All Outputs (12)

Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs (2023)
Journal Article

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

The Letter-Book of Thomas Baret of Norwich: merchant and textile manufacturer, 1672-1677 (Ed. S. Talbot) (2021)
Book

Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks (2021)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

Drummer Major James Spens: letters from a common soldier abroad, 1617-1632 (2015)
Journal Article

Commerce and the Jacobite Court: Scottish Migrants in France,1688–1718 (2014)
Book Chapter

Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713 (2014)
Book

Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.

‘Such unjustificable practices’?: Irish trade, settlement, and society in France, 1688-1715: Irish Trade, Settlement, and Society in France (2014)
Journal Article

This article explores Irish migration, settlement, and commerce in the Atlantic coast ports of France in the period between the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9 and the Jacobite uprising of 1715. Drawing on extensive archival material and using current... Read More about ‘Such unjustificable practices’?: Irish trade, settlement, and society in France, 1688-1715: Irish Trade, Settlement, and Society in France.