We are excited that all the articles for the special issue of Cultural and Social History are now available on Open Access for all to view.
The Special Issue has the theme: Mariners: Race, Religion and Empire and it is the culmination of the Mariners conference held at Bristol’s ss Great Britain last year.
The articles cover the same range of fascinating material which we traversed in the conference, with accounts of religious experiences and racial tensions across the working lives of both Lascar and British seafarers. There is an introduction by Sumita Mukherjee and Hilary Carey which draws together the different strands of the project around themes such as ‘home’ ‘race’ ‘religion’ and ‘place’. We are delighted with the surge of interest in the pieces which have already been placed on line – so do go and check out our work, and leave us some comments. We would love to hear from you.
The articles have not yet been put together as a Special Issue – but you can read them by following the links below. We are grateful to our funders at the Arts and Humanities Research Council whose funding has enabled us to publish all pieces for this Special Issue as Open Access. As researchers, one of the great advantages of this is that it means there is much more likelihood that our research will be read and circulated. Congratulations to Haseeb Khan who is currently leading the race for views for his terrific account of provision for Muslim sailors reflected in the architecture of Birkenhead’s Mere Hall Indian Seamen’s Home.
