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Letters of Seamen in the Wars with France, 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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Letters of Seamen in the Wars with France, 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer which tell
us a great deal about shipboard life and about seamen's attitudes.
Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer are rare,
both in original form and in print. This edited collection of 255
letters, written by seamen in the British Navy and their
correspondents between 1793 and 1815, gives voice to a group of men
whose lives and thoughts are otherwise mostly unknown. The letters
are extremely valuable for the insights which they give into
aspects of life below decks and the subjects close to the writers'
hearts:money matters, ties with home and homesickness. They also
provide eye-witness accounts of events during a tumultuous and
important period of British and European history. One group of
letters, included as a separate section, comprises the letters of
seamen and their family and friends which were intercepted by the
authorities during the mutinies of 1797. These letters shed a great
deal of light on the extraordinary events of that year and of
seamen's attitudes to the mutinies. The editors' introductory
material, besides highlighting what the letters tell us about
seamen's lives and attitudes, also discusses the extent of literacy
amongst seamen, setting this into its wider contemporary popular
context. The letters are supported by a substantial editorial
apparatus and two detailed appendices containing biographies of
seamen and information on select ships which took part in the
mutinies of 1797. Helen Watt, a professional archivist and
researcher, is currently Project Archivist with the Borthwick
Institute for Archives, University of York, and has also worked on
other research projects at The National Archives, Kew, theNational
Library of Wales and the University of Wales Centre for Advanced
Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth. Anne Hawkins, a retired
civil servant, was Secretary of the Ships' Names and Badges
Committee in the early 1990s and has family links with the Navy and
Admiralty.
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