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Transatlantic Spaces of the Pilgrim Fathers: A Journey from England to Holland to America

Part 2 Dissertation 2018
Tristan Taylor
 Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) | UK
This essay is the first to examine the successive spaces that defined the seventeenth-century journey of the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ from their homes in Northern England, via exile in Holland, onboard the Mayflower, through to the founding of their colony in the ‘New World’ of America. Original archival and fieldwork research is combined with consultation with experts to situate the historical narrative of the Pilgrim Fathers within their sequential spatial experiences.

Tutor(s)
Professor Murray Fraser
2018
'Embarkation of the Pilgrims', Robert Walter Weir, 1857
'The Mayflower Trail': The Route of the Pilgrim Fathers. Illustrative Map, Author's Own
The Great Hall, Gainsborough Old Hall. In 1920 (right) and present condition (left).
A typical One-Room Weaver’s House, 17th Century Leiden. Drawing by Edwin Orsel. Annotated by author.
‘Woman baking pancakes’, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, ca. 1632
Pieter Bast Map of Leiden, 1600. Bast's incredibly accurate map of Leiden in 1600 gives us a detailed illustration of the various buildings the Pilgrims would have lived in.
Property ownership at the Groene Poort, Leiden. Based on Henry and Morton Dexter's 1905 drawing illustrating the ‘Groene Poort’ plan, as it is described in the 1612 deeds. Annotation by author.
Long Section through Mayflower. Author's own drawing, based on original Blueprint's for Mayflower II, stored at the National Archives at the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office.
‘Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620’, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899
Costumed Pilgrim child plays with 21st Century Visitor (top) and Postcard for Plimoth Plantation, 1959 (bottom).
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