TIDE is pleased to invite you to its first seminar of 2019 at the University of Liverpool's campus in London on the theme of ‘Migrants and Pirates'. Join us to hear William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge) speak on ‘soul-selling’ traffickers who recruited and escorted migrants, and Oliver Finnegan (Prize Papers Project, Carl von Ossietzky University) on the many different understandings of piracy that existed in England across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

TIDE | Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550-1700 - Seminar

The University of Liverpool in London

33, Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AG

25 March 2019, 16:30

Migrants and Pirates

William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge)

‘“Selling Souls”: Migrant Recruiters, Traffickers and the Trade in Strangers in Europe and America in the 17th and 18th centuries’

Oliver Finnegan (Prize Papers Project, Carl von Ossietzky University)

'Conceptions of Piracy in Early Modern England’