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Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty's expertise is in trading communities and the way in which they worked together in challenging times, and the economy of the first British empire - both formal and informal. Complementing this is an interest in networks of people, credit and goods and the lives of men and women who facilitated this trade. Sheryllynne works in an interdisciplinary manner, both adopting socio-economic theory in her own work and by working with computer scientists, geographers and economists. Sheryllynne is also an advocate for Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Visual Analytics (VA).

Sheryllynne was formerly the Director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS) at the University of Nottingham. She was also on the group studying the University of Nottingham’s links with historical slavery. Sheryllynne serves on the Editorial Boards of Essays in Economic and Business History and the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. She is a Trustee of the British Commission for Maritime History and Council member of the  Centre for Port and Maritime History (Liverpool); Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. She was also an ESRC panel member 2016-2019.

Keynote papers have focused on interdisciplinarity and social network analysis. For example at the British Commission for Maritime History 'New Researchers' Conference', Liverpool March 2019; 'Negotiating Networks: New Research on Networks in Social and Economic History', IHR, 2018 and for 'Port City Lives: Mobilities, Networks, Encounters', Liverpool, Sep 2012.

Sheryllynne is presently working on a Leverhulme Funded project entitled Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756. This project uses a rare collection of letters in the High Court of Chancery records at The National Archives, UK. It will use these letters to tell the stories of ‘ordinary people’ in Jamaica's eighteenth-century history; male and female, white and of colour, free and enslaved. It focuses in the year 1756 - the start of the Seven Years' War and the height of the power and influence of the Jamaican elite - but also just before Tackey's Revolt in 1760 - which shook the planter elite to their core and changed Jamaica for ever. The book from this project is under contract with McGill Queens University Press under the title Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756, due for publication in 2023.

Sheryllynne is also editing a collection with Sarah Goldsmith and Karen Harvey (eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming c. 2023).

She was the Principal Investigator on the Scott Trust-Funded project exploring any links with historical slavery of John Edward Taylor (founder the Manchester Guardian in 1821), his associates, their investments and business activities.

During 2019-2020 Sheryllynne was also a member of the Working Group for the University of Nottingham's project, Universities of Nottingham and Historical Slavery.

Grants and Awards

2020, Scott Trust Commission on John Edward Taylor, Founder of the Manchester Guardian.

2020, CI, ESRC IAA for Nottingham City Council’s project on links between Nottingham plaques and statues and links to historical slavery.

2019-21, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, for project ‘Merchants and Managers: Sojourners and Slaves’.

2018, Francesca Carnevali Small Research Grant, Economic History Society, for project ‘Merchants and Managers: Sojourners and Slaves’.

2018, Small Research Grant, 2018, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, for project ‘Merchants and Managers: Sojourners and Slaves’

2014; Alexander O. Vietor Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, USA, ‘Sugar, Slaves and Sustenance’, 2014.

2013, Economic History Society, Conferences and Initiatives Fund, for PGR/ECR workshop, ‘Perspectives on Sources for Economic and Business History’,

2012-15, University of Nottingham Dean’s Fund for Centre for Economic and Business History.

2011 (with Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier (American and Canadian Studies) and Dr Susanne Seymour (Geography)) internal funding from Centre for Advanced Studies for a series of workshops entitled ‘Sites and Sights of Slavery, 1750-1834’.

2009, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, research expenses.

2008, with Dr Susanne Seymour, Geography, University of Nottingham, English Heritage funded project, ‘Country Houses and Slavery’.

2007, Humanities and Social Sciences Strategy Group, University of Nottingham Development Fund for Symposium on the early-modern British Atlantic.

2007, Economic History Society Conference and Initiative Fund for Symposium on the early-modern British Atlantic.

2006, North American Caird Fellow, National Maritime Museum (UK)/John Carter Brown Library (USA), ‘British Business Culture and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic’.

2005, Economic History Society Conference fund for ‘Sisters and Doing it for Themselves: Women and Informal Port Economies’.

2005, British Academy travel grant to attend the reunion of the Harvard International Seminar of the History of the Atlantic World 1500-1800 in August 2005.

2004-5, ESRC early career grant for ‘Business Culture and Community: Liverpool in the 18th Century British Atlantic’.

Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty's expertise is in the area of eighteenth-century traders and the economy of the first British empire - both formal and informal. Complementing this is an interest in networks of people, credit and goods and the lives of men and women who facilitated this trade. Sheryllynne's work focuses on the economy of the British-Atlantic, on women and work, and port cities which concentrate on the period roughly circa 1750-1810.

Books

   Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming, c.2023).

   - and Sarah Goldsmith and Karen Harvey (eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming c. 2023).

'Merely for Money'? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815 Sheryllynne Haggerty Liverpool University Press, 2012

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The British Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: men, women and the distribution of goods Sheryllynne Haggerty Brill Press, 2007

   ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic 1750-1815 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Apl 2012). Nominated for the Wadsworth Prize (Business Archives Council 2013).
   The British-Atlantic Trading Community 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods (Leiden: Brill Press, 2006).
    - and Anthony Webster and Nicholas White (eds.), The Empire in One City? Liverpool’s Inconvenient Imperial Past (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).

Journals

    - and Trevor Burnard, 'Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica', Enterprise & Society, forthcoming.

    'Liverpool in the Atlantic World 1500-1833' in Trevor Burnard (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    ‘What’s in a Price? The American Raw Cotton Market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American War’, Business History, 61:6 (2019), 942-70.
    - and Susanne Seymour, ‘Imperial Careering and Enslavement in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Bentinck Family, 1710-1830s’, Slavery & Abolition, 39:4 (2018), 642-62.
   - and John Haggerty, ‘Avoiding Musty Mutton Chops: The Network Narrative of An American Merchant in London’, Essays in Economic and Business History, XXXVII (2019), 1-42.
   ‘Risk, Networks and Privateering in Liverpool During the Seven Years’ War’, Journal of Maritime History, 30:1 (2018), 30-51.
   - and J. Haggerty, ‘Networking with a Network: The Liverpool African Committee 1750-1810’, Enterprise & Society, 18:3 (2017), 566-90.
   - and J. Haggerty, M.C. Casson & M. J. Taylor, ‘A Framework for the Forensic Analysis of User Interaction with Social Media’, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 4:4 (2012), 15-30.
   ‘”You promise well and perform as badly”: The failure of the ‘implicit contract of family’ in the Scottish Atlantic’, International Journal of Maritime History, 23:2 (2011), 267-82.
  - and John Haggerty, ‘The Life Cycle of a Metropolitan Business Network: Liverpool 1750-1810’, Explorations in Economic History, 48 (2011), 189-206.
   'I “could do for the Dickmans”: When Networks Don’t Work’, in Andreas Gestrich and Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl (eds.), Cosmopolitan Networks in Commerce and Society, 1660-1914 (London: Supplement no. 2 of German Historical Institute London Bulletin, 2011), pp.317-42.
   - and John Haggerty, ‘Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network’, Enterprise & Society, 11:1 (2010), 1-25.
  ‘”Miss Fan can tun her han!” Female Traders in Eighteenth-Century British-American Atlantic Port Cities’, Atlantic Studies, 6:1 (2009), 29-42.
   'Risk and Risk Management in the Liverpool Slave Trade', Business History, 51:6 (Nov 2009), 817-834.
  ‘The Structure of the Philadelphia Trading Community on the Transition from Colony to State”, Business History, 48:2 (2006), 171-92.
   ‘Philadelphia,  in John J. McCusker (ed.), History of World Trade Since 1450 (Basingstoke: MacMillan Reference, 2005).
   ‘A Link on the Chain: Trade and the Trans-Shipment of Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth Century’, International Journal of Maritime History, 14:1 (2002), 157-72.
  ‘The Structure of the Trading Community in Liverpool, 1760-1810’, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 151, 97-125.

Book Chapters

   ‘I “never had the happeness of Receivin one Letter from You” ‘Unlettered’ letters from Jamaica, 1756’,  in Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty and Karen Harvey (eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming c. 2023).
   Invited to contribute, ‘Actors of Maritime Trade in the British Atlantic: From the 'Sea Dogs' to a Trading Empire’ in Christian Bouchet and Gérard Le Bouëdec (eds.), The Sea in History: The Early Modern Period (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017), pp.350-59.
   Invited to contribute, ‘Structural Holes and Bad Ideas: Liverpool’s Atlantic Trade Networks in the Early-Eighteenth Century, in Manuel Herrero Sanchez and Klemens Kaps (eds.), Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800: Connectors of Commercial Maritime Systems (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), pp.237-254.
   - and Susanne Seymour, ‘Assess the Position of the Derwent Valley Cotton Industry in Terms of the Empire, the Slave Trade and the Pressures of Global Demand and Supply’, in David Knight (ed.), The Derwent Valley: The Valley that Changed the World (Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Research Framework: Derwent Valley Mills Partnership (2016), p.87.
   - and John Haggerty, Invited to contribute, ‘Visual Analytics for Large Datasets: The Liverpool Slave Trade Community 1750-1810’, in M. C. Casson and Nigar Hashimzade (eds.), Large Datasets in Economic History: Research Methods and Case Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013).
   - and Susanne Seymour, ‘Property, Power and Authority: the Slavery Connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall’, in M. Dresser, A. Hann and M. Kaufmann (eds.), Slavery and the British Country House (London: English Heritage, 2013).
   ‘Ports, Petticoats and Power?” Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia’, in Jodi Campbell and Doug Catterall (eds.), Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 (Leiden: Brill Press, 2012).
   ‘Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c. 1750-75”’ in Sheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster and Nicholas White (eds.), The Empire in One City? Liverpool’s Inconvenient Imperial Past (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008), pp.17-34.
   ‘Women, Work, and the Consumer Revolution: Liverpool in the late Eighteenth Century”’, in John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds.), A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003), pp.106-26.

Published Conference Proceedings

  - and J. Haggerty, ‘Temporal Social Network Analysis for Historians: A Case Study’, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2011), Algarve, Portugal, 5 - 7 March, 2011, pp. 207 - 217.

  

Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty is an HEA Fellow. The modules I have taught reflect her broad interest in Atlantic History and especially the British-Atlantic economy. She has designed and convened the following modules:

• (Mis)Perceptions of the Other (MA)
• Atlantic Controversies: People, Power and Profits (MA)
• The British Slave Trade and Abolition (special subject)
• The Rise (and Demise?) of Capitalism (third year option)
• Early Entrepreneurs (third year option)
• From East India Company to West India Failure: The First British Empire (second year survey)
• From Reformation to Revolution (first year survey)

She has also taught on the following:

• Research Methods (MA)
• Learning History (first year core)