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Dr

Heather Dalton

Honorary
Historical and Philosophical Studies
16th century Atlantic History
Maritime Trading Networks 1450-1700
Relationships Across National, Religious & Racial Boundaries
Evidence of Trade & Empire in Art 1200-1700
Yellow-crested & Sulphur-crested Cockatoos
Early Contact between Indo-Australian Archipelago & Europe
15th & 16th century English Slave Traders
Merchants' Ledgers & Account Books
Material Culture & Collecting
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Projects

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Creating the Atlantic World: transnational relationships and family ties in trading networks and voyages of discovery, 1480-1580.

This project will investigate the part played by transnational family-based trade networks in laying the foundations of the Atlantic World. ..

2014 - 2017
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Scholarly Works

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Santiago Matamoros/Mataindios: Adopting an Old World Battlefield Apparition as a New World Representation of Triumph

Heather Dalton

Book Chapter  |  2021

All essays in this volume focus on the performance and negotiation of identity in situations of cultural contact, with particular ..

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Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850

Book  |  2020

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile, 1550-1850 brings together eleven original essays by..

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Introduction: Keeping Family

Heather Dalton

Book Chapter  |  2020

Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed t..

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Relationships Lost and Found in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic An Englishman's 'Suffering Rewarded'

Heather Dalton

Book Chapter  |  2020

At 21, Robert Tomson had become an integral part of an English merchant’s household in Seville and in 1555 he joined their em..

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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen's Australasian Cockatoo: Symbol of Detente between East and West and Evidence of the Ayyubids' Global Reach

Heather Dalton, Jukka Salo, Pekka Niemela, Simo Orma

Journal article  |  2018  |  PARERGON

Frederick II of Sicily made contact with the Kurdish al-Malik Muhammad al-Kamil in 1217-A year before al-Malik became sultan of Eg..

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Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500-1560

Heather Dalton

Book  |  2016

In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port of Agadir in Morocco, watching..

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Barlow, Roger (c.1483 -1553) merchant and explorer

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Reference Work  |  2015

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“Making feast of the prisoner”: Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and ideas of New World cannibalism

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Book Chapter  |  2015

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A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in fifteenth-century Mantua: rethinking symbols of sanctity and patterns of trade

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Journal article  |  2014  |  Renaissance Studies

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Into Speyne to selle for Slavys: English, Spanish, and Genoese Merchant Networks and their Involvement with the 'Cost of Gwynea' Trade before 1550

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Book Chapter  |  2012

In 1541, Roger Barlow, an English merchant who had traded with Spain's Atlantic settlements from Seville in the 1520s, presented H..

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Literary Studies
Archaeology
Art History, Theory and Criticism

News

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How did a cockatoo reach 13th century Sicily?

Heather Dalton

Among the hand-written documents, books, and ancient artefacts in the Vatican Library is a 13th century manuscript on falconry written in L..

June 12, 2018
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2017

ANZAMEMS' inaugural Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize
2013

Project: Creating the Atlantic World: transnational relationships and family ties in trading networks and voyages of discovery, 1480–1580

Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), May 2014-May 2017.
2013

Keble Advanced Studies Centre, Kevle College, Oxford. 2 month residence as research visitor collaborating with Dr Ian Archer (Michaelmas Term).
2011

Associate Investigator grant to fund 2012 project

Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions
2011

For 2011, 2012, 2013 research in UK and Spain

Bauta Funding (Canada) to The Cabot Project
2010

For archival research in Seville 2010

Harvard University International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World
2010

To work at University of Bristol on Cabot Project 2010

Australian Academy of the Humanities International Research Fellowship
2008

Grant for research collaboration in UK on maritime merchants

Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research
2005

Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Traveling Scholarship

University of Melbourne
2004

Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship

University of Melbourne
2003

Australian Postgraduate Award four-year scholarship

Australian Government
2016

FRHIST - Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK)

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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Education

Roger Barlow: Tudor Trade and the Atlantic World

University of Melbourne

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University of Bristol

United Kingdom