LONDON AND THE WHALING TRADE
This conference, the second to be organised by the Group, took place in March 2013. Although its role is now largely forgotten, London was, for a period of 250 years, a major centre for the whaling trade. London’s Arctic and South Sea Whaling trades employed hundreds of ships and many thousands of men and consumed capital resources worth millions of pounds both directly and in related supported services. The conference covered a wide range of subjects including the merchants involved in the trade, the Greenland Dock, the uses of the produce from the whale and some of the whales that were stranded in the River Thames. The proceedings of this conference are now available to purchase from the Group. They were edited by Chris Ellmers and Charles Payton.
The following papers, read on that day, are included in the proceedings:
An introduction to the London whaling industries
Janet West
Revealing London’s hidden whaling history: An appreciation of A.G.E. Jone, whaling historian
Alex Werner
‘Diverse but Sparse: London archaeological whale bones as ‘fingerprints’ of the past
Alan Pipe
‘A Place of Blubber and Oil’: The Greenland Dock and the whaling trades
Chris Ellmers
‘In Whalebone Bondage Gall the Slender Waist’: Fashionable uses of baleen
Beatrice Behlen
‘Curiously Carved’: Scrimshaw and the South Sea Whale Fishery
Stuart Frank
The worlds of the Enderby Family
Charles Payton
The Bay Wharf Whale and early thames strandings
Kevin Rielly and Guy Thompson
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