When the results of the 2011 UK Census were made public in 2013 the BBC’s Six O’Clock News ran a live television broadcast from the city to herald a remarkable transformation – Hull was now home to a migrant population of 12,000 Eur... Read More about The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.
Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Byrne, J., & Ombler, A. (2017). Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (270-301). Liverpool University PressFirst paragraph:
At the close of the Second World War, as the port-city of Hull faced the challenge of rebuilding an urban fabric shattered by wartime bombing, its maritime industries prepared to return to business as usual. Hull’s trawl fishery an... Read More about Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull.
William Papper (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. William Papper (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press
William Colbeck (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). William Colbeck (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University PressOpening paragraph:
People from Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire played a significant role in the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (1897-1922). Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, who envisaged and oversaw the... Read More about William Colbeck (Vignette).
The Bounty (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). The Bounty (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University PressOpening paragraph:
The shipbuilding firm owned by the Blaydes family built the Bethia in their North End Yard on the River Hull, close to their base at Blaydes House, High Street (now Hull University’s Maritime Historical Studies Centre). The Bethia... Read More about The Bounty (Vignette).
A persistent phenomenon: private prize-taking in the British Atlantic world, c.1540-1856 (2014)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. J., & McCarthy, M. (2014). A persistent phenomenon: private prize-taking in the British Atlantic world, c.1540-1856. In S. Eklöf Amirell, & L. Müller (Eds.), Persistent Piracy (131-151). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352866_7The British Atlantic world was ‘created by kaleidoscopic movements of people, goods and ideas’ that spiralled out of England, Scotland and Ireland (hereafter, Britain) from the sixteenth century onwards.1 A desire to gain at the expense of foreigners... Read More about A persistent phenomenon: private prize-taking in the British Atlantic world, c.1540-1856.
'To excite the whole company to courage and bravery': the incentivisation of British privateering crews, 1702-1815 (2012)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. (2012). 'To excite the whole company to courage and bravery': the incentivisation of British privateering crews, 1702-1815. In H. Doe, & R. Harding (Eds.), Naval Leadership and Management, 1650-1950. Essays in Honour of Michael Duffy (123-140). Boydell & Brewer
Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914 (2012)
Book Chapter
Barnard, M. G., & Starkey, D. J. (2012). Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914. In G. Harlaftis, S. Tenold, & J. M. Valdaliso (Eds.), The World’s Key Industry : History and Economics of International Shipping (200-219). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003751_12Skip Fischer has suggested that maritime historians often fail to situate their studies ‘within the broader debates that animate discussion and research in the larger [historical] profession’. While this may be true of many branches of the history di... Read More about Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914.
Nach der Pfeife des Handels tanzen – die britische Seetransportindustrie von 1850 bis 1990 (2011)
Journal Article
Starkey, D. (2011). Nach der Pfeife des Handels tanzen – die britische Seetransportindustrie von 1850 bis 1990. Zeitschrift Für Weltgeschichte, 12(2), 45-75. https://doi.org/10.3726/84535_45
Voluntaries and Sea Robbers: A review of the academic literature on privateering, corsairing, buccaneering and piracy (2011)
Journal Article
Starkey, D. J. (2011). Voluntaries and Sea Robbers: A review of the academic literature on privateering, corsairing, buccaneering and piracy. Mariner's Mirror, 97(1), 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2011.10709036
Oceans past: an environmental approach to maritime history (2010)
Book Chapter
Barnard, M., & Starkey, D. (2010). Oceans past: an environmental approach to maritime history. In Merihistorian Rajapintoja: Nautica Fennica 2009-2010 (44409). Suomen Merimuseo
The press gang: naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. New York: Continuum, 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Starkey, D. (2009). The press gang: naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. New York: Continuum, 2008. Journal of Military History, 73(4), 1327 - 1328