British Mercantile Trade Statistics, 1662–1809 - Editorial Board

Pete’s research concerns the history of industry, overseas trade, and transport in the United Kingdom, with a particular emphasis (so far) on the textile-manufacturing regions of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the “long eighteenth century”. His doctoral and initial post-doctoral research focused on Yorkshire and Lancashire’s textile export trade to North America from 1750–1850 and, more recently, he has worked on the industrial and urban impacts of Manchester’s canal network. His first monograph, “Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750–1850”, was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. Pete’s current work focuses on the history of UK cotton-spinning mills (1770–1840). He is also involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects that consider the history and contemporary legacies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century economic infrastructure and industrial landscapes in the north of England, including on land use and identity in the Pennine moors and on the techniques used to build Victorian railways (and their suitability to upgrade for electrification and “High Speed”).

James Davey is a historian of Britain and its maritime world, focusing on the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His research and teaching look beyond the traditional remit of maritime history to analyse the political, social, and cultural forces which created the Navy, and which were in turn shaped by its activities. His most recent book, "Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions", was published by Yale University Press in 2023 and argues that this tumultuous period saw sailors become ideologically engaged and politically active. James has also co-edited two books, "A New Naval History" (2018) and "The Maritime World of Early-Modern Britain" (2020). These explore the ways in which maritime and naval history can engage with wider historical scholarship. James is a member of the University of Exeter’s Centre for Maritime Historical Studies.