I am an AHRC funded PhD student at Lancaster University researching the smuggling networks of the Isle of Man and Channel Islands during the long Eighteenth-Century. My study concentrates on the relationships between smuggling, the consumer revolution, and the development of the fiscal-naval state.

 

My research intends to integrate our understanding of the Channel and Irish Sea as spaces of maritime history in the early-modern period, and answer questions about the evolution of the Eighteenth-Century illicit economy. It uses digital methods such as GIS and network analysis to recreate the smuggling hinterlands of the insular entrepôts, and in the process inform our understanding of the Irish Sea and the Channel as spaces of maritime history.

 

My research into smuggling fits within a broader fascination with maritime history, seafaring, folklore, and popular resistance. I would welcome questions and submissions around these research interests, and more generally early-modern political and economic history.