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How to join the Hakluyt Society
Alternatively, if you do not wish to subscribe online, you may fill in the enrolment form and send it to our administrator, Mr Richard Bateman, by post, accompanied by your cheque, credit card form or banker's order. His address is given on the form.
Existing members of the Society may renew their subscription online by credit card by logging into the Members' Area. Alternatively, members may print out a renewal form (below) and post it with their cheque to the Administrator.
Subscription rates, entitlements and methods of payment
Membership of the Society is based on an annual subscription, usually paid at the beginning of, or immediately prior to the year of membership. New members may subscribe at any time of the year and will be entitled to receive all of the Society's publications issued for that particular subscription year (see Note below), including those that have already been distributed to members. Because the bulk of the subscription goes towards the production of the books, it is understandable that no reduction in subscription rates can be offered to members joining late in the year.
If, for reasons beyond our control, a volume issued for a particular year is delayed, members who have paid for the year of issue will be entitled to receive the volume even if their subscription has since lapsed.
Note: The 'subscription year' is shown on the first printed page of each volume with the wording 'Issued for ...' This year may differ from the publication date shown on the title page. For example, a member who has paid only for the year 2007 will be entitled to receive all volumes 'issued for' 2007, even though these might be imprinted with the year 2008 and might not arrive with the member until then. However, the member will not be entitled to receive volumes issued for the previous year, 2006, even though their distribution might have been delayed until 2007.
Following approval at the Annual General Meeting of the Society on 27th June 2007, the following subscription rates will apply from 1st January 2008-31st December 2008:
US$ 95.00 for cheques drawn on United States banks
₤50.00 for the United Kingdom and all other countries
The charge for members who pay by Visa or Mastercard will be £52.50 (for the year 2008) which includes a 5% surcharge to cover the transaction charges made by the credit card companies. Members residing outside the UK will be billed according the the exchange rate in force at the time of the transaction.
Payment may be made by Sterling cheque, US dollar cheque, Visa, Mastercard or banker's order.
Please note that, with regard to the increase in subscription, members paying by banker's order will need to complete new forms for 2008.
Banker’s order forms, onwards from January 2008, are available by clicking here. Members are reminded of the convenience both to them and the Society of payment by this method.
For existing members wishing to renew for 2008, a form is available by clicking here.
For members wishing backdate their renewal to 2007, a form is available by clicking here. The subscription cost for the year 2007 is £40 or US$80.
The Society is grateful to those members who pay their subscription promptly and without a reminder.
Gift Aid on subscriptions (UK members only)
If you pay income tax in the UK the Hakluyt Society as a registered charity can claim from HM Revenue and Customs a sum equal to the amount of tax you have paid on your membership subscription or donations to the Society. This involves no more than filling in a simple form, signing it and sending it to the Administrator at the address provided on the form.
Gift Aid is an important source of income to the Hakluyt Society, and it costs you nothing. To download the form, please click here.
Benefits of Membership
Members of the Society are entitled to:
1. Receive all volumes issued by the Society, other than those of the Extra Series, during the period of their membership. Such volumes are distributed (free and post free) to members.
2. Purchase earlier volumes (if still in print) and additional copies of current volumes at discounted prices which are about twenty per cent below those at which the Society's publications are sold to the public. (Click here for books still in print)
3. Purchase volumes issued in the Extra Series at special rates, from 20 to 30% below the retail published prices.
4. Receive the 'List of Publications in Print' and the 'Annual Report'.
5. Attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting held in London. Each year a distinguished speaker is invited to give a lecture to members of the Society and their guests following the conclusion of the AGM.
For details of the American Friends of the Hakluyt Society, please click here. |
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