Prosecuting Piracy in Peacetime: Crime, Empire, and the High Court of Admiralty, 1607-1618

与国家档案馆合作的历史学博士研究生这个项目将通过研究高等海事法院的刑事分支，探索早期现代海事世界中法律、犯罪和帝国之间的关系。该项目将专注于17世纪初，当时英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰首次统一在詹姆斯六世和我的一个君主之下，而英国的商业和殖民活动扩大，与世界各地更广泛的社区和文化建立了交流和冲突。虽然詹姆斯也与其他帝国强国达成了和平协议，但他的政府努力控制其航海臣民，其中许多人并没有放弃他们以前在海洋中养成的掠夺习惯。金钟高等法院提供了一个独特的机会来审视这一英国帝国和海事史上的重要时刻。该项目将结合自上而下的历史，既审查法院实施的国家政策，也审查出现在法院面前的各种人的经历。法庭上的证人和诉讼当事人包括海盗、商人和水手、他们的家人、其他海上贸易成员以及来自英国以外的人--例如被指控犯有海盗罪的来自伊斯兰北非的海员。因此，该项目将结合制度、政治和社会历史来调查这个宫廷，将其作为帝国的工具和帝国对抗的场所(无论是英国与其臣民之间的冲突，还是涉及其他社区的对抗)。在该项目规定的目标范围内，将鼓励学生根据自己的兴趣制定研究议程和问题，并(在主管的指导下)设计和实施研究计划。学生还将接受广泛的档案实践和历史奖学金方面的培训，以及学习数字人文学科的新技术。

PhD Studentship in History in Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with The National ArchivesBy studying the criminal branch of the High Court of Admiralty, this project will explore the relationship between law, crime, and empire in the early modern maritime world. The project will focus on the early seventeenth century, when England, Scotland, and Ireland were first united under one monarch in James VI and I, while British commercial and colonial activities expanded, establishing both exchange and conflict with a greater range of communities and cultures around the world. While James also made peace with other imperial powers, his government struggled to control its seafaring subjects, many of whom did not abandon the plundering habits they had previously adopted in wartime.The High Court of Admiralty offers a unique opportunity to examine this important moment in British imperial and maritime history. The project will combine history from above and from below, examining both the state policy implemented by the court and the experiences of the diverse range of people who appeared before it. Witnesses and litigants in the court included pirates, merchants, and sailors, their families, members of other maritime trades, and people from beyond Britain - such as seafarers from Islamic North Africa who were accused of piracy. The project will therefore integrate institutional, political, and social history to investigate this court as both an instrument of empire and a site for imperial confrontations (whether between Britain and its own subjects or involving other communities).Within the scope of the project's stated objectives, the student will be encouraged to develop the research agenda and questions to follow their own interests, and (under the guidance of the supervisors) will design and implement the research programme. The student will also receive extensive training in both archival practice and historical scholarship, as well as being introduced to newly developed techniques from digital humanities.