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Duncan Taylor

My main research concentrates on the maritime history and maritime trade of the Bristol Channel ports in the Sixteenth century.

PhD: The Maritime Trade of the Smaller Bristol Channel Ports in the Sixteenth Century

Somerset's Sixteenth Century Maritime Trade

Chapter from the Maritime History of Somerset Vol 1 Trade and Commerce (Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2010).

'A Toune Exceeding Ful of Irisch Menne':  The Importance of Irish Trade to Sixteenth Century Minehead and Somerset.

Paper given to the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Dublin, November 2007, and subsequently at The Celtic Sea World, 1400-1700 conference, University of Bristol, September 2008.  

Known Unknowns:  Uncovering Hidden Maritime Trade  in Sixteenth Century Bridgwater.

Paper given to the New Researchers in Maritime History Conference, National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, March 2007, and subsequently to the 5th International Congress of Maritime History, Greenwich, June 2008.

Review of Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England, Edited by John Blair, O.U.P., 2007.

International Journal of Maritime History, June 2009. 

I am also interested in the history of transport more generally

Road Charging: An Old Idea for New Times

Documentary proposal  developed for  Icon Films on the history of toll roads.

On the Road

Documentary proposal developed with Icon Films on the history of roads from the ancient trackways to the M25.

Talks I have given to  local history societies in Somerset can be found through this link:

www.jamesbarton.co.uk