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‘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.

‘For the Betterment of the Industry:’ The Establishment and Work of the White Fish Commission, 1936-9 (2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). ‘For the Betterment of the Industry:’ The Establishment and Work of the White Fish Commission, 1936-9. Mariner's Mirror, 110(4), 456-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2408175

Between the wars, the British fishing industry faced an invidious economic climate. Costs rose, overfishing and falling prices depressed incomes, and structural faults that had mattered little in the years of growth prior to 1914 became serious hand... Read More about ‘For the Betterment of the Industry:’ The Establishment and Work of the White Fish Commission, 1936-9.