Articles
Lives shaped by the sea: how has the sea determined, influenced or changed peoples and communities on land?
History in Focus invited ten academics to answer this question from their own research perspective. The resulting pieces, listed below, demonstrate the breadth and depth of historical research relating, in one way or another, to the sea. Different perspectives, different foci and different methodologies have guided the authors of these articles, and we hope they will be of interest to historians and students of immigration and migration, docks and ports, labour, trade and industry, women's history, oral history and local history.
Articles index
Front door, back door: seascapes and the Australian psyche
by Ruth Balint
Representations of mariners and maritime communities, c
.1750–1850
by Andrew Gritt
Is there a place for women in maritime history?
by Hanna Hagmark-Cooper
Waiting and hoping: the experience of women whose loved ones went to sea
by Margarette Lincoln
Maritime history and the emigration trade: the case of mid-nineteenth-century Cornwall
by Philip Payton
Coastal communities and maritime history
by Michael Pearson
'A Karachi stowage': dockers and the sea in twentieth-century Britain
by Jim Phillips
London and the sea
by Leonard Schwarz
Catching stories: oral histories from the Brighton fishing community
by Lorraine Sitzia
The seaside resort: a British cultural export
by John K. Walton