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The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory (2015)
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Ombler, A. D. (2015). The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223568

In this study, which draws on a large body of archival and oral history material, I outline the economic shifts, technological development and political factors that impacted the British port system after 1945 and transformed its spaces, practices an... Read More about The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory.

British diplomatic engagement with North Africa : consular activity in Tripoli, 1795-1832 (2015)
Thesis
ElGaddari, S. M. (2015). British diplomatic engagement with North Africa : consular activity in Tripoli, 1795-1832. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224003

Firmly occupying the spatial and temporal space between the European and African worlds, the Regency of Tripoli found itself in an enviable position in 1795. With the accession of Yusuf Qaramanli, a new government busily rebuilt the country's defence... Read More about British diplomatic engagement with North Africa : consular activity in Tripoli, 1795-1832.

After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976 (2015)
Thesis
Byrne, J. (2015). After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218622

From the late nineteenth century the city of Hull became synonymous with trawling. For almost a century its distant-water fishery developed as a strongly place-centered industry, concentrated in the western port district of Hessle Road. Here, amid... Read More about After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976.