About the Hakluyt Society
The Hakluyt Society is a membership-based charity which publishes books in the field of exploration and voyages of discovery, and historical travel narratives.
Oxford, Richard Hakluyt and the Hakluyt Society
This post was originally written for the Oxford University Pensioners' Association Newsletter, which explains its focus on Oxford, and is reproduced from the current issue with permission. Academics today are encouraged to strive for ‘impact’: they are told they should communicate with a broader public than their specialist communities and demonstrate the value of their research to society at large. Richard Hakluyt was an Oxford scholar of the Elizabethan era, who made it his business to carry his scholarship into the wider world of literature, publication, commerce and politics. He worked hard all his life in pursuit of a very particular (and, as it turned out, prescient) thesis that he [...]
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Richard who? Introducing the Hakluyt Society
Richard Hakluyt For a Society that has been around for nearly 170 years, introducing ourselves like a novice may in some sense seem comical. And surely for the readers of our successful series of publications it is. However for those who are new to the Society, let us start by telling something about who we are and what we do. The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 and has been active as a publisher ever since. During this period, we have published more than 340 primary accounts of travel and exploration. A complete list can be found here. The Society is named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), collector and editor of [...]
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