Dr Séverine Angers
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About
Séverine is an eighteenth-century historian, with expertise on warfare, letter-writing, and emotions.
She works on the Prize Papers Project, a collaboration between The National Archives and the University of Oldenburg which is sorting and digitising the papers taken from ships captured between 1652 and 1815.
She looks primarily at the American Revolutionary War period, specialising on letters and French material.
Articles
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Focus on
Mary Parker: Wine trader and shipowner
Letters from Mary Parker, a trader based in London whose business spread across the Atlantic, reveal her fascinating story as a woman merchant during wartime.