Dr Martin Wilcox's Outputs (3)

‘For the Betterment of the Industry’: The establishment and work of the White Fish Commission, 1936–1939 (2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). ‘For the Betterment of the Industry’: The establishment and work of the White Fish Commission, 1936–1939. 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, over-fishing 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, 1936–1939.

The Royal Navy and Intelligence Gathering in the Western Atlantic c. 1700-1750 (2024)
Thesis
Pooley, M. A. (2024). The Royal Navy and Intelligence Gathering in the Western Atlantic c. 1700-1750. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4919158

This thesis investigates English, and after 1707, British intelligence gathering and the role of intelligence in operations around the Atlantic Ocean during the first half of the eighteenth century and the
years immediately leading up to it. Rather... Read More about The Royal Navy and Intelligence Gathering in the Western Atlantic c. 1700-1750.

‘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.