Periodic Reporting for period 2 - AISLES (Archipelagic Imperatives: Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800)

The project pursues the history of humanitarian shipwreck relief in European societies from c. 1800 onward. Around this time, in the context of a wider social movement for the formation of volunteer lifeboat stations a novel moral imperative emerged: to always attempt the...