Dr Graham Moore
- Roles
- Author
- Researcher
Records Specialist – Early Modern Parliament
About
Graham Moore is an early modern historian, focusing on maritime and social histories, particularly in the colonial Atlantic world.
Research activity
Graham’s current research focus is on the records of early modern Parliament, including legislation, petitioning, and popular ‘participatory’ engagement in politics.
He is also curating Revolution 250, The National Archives’ upcoming exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.
Graham completed his PhD here at The National Archives, as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project with the University of Reading. Graham’s doctoral thesis focused on piracy in the early 17th-century north Atlantic, using depositions from the High Court of Admiralty’s criminal records series.
He previously taught at the University of Reading, and has worked with organisations like Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Royal Berkshire Archives on research and public engagement projects.
Publications
‘Mutiny at the Edge of the World? Maritime Custom and Shipboard Disorder During Henry Hudson’s 1610 Northwest Passage Expedition’, Journal of Early American History 16, No. 1-2 (May 2026), pp. 5-45
'Finding George Freeman: a "Liberated African" in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition', Slavery & Abolition 46, No. 1 (2024), 207-229.
'Newfoundland Cod and English Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century', Mariner's Mirror 110, No. 2 (2024), 210-222.
'The Liues, Apprehensions, Arraignments, and Executions of the 19 Late Pyrates: Jacobean Piracy in Law and Literature', Humanities 11, No. 4 (2022), 82.
Contact
If you are interested in collaborating on an academic research project, please get in touch.
Articles
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Focus on
The American privateer and the secret copy of the Declaration of Independence
Uncover the story of the Dalton, and her rare copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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Blog post
Finding a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence
In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.
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Focus on
Anglo-Indigenous diplomacy in colonial North America
Our records offer unique insight into the careful diplomacy that took place in North America during the 18th century.