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Notices and news from the Hakluyt Society – events, publications, meetings, conferences, workshops, essay competition winners
Welcome to our redesigned Hakluyt Society blog
We hope you like the new design of the Hakluyt Society blog! All of the content from the previous blog has been transferred here at https://blog.hakluyt.com/. The new layout should make it easier for you to find archived posts of interest to you and new posts will appear here from now on. Guest posts related to the Hakluyt Society, to its publications and to Richard Hakluyt are welcome, especially reviews of our volumes. If you would like to publish a relevant post, please contact blog@hakluyt.com If you would like to be informed by email when new posts appear, please register using the Subscribe email address submission field on the right. […]
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The Hakluyt Society is seeking series editors
Series editor opportunity - we are seeking to recruit new series editors for the Hakluyt Society. Our Society has been publishing important historical texts on travel and exploration since 1846, documenting significant accounts which further our geographical, political, economic and cultural understanding of the world and its peoples. The series editors are essential officers of the Hakluyt society. They are the link between the editor of the text (the author) and the Society. They play a crucial role in ensuring that we maintain the high standards of our texts and achieve a regular flow of publications for our readers. At the same time, the series editors need to be aware [...]
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Follow us on Facebook
Announcements of forthcoming volumes and other publications, imminent publication and distribution of volumes, as well as details of the upcoming AGM usually appear first on the Hakluyt Society Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HakluytSociety/ . In addition, details of the upcoming Hakluyt Society Essay Prize competition and the announcement of the Essay Prize winners usually appear there first. From time to time, we provide useful notes on the navigators, explorers, travel accounts and voyages of discovery represented in the Hakluyt Society back list, with details of the volumes referred to, and sometimes we share posts from other Facebook pages that might interest our members.
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Nelson’s Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power
by Captain Michael Barritt RN, Past President of the Hakluyt Society ‘Your friend Capt. Johnstone is or will be confirmed.’ The First Sea Lord, Earl St Vincent, lost no time in assuring his correspondent, the eminent and influential Sir Joseph Banks. James Johnstone, recently returned from successful command of a sloop in the West Indies, was just one of the veterans of the eighteenth century Pacific voyages whose front-line employment on survey work in the wars of 1793-1815 would be urged by Banks. The mapping and charting campaigns on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America, and the exploratory voyages into the surrounding oceans, were a school for men [...]
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Warburg Institute Online Maps & Society Lecture with Bertie Mandleblatt
Thursday 2 March 2023, at 5 pm UTC/GMT We are very pleased to announce that Hakluyt Society Council member, Bertie Mandleblatt, the George S. Parker II, 52 Curator of Maps and Prints, at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island will be the speaker for the online Maps and Society lecture, organized by the Warburg Institute, London. Bertie will speak on ‘Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean’. These lectures focus on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the [...]
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Lecture: Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery
We are very pleased to report that Hakluyt Society Council member, Bertie Mandleblatt, the George S. Parker II, Curator of Maps and Prints, at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, was the speaker for the online Maps and Society lecture, organized by the Warburg Institute, London. Bertie spoke on ‘Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean’. These lectures focus on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. Many speakers are internationally well-known scholars [...]
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The Archive of the Hakluyt Society at the British Library
Mss Eur F594/1/3-4: Hakluyt Society Council Minutes, 1965-1987. We are delighted to announce that the archive of the Hakluyt Society is now catalogued as part of the India Office Private Papers and available to researchers at the British Library. The archive contains papers relating to the running of the Society, including signed Council Minutes, Committee papers, administrative records and financial papers, and correspondence and other papers generated by the work of the Society’s various Honorary Secretaries. Descriptions of the archive can be found via the British Library’s Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue, and researchers can consult material in their Asian and African Studies Reading Room. A special thank you to [...]
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In memoriam: Will Ryan and The Hakluyt Society
Will Ryan’s long, distinguished and affectionate relationship with the Hakluyt Society has thrived on its particular set of virtues: a love of books and of learning, respect for record made accessible through editorship, an interest in people in their historical circumstances, and the simple pleasure of knowing things and sharing them. These features made the Society a natural locus for Will and he in turn has upheld its values and character. Front cover of Festschrift for Will Ryan, published April 2021. The Hakluyt Society has maintained a core purpose since its foundation in 1846: to publish scholarly editions of primary accounts of voyages and other travels in durable volumes and [...]
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In memoriam: Professor Roy Bridges
Roy was a leading member of the Hakluyt Society, which he joined in 1962. In 1964 he was appointed to the University of Aberdeen, where he became Professor of History, having previously taught at Makerere University in Uganda. His research and writing were mainly concerned with East Africa in the nineteenth century. He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. Roy developed a great affection for the Hakluyt Society, where he had many friends and to whose work he made many important contributions. His commitment to the Society never faded. He served several terms on Council and was President for all of six [...]
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Hakluyt & Oxford: Essays and Exhibitions Marking the Quatercentenary of the Death of Richard Hakluyt in 1616, edited by Anthony Payne
The booklet of 112 pages with eight coloured illustrations includes three essays based on lectures given at the various events, the catalogue notes of the two exhibitions and the conference programme, as follows: Hakluyt, Aristotle and Oxford Anthony Payne Instruments and Practical Mathematics in the Commonwealth of Richard Hakluyt Jim Bennett Richard Hakluyt: From Oxford to the Moon William Poole Richard Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 An Exhibition at Christ Church Hakluyt: The World in a Book An Exhibition at the Bodleian Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World Conference Programme Anthony Payne is a past Vice-President of the Hakluyt Society, and with Daniel Carey and Claire [...]
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