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## Looking In From the Edge Public Talk: Trade in the North Atlantic,
1400-1700 – ONLINE EVENT
Looking In from the Edge is the name of a new research project by a team of
archaeologists and historians from the University of the Highlands and Islands
Archaeology Institute, University of Lincoln and the German Maritime Museum in
Bremerhaven, on how emerging economies identified and adapted to opportunities
for trade in early modern Europe. This event will comprise five short talks on
various aspects of trade in the North Atlantic by the LIFTE Project Team.
During the early modern period the development of a world system of capitalist
trade gradually extended until it brought much of the globe within its
influence. In Europe as well, it led to peripheral places becoming closely
tied into continental European trade networks, transforming their largely
subsistence and low-level trading economies to commercialised, surplus-
producing ones. The research will look at how communities were affected and
became involved in the very early stages of the global economy that we know
today through the mechanism of the Hanseatic League and other trading networks
across the North Sea.

This event is the public part of the Kick-off Meeting for the Looking in From
the Edge (LIFTE) Project. In it members of the project team will outline the
background to the project and what they are planning to do:

Ingrid Mainland: Introduction to the LIFTE Project

Natascha Mehler and Mark Gardiner: The archaeology of trade in the North
Atlantic

Bart Holterman: Historical sources for trade in the North Atlantic

Paul Sharman: Looking ahead – the project research: archaeology

Sarah Jane Gibbon: Looking ahead – the project research: history

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accurate, we advise that you contact the event organiser before attending the
event to avoid disappointment.

Pictured: Leader of the German research team, Dr Natascha Mehler, from the
German Maritime Museum, surveying the trading site at Gunnister Voe,
Northmavine, Shetland, which was in use around 1600. (Image Credit: Mark
Gardiner)
During the early modern period the development of a world system of capitalist
trade gradually extended until it brought much of the globe within its
influence. In Europe as well, it led to peripheral places becoming closely
tied into continental European trade networks, transforming their largely
subsistence and low-level trading economies to commercialised, surplus-
producing ones. The research will look at how communities were affected and
became involved in the very early stages of the global economy that we know
today through the mechanism of the Hanseatic League and other trading networks
across the North Sea.
This event is the public part of the Kick-off Meeting for the Looking in From
the Edge (LIFTE) Project. In it members of the project team will outline the
background to the project and what they are planning to do:
Looking in From the Edge (LIFTE) Project
Ingrid Mainland: Introduction to the LIFTE Project
Natascha Mehler and Mark Gardiner: The archaeology of trade in the North
Atlantic
Bart Holterman: Historical sources for trade in the North Atlantic
Paul Sharman: Looking ahead – the project research: archaeology
Sarah Jane Gibbon: Looking ahead – the project research: history
While Dig It! takes every opportunity to ensure that this information is
accurate, we advise that you contact the event organiser before attending the
event to avoid disappointment.
While Dig It! takes every opportunity to ensure that this information is
accurate, we advise that you contact the event organiser before attending the
event to avoid disappointment.
Pictured: Leader of the German research team, Dr Natascha Mehler, from the
German Maritime Museum, surveying the trading site at Gunnister Voe,
Northmavine, Shetland, which was in use around 1600. (Image Credit: Mark
Gardiner)
Pictured: Leader of the German research team, Dr Natascha Mehler, from the
German Maritime Museum, surveying the trading site at Gunnister Voe,
Northmavine, Shetland, which was in use around 1600. (Image Credit: Mark
Gardiner)

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University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute (ONLINE)