Dr Martin Wilcox

Dr Martin Wilcox joined the Greenwich Maritime Institute (GMI) in May 2006, after completing an MA in Maritime History and subsequently a PhD at the University of Hull, where he also taught and worked as a Research Assistant. From 2006 to 2009 he was employed  as a postdoctoral fellow on the Leverhulme-funded project Sustaining the Empire: War, the Navy and the Contractor State. In 2010 he was apppointed Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Maritime History.  

Dr Wilcox teaches two modules on the MA in Maritime History, and contributes seminars to other courses on GMI postgraduate degree programmes.

Research/scholarly interests

Dr Wilcox is a specialist in modern British and international maritime history. His research interests fall into three main categories:

• The social and economic history of merchant shipping, with a particular interest in maritime labour.
• The interaction of maritime activity and the landward economy
• The history of fisheries.

Selected publications

Books

(with Roger Knight) Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State (Boydell and Brewer, 2010)

Fishing and Fishermen: A Guide for Family Historians. (Pen & Sword,2009)

Journal articles and book chapters

'The "Poor Decayed Seamen" of Greenwich Hospital, 1705-1763, forthcoming.

'Railways, Road Haulage and the British White Fish Industry, 1920–1970' in Business History, forthcoming 2012.

'Beyond the North Atlantic' in David J. Starkey and Ingo Heidbrink (eds.) A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries, volume 2: The Modern Era (German Maritime Museum, 2012)

'The “Mystery and Business” of Navy Agents in the Eighteenth Century in International Journal of Maritime History (2011)

'"This Great Complex Concern": Victualing the Royal Navy on the East Indies Station, 1783–1815. Mariner’s Mirror 97 (2011).

'Maritime Business in 18th Century Cornwall: Zephaniah Job of Polperro' in Maritime Views (August 2010).

'The Role of Apprenticed Labour in the British Fisheries, 1850–1939' in Lars U. Scholl and David M. Williams (eds.) Crisis and Transition: Maritime Sectors in the North Sea Region 1790–1940 (German Maritime Museum, 2008)

'Concentration or Disintegration? Vessel Ownership, Fish Wholesaling and Processing in the British Trawl Fishery, 1850–1939' in James E. Candow and David J. Starkey (eds.) The North Atlantic Fisheries: Supply, Marketing and Consumption, 1560–1990 (North Atlantic Fisheries Association, 2006).

'Opportunity or exploitation? Apprenticeship in the British trawl fisheries, 1850–1936' Genealogists’ Magazine (December 2004)

'From Brixham to Hull; the diffusion of apprenticeship in the trawl fisheries, c1840–1914' Maritime South West, 17 (2004)