Staff Profile Dr David Jenkins
Honorary Research Fellow
Contact Details
Heol Crochendy
Parc Nantgarw
CF15 7QT
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3560
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BA, PhD History (Wales); Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History & Classics, Swansea University; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; co-editor, Cymru a’r Môr/Maritime Wales; member of the editorial board of Folk Life; Member, British Commission for Maritime History.
Research Interests
Main research interests are in Welsh merchant shipping history from c. 1750 to the present day (publications include books and articles related to this theme); specialised in the history of Cardiff’s tramp shipping industry, looking at such aspects as the development of the local shipowners’ association, individual shipowners such as Sir William Reardon Smith, and the history of shipping companies founded at Cardiff by natives of the coastal communities of north and west Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Keywords
Transport collections, maritime, railways, road transport, ships, tramp shipping, shipping companies, shipowners.Selected Publications
Jenkins, D. 2014. Smith, Sir William Reardon, 1st Baronet of Appledore, co. Devon, 1856-1935. www.oxforddnb.com (login required).
Jenkins, D. 2013. Shipowners of Cardiff: a class by themselves. A history of the Cardiff & Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association (2nd edition, Cardiff: University of Wales Press).
Jenkins, D. 2013. Shipping at Cardiff: photographs from the Hansen Collection, 1920-1975 (2nd edition, Cardiff: University of Wales Press).
Jenkins, D. 2011. From Ship’s Cook to Baronet: Sir William Reardon Smith’s Life in Shipping, 1856-1935 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press).
Jenkins, D. 2005. Llafurwyr y Môr/The Toilers of the Sea (The first Aled Eames Memorial Lecture, Partneriaeth Moelfre Partnership).
Jenkins, D. 2004. Llongau y Chwarelwyr? Investments by Caernarfonshire slate quarrymen in local shipping companies in the late nineteenth century. Welsh History Review, 22, no.1.
Jenkins, D. 2004. Llongau Pwllparc, Rag & Bones Jones a’r Welsh Greeks: rhai o berchnogion llongau Cymreig Caerdydd, Cof Cenedl, XIX.
Jenkins, D. 2000. Shipbuilding and shipowning in Montgomeryshire: the Evans family of Morben Isaf, Derwenlas. Montgomeryshire Collections, 88.
Jenkins, D. (ed.) 1999. The Historical Atlas of Montgomeryshire, (Powysland Club).