Hakluyt Society recent news and forthcoming events

Hakluyt Society Recent News and Forthcoming Events

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this workshop has been postponed. We will post the new date as soon as it is known.

Editing workshop on 5 September, 2024.

We have decided to hold an editing workshop on 5 September 2024 at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD, near Euston Station, keeping our fingers crossed that there will be no transport disruption. This workshop will discuss:
– making a publication proposal to the Society,
– how the Council decides which proposals to accept,
– how the editing process is managed by the series editors,
– and various special subjects such as copyright, obtaining images, nautical terminology, and maps.
A buffet lunch will be provided and there will be no charge for attending.

Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop

Thursday 5 September 2024 10.00-16.00
At the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD
(near Euston Station)

PROGRAMME

10.00 Coffee
10.30 Welcome and Introduction by the President
10.45 Making a publication proposal to the Society, by Dr Katie Parker, Administrative Editor
11.15 How the Council decides which proposals to accept, by the President
11.30 The volume editor’s experience, with comments from Professor Janet Hartley about how editors can help themselves and the series editor.
12.00 The work of the series editor, by Professor Joyce Lorimer.
12.30 Discussion of points from the morning session.
13.00 Buffet lunch.
14.00 Hakluyt Society Quiz (with questions drawn from recent volumes).
14.30 Nautical terms and related issues, by Captain Mike Barritt, Vice-President.
15.00 Sourcing images and maps for Hakluyt Society volumes, copyright.
15.15 The material basis of a text and how this might impact editing, by Dr Anthony Payne, volume editor.
15. 40 Issues raised by attendees, questions and discussion.
16.00 Close

To apply to attend this event, please click here.

Latest volume in the Hakluyt Society 3rd Series (No. 42)

This is Anthony Payne’s Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580 -1588, a study of the early works of the writer, editor and translator of voyages and travels, Richard Hakluyt (1552 -1616), after whom the Society is named. The book examines the context and influence of Richard Hakluyt’s work and revises and expands on the Society’s previous publications about Hakluyt. The introduction includes a summary of the known details of Hakluyt’s life. This volume has been distributed to members starting in July 2024.

Hakluyt Society Essay Competition 2025

The Hakluyt Society awards annual essay prizes of £1250 to the winning essay, with a second prize of £250 to the runner-up (on occasions one or both prizes may be shared between entries). The competition is open to any registered graduate student at a higher education institution (a university or equivalent) or to anyone who has been awarded a graduate degree in the past three years. If possible, the prize will be presented at the Hakluyt Society’s Annual General Meeting in London.

Submissions for the 2025 prize are now invited, the deadline for which is 1 March 2025. For further details, and instructions on how to submit your essay, please download the information sheet.

Hakluyt Society Studies in the History of Travel

This is a separate series from the main Hakluyt Society volumes and will continue to be published by Routledge despite the main series moving to Boydell and Brewer. Professors Daniel Carey and Joan Pau Rubiés remain as the series editors. The third volume in the series has just been published, The Chronicler of China: Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (16th-17th centuries) by Diego Sola. This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618). These volumes are not part of the subscription entitlement but are available to members from Routledge at a 40% discount, by following the guidance in the members’ section of this website.

Hakluyt Society Essay Competition 2024

The Hakluyt Society is grateful to all entrants for submitting an essay for consideration in the 2024 Essay Competition and is pleased to announce this year’s results. This year’s winner of the prize of £1200 is Graham Moore, University of Reading, for his essay ‘Mutiny at the Edge of the World: Seafarers. Social Networks, and Shipboard Community during Hudson’s 1610 North West Passage Expedition’. The judges commended it as ‘a model essay that was tightly written and focused revealing exciting research that added new elements to the ill-fated Hudson expedition’.

Due to the exceptional quality of this year’s entries, the judges recommended the award of two Honourable Mentions, to Helen Hawken, Birkbeck, University of London, for ‘White Ladyes of the Pole: Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Travellers in the Arctic’ and to Samuel Cheney, University of Edinburgh, for ‘Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 1911’.

Congratulations to Graham, Helen, and Samuel. Details of how to enter the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Competition2025 will be announced later in the year.

Latest Videos

The 2024 Annual lecture was held on 12 June 2024. The lecturers were Council members Dr Guido van Meersbergen and Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki of the University of Warwick. The title of their lecture is “Decolonising Travel Studies: Notes for the Hakluyt Society”. A video of the lecture can be viewed here.

The 2023 Annual lecture was held on 21 June 2023. The lecturer was Dr Anthony Payne (Honorary Research Fellow University of East Anglia). The title of his lecture is: ‘What do we know about Richard Hakluyt?’ A video of the lecture can be viewed here.

Recent publications from the Hakluyt Society

THIRD SERIES 42: Anthony Payne: Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580–1588 / with Essays on the Suppression of the Voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and Hakluyt and the East India Company. 2024. xxxv + 767 pp. 36 coloured plates.

THIRD SERIES 41: Nigel Statham and Ian C. Campbell, eds.: An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. 2023. 552 pages 27 B/W Illustrations.

THIRD SERIES 40: The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696 – 1698) / The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship’s Surgeon. / Edited by Colin Heywood and Edmond Smith. 2022. pp. 280, 16 colour plates, 3 maps, index.

THIRD SERIES 39: Michael Brennan, ed.: English Travellers to Venice, 1450-1600. 2022, pp. xxxiv+433, 16 maps, 27 colour plates, 45 b/w illustrations, 29-page introduction, timeline, appendix, bibliography, index.

Includes 35 separate accounts, drawn from contemporary manuscripts and printed sources, of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice. The Introduction assesses elements of Anglo-Venetian relationships during the period.

THIRD SERIES 38: Glen F. Dille, ed.: Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535. From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. 206 pages, 6 maps, 26-page introduction, notes, bibliography.

THIRD SERIES 37: Derek L. Elliott, ed.: The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739. 203 pages, 8 maps, 4 colour plates, 9 monochrome illustrations, including a 33-page introduction, bibliography, etc.

THIRD SERIES 36: Judith E. Bosnak & Frans X. Koot, trans. & eds: The Javanese Travels of Purwalelana / A Nobleman’s Account of his Journeys across the Island of Java 1860-1875. 294 pages, 4 maps, 24 colour plates, 49 photographs, introduction, appendixes, bibliography.

THIRD SERIES 35: Editor Trevor H. Levere The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., the Naturalist in H.M.S. Alert, 1875-1876. xxxi + 400 pages, 10 maps, 17 colour plates, 68 figures. Includes a 34-page Introduction, appendices, bibliography, indexes.

The first publication of the daily diary of Feilden, one of the two full-time naturalists on what was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic.

Festschrift volume in honour of Vice-President Will Ryan

A volume has been published to celebrate our former president, Professor Will Ryan FBA: Magic, Travels and Texts: Homage to a Scholar, Will Ryan, ed. Janet Hartley and Denis J. B. Shaw. Among 21 chapters, a section on ‘Travel, Technology and Exploration’ includes three papers by volume editors of the Hakluyt Society and one by an international representative. For details of content and how to purchase, please follow this link.

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Anthony Payne, ed., Hakluyt & Oxford: Essays and Exhibitions Marking the Quatercentenary of the Death of Richard Hakluyt in 1616

The contents include catalogues by Anthony Payne of the two Oxford exhibitions, at Christ Church and at the Bodleian Library, together with essays by Jim Bennett, Anthony Payne and William Poole. A5 format, viii + 104 pp., 8 colour plates.

Price £5; including postage to UK: £6.80; to other European countries: £10.35; to the rest of the world: £12.65.

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