Using Gale Historical Newspapers to Explore the Representation of Coastal Wreckers

|By Ellen Boucher, Gale Ambassador at the University of Bristol| One of my History modules this year, Outlaws, focused on the robbers, bandits and smugglers on the outskirts of society. For my final presentation for the module, I chose to study maritime wreckers using Gale’s Historical Newspapers, to explore how Daphne du Maurier’s novel Jamaica … Continue reading Using Gale Historical Newspapers to Explore the Representation of Coastal Wreckers