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After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry (2015)
Journal Article
Byrne, J. (2015). After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry. International Journal of Maritime History, 27(4), 816-822. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610281

© International Maritime Economic History Association. This paper offers an overview of Byrne's recent research into the economic, social, spatial and cultural consequences of the decline of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery after the 1976 Cod Wars.... Read More about After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry.

Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800 (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. (2015). Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800. Itinerario, 39(2), 247-275. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115315000467

The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about certain aspects of enslavement in relation to debt, and in particular that o... Read More about Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800.

Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2015). Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor. Gender and history, 27(2), 263-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12125

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bear... Read More about Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor.