Chronometry and Chronometers on British Voyages of Exploration, c.1815-c.1872

博士学位的重点将是研究19世纪英国探险航行中如何在日常航行和更专业的探险活动中使用计时器。其目的是涵盖海军舰艇计时器成为标准的时期(到1830年左右)，但从19世纪70年代初开始更多以科学为基础的海洋探索出现之前，并探索在这一重大探索活动时期船上实践是如何变化和发展的。该项目将使用档案证据，国家海事博物馆世界领先的收藏品，以及其他领先储存库的原始材料。成功的学生应该在格林威治和相关的知识库中度过第一年和第二年的更长时间。学生将融入并得到NMM研究社区的支持，并成为全英国CDP计划的一部分，该计划提供建立网络、传播和高级研究培训的机会。

The focus of the PhD will be to examine the ways in which nineteenth-century British voyages of exploration used chronometers in their routine navigation and more specialised expeditionary activities. The aim is to cover the period that saw chronometers becoming standard on naval vessels (by about 1830), but before the advent of more science-based oceanic exploration from the early 1870s, and to explore how on-board practices changed and developed in this period of significant exploratory activity. The project will use archival evidence, the world-leading collections of the National Maritime Museum, and primary material in other leading repositories. The successful student should expect to spend periods of Year 1 and extended amounts of Year 2 in Greenwich and in associated repositories. The student will be integrated into and supported by the research community at the NMM and be part of the UK-wide CDP scheme which provides opportunities for networking, dissemination, and advanced research training.