Margarette Lincoln was director of research and collections and, from 2001, deputy director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. She is now a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in London.
“This book inexorably ties the lives of citizens to the life of the
port, and you will never see London in the same light. It is
enlightening, well-written, gripping and down-to-earth. This is a
must-read for anyone whose ancestors lived in not just London but
any busy port during the 18th century, by an author who really
knows her stuff.”—Janet Dempsey, Who Do You Think You Are
“This is a vivid evocation of the riverside life of
eighteenth-century London, with sailors and landmen, rich and poor,
bankers, merchants, stevedores, wharfingers and boatmen living and
working cheek by jowl in the middle of the biggest and busiest port
in the world. Many have glanced at this lost world from a distance,
but few can equal Margarette Lincoln’s intimate knowledge of
it.”—N. A. M. Rodger, author of The Command of the Ocean
“[A] marvellous account . . . enlightening”—Steven Simon,
Survival
“Those of us who love south-east London will enjoy Margarette
Lincoln’s Trading in War: London’s Maritime World in the Age of
Cook and Nelson, which uncovers the lost world of the London docks
in the period when Britain first became a world empire based on
maritime trade.”—Jonathan Sumption, Spectator, “Books of the
Year”
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“A rich and vibrant study of the riverside boroughs of London to
the east of Tower Bridge, the world’s greatest maritime city, in an
age of revolution and social change. Lincoln catches a transient
world of moving people, changing work, and the integrated lives of
sea captains and servants, shipwrights, stowaways and
thieves.”—Andrew Lambert, author of Nelson and War at Sea in the
Age of Sail
“Written at a fine, taut pace, this account of the industrial and
trading powerhouse of maritime London at the end of the eighteenth
century demonstrates that living then was at times far from
comfortable, even for those who prospered. This is a new and
comprehensive social analysis, with wonderful stories taken from
unusual sources. Here, too, is the underside of society, riot and
murder, poverty and theft, alongside the economic vibrancy along
the banks of the Thames, capitalists and workers taking advantage
of the business stoked up by lengthy wars.”—Roger Knight, author of
Britain Against Napoleon
“A fascinating glimpse of a part of London that is so often
overlooked. Margarette Lincoln takes us into the minutiae of the
lives of ‘ordinary’ citizens, and shows how they are in fact far
from ordinary: shipbuilders, sailors and explorers and many others
who made Britain the leading maritime nation of the period. And
even more remarkable, we get to know the women of this watery
world, often the unsung heroines in turbulent times.”—Margaret
Willes, author of The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John
Evelyn
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