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‘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.

‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’ (2020)
Journal Article
Reeve, M. (2021). ‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’. Northern History, 58(1), 129-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2020.1856566

This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on t... Read More about ‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’.

‘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.

“The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19 (2017)
Journal Article
Reeve, M. (2017). “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 12(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2017.1353770

This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues... Read More about “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19.

'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.

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.

Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894 (2002)
Journal Article
Woods, F. E., & Evans, N. (2002). Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894. BYU Studies, 41(4), 75-102

Nearly one hundred thousand Latter-day Saints made the journey across the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. Both contemporary commentators and Mormon historians alike have described these ocean crossings extensively. Yet the journey from Liverp... Read More about Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894.