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Book Review: The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities by Charles C. Ludington LudingtonCharles C., ed., The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. x + 262 pp., illustrations, maps, index. ISBN 978-1-0322-2807-5, £130 (hbk). (2025)
Journal Article
Talbott, S. (2025). Book Review: The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities by Charles C. Ludington LudingtonCharles C., ed., The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. x + 262 pp., illustrations, maps, index. ISBN 978-1-0322-2807-5, £130 (hbk). International Journal of Maritime History, https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714251331869

A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business? (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?. In Knowledge, Information and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620 - 1760 (24-49). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0002

The ‘print revolution’ underpinned the emergence and growth of a variety of conduits of business information, including printed prices current, commercial newspapers, exchange rates current, and advice books, as there was an expansion in the producti... Read More about A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?.

Misinformation (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Misinformation. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (203-234). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0007

While honesty was a desirable quality in business, sometimes information was shared which was—or later became—false. Occasionally this resulted from a deliberate intent to deceive, but false information more commonly arose from genuine misunderstandi... Read More about Misinformation.

Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (121-156). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0005

Commercial agents operated in peculiarly complex legal landscapes in the early modern British Atlantic world. As commercial worlds expanded, this complexity increased. This chapter explores how merchants educated themselves about legal processes and... Read More about Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes.

Commercial Education (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Commercial Education. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (79-120). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0004

Commerce in the early modern period was a highly skilled profession. We know much about the increase in formal commercial education, the role of apprenticeships, and the publication of printed didactic texts such as advice books, but we know less abo... Read More about Commercial Education.

Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (50-78). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0003

Verbal exchange of information was commonplace, but many of these oral exchanges were immediately lost from record as they were not committed to paper. Drawing on merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, this chapter pieces together the role of or... Read More about Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information.

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott) (2024)
Book
Jones, S., & Talbott, S. (2024). Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott). Brill Academic Publishers

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, ‘business news’, within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scho... Read More about Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott).

Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs (2023)
Journal Article
Talbott, S. (2023). Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/351d-x428

Since the academic year 2021-22, a project has been underway to innovate assessment in History
Individual Study Project modules at Keele. This includes a second-year dissertation preparation
module, and the final-year dissertation. In the context... Read More about Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs.

War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9. (2023)
Journal Article
Talbott, S. (2023). War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9. Business History Review, 97(2), 430-432. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680523000557

Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, S. H., & Talbott, S. (2022). Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1092-1121. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.15

Despite significant developments in understanding the role of women in early-modern business, more is needed to fully understand women’s impact on eighteenth-century trading networks. Further, much less is known about the role of wider family members... Read More about Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks.

‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott. (2021). ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history. Literature and History, 30(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973211007353

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618-1648. Depiction... Read More about ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history.

‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674 (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott, S., & Jones, S. H. (2021). ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.1

By nature, wars appear hostile to commerce, bringing disruption to international relations and to everyday life. By focusing on the individuals involved in continuing commerce, however, an increasing body of scholarship has shown that merchants in a... Read More about ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674.

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England (2019)
Journal Article
Brown, K., Kennedy, A., & Talbott, S. (2019). ‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Scottish Historical Review, 98(2), 241-265. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2019.0402

While very prominent in the contemporary world, anxiety about the potentially negative impact that immigrants might have on their host communities has deep historical roots. In a British context, such fears were particularly heightened following the... Read More about ‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England.

Trade and Commerce (2019)
Book Chapter
Talbot, S. (2019). Trade and Commerce. . Liverpool University Press