Dr Graham Moore
- Role
- Researcher
Records Specialist – Early Modern Parliament
About
Graham Moore is an early modern historian, focusing on maritime and social histories, particularly in the colonial Atlantic world.
Research activity
Graham completed his PhD here at The National Archives, as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project with the University of Reading. Graham’s doctoral thesis focused on piracy in the early 17th-century north Atlantic, using depositions from the High Court of Admiralty’s criminal records series.
Graham’s current research focus is 18th-century North America, as part of The National Archives’ programme of public events commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence in 2026.
He previously taught at the University of Reading, and has worked with organisations like Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Royal Berkshire Archives on research and public engagement projects.
Publications
'Finding George Freeman: a "Liberated African" in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition', Slavery & Abolition 46, No. 1 (2024), 207-229.
'Newfoundland Cod and English Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century', Mariner's Mirror 110, No. 2 (2024), 210-222.
'The Liues, Apprehensions, Arraignments, and Executions of the 19 Late Pyrates: Jacobean Piracy in Law and Literature', Humanities 11, No. 4 (2022), 82.
Contact
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