Portraits, Pearls and Things “wch are very straunge to owres”: The lost collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520–1550

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. ..