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I am not sure if each of my archives should count as a research site, or if the individual locations will count. I chose to divide things geographically. I have a lot of archives on my list but I have not had time to start researching which ones will be most useful. Most of these resources were suggested by scholars in the trans-Atlantic/Atlantic World field.


 * London, England**
 * Library of National Maritime Museum, London, UK: This site has over four hundred books and pamphlets on piracy and privateering including the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and the West Indies. These materials contain relevant correspondence between colonial governors and the Office of Trade and Plantations in London.
 * British National Archives, Kew, UK: Contains records and correspondences from the British Royal Navy as well as newspaper articles on pirate attacks and trials from colonial British settlements. Additionally, there are captain's logs and letters, colonial office records from the Bahamas and Jamaica, and translations of Spanish and Vatican documents from the Archive of the West Indies, Seville, Spain.
 * The Public Record Office in Kew, UK: This collection contains ships' logbooks, captain's letters, trial documents and the depositions of seamen and pirate victims.
 * British Library's outstation at Colindale: Contains microfilm copies of reports of pirate attacks and trials from contemporary newspapers. Have already been in contact with staff to arrange a visit, a tour of the archives, and meetings with researchers.


 * Washington DC**
 * The Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA. This library also contains a large collection of historical documents relating to piracy and privateering. Additonally, there are a number of documents, largely correspondences, discussing the use of quinine and other Native American plants in military medicine. The Library offers an introductory course to using the archives.


 * Caribbean**
 * National Library of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. Contains over 40,000 documents on the history of Jamaica and the West Indies from the sixteenth century to the present. The Library has copies of publications from the eighteenth century which are the only known ones to have survived.
 * Institute of Jamaica/Natural Museum of History, Kingston, Jamaica. The Port Royal Collection, primarily recovered from underwater archaeological excavations, represents the history of Port Royal before and after the earthquake in 1692.
 * Jamaican Historical Society, Kingston, Jamaica. I'm not sure what is available here, as they have the worst website ever, but I believe there is a collection of local and national documents.
 * National Archives of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas. The Department of Archives services firstly, the government by preserving and making available records which are essential for the effective administration of public business. I am not sure exactly what I will need to research at this time, as a list of the entire collection is not online, however, researchers are available to do free preliminary or basic research for overseas scholars.
 * Bahamas Historical Society Museum, Nassau, Bahamas. The museum has a decent collection and also its own library. It also publishes a journal on scholarly research into the history of the Bahamas.
 * Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies. The Museum’s library contains over 5,000 works dating from the 17th to 20th centuries which deal primarily with the areas of Barbadian and Caribbean history, natural history, archaeology and genealogy. There is a significant collection of rare books including early publications on Barbados by Richard Ligon and Rev. Griffith Hughes plus other titles on Caribbean history by Lady Nugent and Poyer.