All Outputs (12)

‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914 (2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). ‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914. Mariner's Mirror, 110(2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2331916

For more than a century and a half, apprenticeship was of fundamental importance to the recruitment and training of British seafarers. From the introduction of compulsory apprenticeship in 1703, through the removal of compulsion in 1850 and up to the... Read More about ‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914.

‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985 (2022)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2023). ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985. Journal for Maritime Research, 23(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/21533369.2022.2097855

The historiography of British distant-water fishing concentrates on the period prior to 1976 and the third ‘Cod War’ that saw British trawlers excluded from their principal fishing grounds. Little research has hitherto been done on the period afterwa... Read More about ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985.

The Effects of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Cork City and County, 1790-1830 (2021)
Thesis
Varley, P. J. (2021). The Effects of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Cork City and County, 1790-1830. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4923092

The region enjoyed vibrant economic growth during the periods of the wars between 1793 and 1815. This was due to a mixture of military and civilian economic stimulus. This thesis examines the different aspects of the military input to this fact and e... Read More about The Effects of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Cork City and County, 1790-1830.

The role of the Royal Navy in the support and advancement of British slavery, c.1782- 1808 : a study of the unsaid and unseen (2019)
Thesis
Pooley, M. A. The role of the Royal Navy in the support and advancement of British slavery, c.1782- 1808 : a study of the unsaid and unseen. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4270561

‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951 (2019)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2021). ‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951. Business history, 63(3), 353-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1576634

Fishing is a small, complex and fragmented industry, which arguably exerts political significance disproportionate to its size. This article traces the prolonged period of depression which affected British deep-sea fishing between the wars, and then... Read More about ‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951.

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 Press

First 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.

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

'The want of sufficient men': Labour recruitment and training in the British North Sea fisheries, 1850-1950 (2015)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2015). 'The want of sufficient men': Labour recruitment and training in the British North Sea fisheries, 1850-1950. International Journal of Maritime History, 27(4), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610504

Between 1815 and 1950 the British fishing industry underwent fundamental and far-reaching changes. The industry expanded rapidly in the half-century prior to the First World War, before entering a period of stagnation thereafter. The technology of fi... Read More about 'The want of sufficient men': Labour recruitment and training in the British North Sea fisheries, 1850-1950.

'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825 (2014)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2014). 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825. International Journal of Maritime History, 26(3), 471-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871414543445

© The Author(s) 2014. During the Napoleonic War, the Royal Navy grew to an unprecedented size, but with the return of peace it dispensed with the services of an also unprecedented 124,000 men. By 1818, around 90% of commissioned officers were unemplo... Read More about 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825.

The "poor decayed seamen" of Greenwich hospital, 1705-1763 (2013)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2013). The "poor decayed seamen" of Greenwich hospital, 1705-1763. International Journal of Maritime History, 25(1), 65-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/084387141302500104

The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, commonly known as Greenwich Hospital, is an institution both famous and oddly obscure. The broad outlines of its history are well documented, and the architectural history of its iconic buildings, which now... Read More about The "poor decayed seamen" of Greenwich hospital, 1705-1763.

Beyond the North Atlantic (2012)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2012). Beyond the North Atlantic. In D. Starkey, & I. Heidbrink (Eds.), A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries, Volume 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twentieth-First Century. Hauschild Verlag

Opening paragraphs:
Fisheries have long been conducted over a wide geographical range. European fishers first exploited the cod stocks that live off Newfoundland in the early sixteenth century (Innis 1940: 11-2), by which time Icelandic waters had b... Read More about Beyond the North Atlantic.

Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70 (2012)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2012). Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70. Business history, 54(5), 741-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631128

It is well known that the railways facilitated the development of the British fishing industry in the nineteenth century. Using sources only recently made available for research, this article explores the relationship between the fish trade and railw... Read More about Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70.