MOC Culture and Society
How people actually lived — aboard ship, in port, at war, and at peace.
Subdomains
- Daily_Life_Index — press gangs, sailor routines, mess life, crime and punishment, shore leave
- Medicine_Health_Index — ship surgeons, amputation, disease, hospital ships, battlefield medicine
- Class_Social_Structure_Index — officer class vs lower deck, aristocracy, social mobility through war
- Art_Literature_Index — paintings, poems, novels, theatre inspired by or about warfare
- Women_Gender_Index — women at sea, camp followers, nurses, widows, gender and war
Key Notes
- Hardy Stature — Six Feet Four — first filled daily-life note; 6 ft 4 in only
- Nelson Stature — Five Feet Six — 5 ft 6 in only; overflow
- Hardy Shoe-Buckle — Trafalgar 21 October 1805 — buckle only; overflow
- Collingwood Discipline — Grog-Watering — discipline habit only; overflow
- North Walsham — Chatham Stage — stage / wandering only; overflow
- Boreas Mast-Head — Midshipmen — mast-head / school-room / quadrant only; overflow
- Raisonnable Deck — First Days Unnoticed — first days unnoticed only; overflow
- Post-Captain Seniority List — first filled class-social-structure note; seniority rule only
- Horatia Nelson — Biography — first filled women-gender note; parentage only
- Berkeley Anne Louisa — Lady Hardy — Halifax marriage, November 1807
- Sarah Blackett Collingwood — Lady Collingwood — June 1791 marriage only
- Mary Moutray — English Harbour 1784 — attraction and sketches, 1784 only
- Collingwood Merchant Family — Later Bankrupt — those two phrases only
- Turner — Fighting Temeraire Named — first filled art-literature note; Turner naming only
- Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson — cockpit hours; occupies Medicine_Health
- Amputation Surgery at Sea — 18th Century — Tenerife operation, 24 July 1797
- Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type — 32-pounder splinter sentence
- Collingwood Splinter Wound — Trafalgar 21 October 1805 — Trafalgar wound only; overflow
- Janus Cot — Port Royal — cot landing only; overflow