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The Team
Emily Akkermans
Emily Akkermans is Curator of Time at Royal Museums Greenwich, which is a project partner of ‘Tools of Knowledge’. Her research interests include the use of marine chronometers at sea in the nineteenth century.
Alex Butterworth
Alex Butterworth (@rachkovsky) is an author of narrative history and a Digital Public Historian, both as theorist and practitioner. He is Co-Investigator on ‘Tools of Knowledge’.
Mike Dryland
Mike Dryland (@Scapegoat9) is a volunteer at Royal Museums Greenwich. He has been helping the horology and curatorial team with enquiries and research projects for the past 10 years.
Rebekah Higgitt
Rebekah Higgitt (@rhiggitt) is a historian of science and Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland. She is Co-Investigator on ‘Tools of Knowledge’.
Dorothy Mellor
Dorothy Mellor is a volunteer at Royal Museums Greenwich. She has been working on the chronometer ledgers for over 10 years and has transcribed key information of over 10,000 records.
Sarah Middle
Sarah Middle is a Digital Humanities specialist, working on metadata modelling and usability in a cultural heritage context. She is a postdoctoral researcher on 'Tools of Knowledge'.
Denice Penrose
Denice Penrose is project administrator on the 'Tools of Knowledge' project.
Volunteers
Thanks also to Sarah Wood, Peter Linstead-Smith, Heather Bennett, Lucy Shiels and Alice Smith for their past and current efforts in this project.
