Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new service. Help us improve it and give your feedback (opens in new tab).

Dr Séverine Angers.

Dr Séverine Angers

Role
Author

Project Cataloguer

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

  • Focus on

    Mary Parker: Wine trader and shipowner

    painting of pirate ship being captured at sea

    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.