Hakluyt Society news
Notices and news from the Hakluyt Society – events, publications, meetings, conferences, workshops, essay competition winners
Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop, London, Friday 4 May 2018
The first one-day Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop will take place on Friday 4 May at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. There will be a range of contributions from scholars who are or have been involved with Hakluyt Society published volumes, including substantial talks from Professor Michael Brennan, Dr Angela Byrne and Professor Joyce Lorimer. The aims of the workshop are to encourage interest in the academic editing of texts for publication and to offer practical support and advice to those engaged on editing projects. While the emphasis will be on the Society’s approach to text editing, the workshop will be of value to anyone involved with or [...]
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In memoriam: Dr Ian Jackson (1935-2017)
Dr Ian Jackson (1935-2017) on the Amazon river on his 82nd birthday. Brazil, 11 February 2017. Photo credit: Mrs Merlyn Jackson. Ian Jackson was born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1935 and studied geography at London and McGill Universities. His career had an unusual range, as he worked for institutions as varied as the Canadian International Geophysical Year, the London School of Economics, the Government of Canada and the United Nations (serving in Geneva and in New York). In 1957-8 as a graduate research student he was part of Operation Hazen at the Canadian Defence Research Board weather and research station at Lake Hazen on Ellesmere Island where the team was [...]
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Navigation: An Even Shorter Introduction by Jim Bennet
JB: My little book Navigation: A Very Short Introduction was published earlier this year and, as a more commercial work than my usual brief, I’ve had unfamiliar opportunities to speak at a few promotional events. I always accept, not because I imagine selling lots of books, but because it’s a nice experience that may never come again. So, I’m one of those speakers on the festival fringe, where the venue is a pub or bookshop, and a few people turn up because they want to fill their schedules and these tickets are free. Still, it’s fun – nice to feel part of the larger occasion and briefly to wear a [...]
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2015 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize
First, some words about the 2015 prize run. This year the prize committee consisted of Daniel Carey, Surekha Davies (Chair), Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Peter Hulme, Claire Jowitt and Suzanne Schwartz. They announced the results during the 169th Annual General Meeting of the Hakluyt Society, which took place in London on Wednesday 26 June 2015. Among a number of high-quality submissions, the committee held the opinion that the single outstanding contribution was the essay by Owain Lawson (Columbia University), entitled: ‘Constructing a Green Museum: French Environmental Imaginaries of Syria and Lebanon’. The Society is pleased that Mr Lawson could be present as the Society’s guest at the AGM, where he received a [...]
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Editing Hakluyt’s “The Principal Navigations”
Editing Hakluyt’s "The Principal Navigations": A (nearly) 10-year Progress Report By Claire Jowett Dan Carey and I first talked about producing a new scholarly edition of Richard Hakluyt’s major work The Principal Navigations over a drink on Friday December 9th 2005 after both attending a conference ‘New Worlds Reflected’, organised by Chloe Houston at Birkbeck, University of London. We both agreed that the lack of a scholarly edition of what is arguably the most important travel text ever published was a serious impediment to early modern scholarship, and we started to talk about what we could do about it. But which edition should be produced? The 1589 single-volume one, or [...]
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On Hakluyt Society business: Sarah Tyacke in California
On a research visit to the Huntington Library, past president Sarah Tyacke met Professor Emeritus (UCLA) Norman Thrower now aged 96 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He is a long time member of the Society and of the American Friends of the Hakluyt Society, and was the editor of The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701 published in 1981. He is in good health and remembers his editorship of the Hakluyt Society volumes with some pride. Sarah Tyacke visiting Professor Emeritus Norman Thrower Also at the Huntington Library, Sarah gave a short talk on the history of the Society based closely on the work of Roy [...]
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