The project investigates the cultures of diplomacy from 1677-1860 between the British Crown and the Six Nations of the Iroquois - the dominant indigenous confederacy of the Northeastern Great Lakes and Canada - and in particular the Covenant Chain, a series of treaties that defined the bonds of alliance between the two. By analysing and bringing interpretative cohesion to a large, unstudied and dispersed set of UK and North American archives and material culture, the project hopes to reveal a new dimension of the British political, cultural and imperial past, and showcase examples of reciprocal ‘right relationship’ between nations.
As part of the project KDL is creating an interface which will let users explore data gleaned from colonial-era maps of the American northeast, and to follow stories which dynamically put the data into context.
Team
- Elliott Hall Research Software Engineer
- Joy Porter Principal investigator, University of Birmingham
- Lucie Mingmei Hao Research Software Designer
- Matthias Wong Researcher, University of Birmingham
- Neil Jakeman KDL Research Software Analyst
- Paul Caton KDL Research Software Analyst
- Tiffany Ong KDL Research Software Designer