Mariners: Religion, race and empire in British ports, 1801-1914

在帝国主义时代，宗教是海员和商人世界观的核心，但对海员工作的心态和现实以及试图改变和支持他们的基督教慈善机构的研究很少。水手的目的是通过研究机构档案，现在和过去的海洋牧师的口述历史，以及在港口和地方的任务的视觉和物质记录，创造一个新的宗教历史的使命海员。这本书将揭示英国海员和有色人种海员的隐秘历史，他们一直被传教史学家和英国海洋遗产史学家所忽视。英国的港口、海岸、运河和灯塔曾经到处都有传教士，他们的目的是拯救醉酒和好色的水手。它们发展成为至关重要的人道主义社会，继续支持世界各地的商船船员。通过与英国圣公会海员使命（成立于1856年）和船体历史中心的伙伴关系，该项目将开放主要海洋使命的档案。它将调查伦敦的任务，以lascars，亚洲海员的共同术语，包括陌生人的家（1857年），这还没有完全融入我们对英国海事过去的理解。这项工作是紧迫和重要的，不仅是因为海洋劳动力在十九世纪的规模和重要性，但因为商船面临的许多问题，从低工资，就业不安全，危险的条件，沉船的风险，海盗，疾病和遗弃，今天仍然是紧迫的。每个小组都有一个具有必要技能并能接触档案和资源的专门小组。第一个工作流程将侧重于英国海员，特别是那些谁是客户的圣公会使命的海员和水手协会。在项目合作伙伴的支持下，它将调查机构特派团如何处理地方和全球问题，包括过度扩张问题。第二个工作流将集中在lascars上，到世纪的后几十年，他们占了英国海洋劳动力的三分之一。它将评估为满足他们而创建的少数任务的有效性，以及为印度海员创建的利物浦和船体任务等创新。由于海上使命运动的庞大规模，第三个工作流将集中在三个港口城市：布里斯托、利物浦和船体。这将调查当地特派团融入港口环境的方式及其遗产在今天的意义。它将解决有关利物浦等地海洋任务的现状和未来的紧迫问题，该地区在2021年失去了代表其历史港口的世界遗产。该项目致力于确保产出多样化，可访问和学术严谨。为确保这一点，围绕三个关键里程碑建立了广泛的产出：（1）水手网站，其中将包括档案文本，地图，图像，采访，以及人和地方的目录（2）水手会议，将邀请来自英国，欧洲和南亚的学术历史学家来反思和挑战我们的研究问题（3）水手展览将在布里斯托巡回，利物浦，伦敦和船体，并将形成该项目的顶点事件。它将包括来自当地艺术家的委托，从档案馆中选择的文本，图像和文物，包括来自船体历史中心的文物，以及教育资源。水手解决了有关海洋任务的及时和具有挑战性的问题，目前缺乏学术历史和背景。它提供了一个新的分析多信仰和多种族的商船和这些劳动人民的宗教遭遇。

Religion was central to the world view of mariners and merchants in the age of imperialism but there has been little research on the mentalities and realities of working seamen and the Christian charities which sought to convert and support them. Mariners aims to create a new religious history of missions to seamen through a study of institutional archives, oral histories of present and past marine chaplains, and the visual and material record of missions in ports and places. It will illuminate the hidden histories of British seamen and seamen of colour, who have been neglected by both historians of missions and historians of Britain's maritime inheritance.Marine missions were once ubiquitous features of British ports, coasts, canals and lighthouses where their object was to save the drunken and lascivious sailor from themselves. They evolved into vitally important humanitarian societies which continue to support merchant crews around the world. Through partnership with the Anglican Mission to Seafarers (founded 1856) and the Hull History Centre, the project will open up the archives of major marine missions. It will investigate the London-based missions to lascars, the common term for Asian seafarers, including the Strangers' Home (1857), which have not yet been fully integrated into our understanding of the British maritime past. The work is urgent and important, not just because of the scale and importance of the marine workforce in the nineteenth century, but because many of the problems faced by the merchant marine, from low wages, to insecure employment, hazardous conditions, risk of shipwreck, piracy, disease and abandonment, remain just as urgent today.Research has been divided into three thematic workstreams, each with a dedicated team with the necessary skills and access to archives and resources. The first workstream will focus on British mariners, especially those who were clients of the Anglican Mission to Seafarers and Sailors' Society. With the support of project partners, it will interrogate the ways institutional missions grappled with local and global issues, including that of over rapid expansion. The second workstream will focus on lascars, who by the later decades of the nineteenth century made up to a third of the British marine workforce. It will assess the effectiveness of the few missions created to cater for them, and innovations such as the Liverpool and Hull missions for Indian seamen. Because of the sheer scale of the marine mission movement, the third workstream will focus on three port cities: Bristol, Liverpool and Hull. This will investigate ways in which local missions were integrated into port environments and the significance of their legacy today. It will address pressing issues about the status and future of marine missions in sites such as Liverpool, which in 2021 lost world heritage standing for its historic port. The project is committed to ensuring outputs are diverse, accessible and academically rigorous. To ensure this, there are a wide range of outputs built around three key milestones: (1) the Mariners' website, which will include archival text, maps, images, interviews, and directories of people and places (2) the Mariners' conference, which will engage academic historians from the UK, Europe and South Asia to reflect and challenge our research questions (3) the Mariners' exhibition will tour Bristol, Liverpool, London and Hull and will form the capstone event for the project. It will include commissions from local artists, text, images, and artefacts chosen from the archives, including those from the Hull History Centre, as well as education resources. Mariners addresses timely and challenging questions about marine missions which currently lack scholarly histories and context. It provides a fresh analysis of the multi-faith and multi-racial merchant marine and the religious encounters of these working people.