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Steve Garnett
My name is Steve Garnett and I am a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University. My topic is officially titled 'England and Algiers, 1603-1714' and the core of my research is being undertaken in the deposit labelled 'State Papers 71 which is held at the National Archives in London. This archive documents England's, later Britain's, relationship with the Barbary States between 1577 and 1780, which contemporaries understood to be the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli plus the independent and by the late 1600s, unified empire of Morocco...
The State Papers 71 provide a brilliant insight into the early modern Mediterranean and England's place in it. I hope the blog will do this remarkable archive justice.
12 January 2017
I thought I would write something, off the cuff, so to speak. No plan, just allow words to come out and be placed on the page. I have no one to please, no one looking over my shoulder....
An “illegal” war: the causes of the Anglo-Algiers War, 1677-168
3 November 2016
Below is the twenty minute paper I gave at the British Commission for Maritime History in April this year. Since giving this paper I have read Sir John Narbrough’s journal...
31 October 2016
A few weeks back I was asked to present for ten minutes on my PhD topic and my research practice. The latter has been a source of frustration to me, in particular getting to grips with a...
11 July 2016
Welcome to my blog – State Papers 71. My name is Steve Garnett and I am a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University. My topic is officially titled ‘England and...