Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Posted By: Richard Hakluyt Hakluyt Society Essay Prize and Grants Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 First prize of £1250: George Clay, Georgetown University, ‘The Many Lives of Francisco de Angola’. Second prize of £250 Peter Wells, University of East Anglia, ‘No Land Nor Ice in the Way: The Collision of Science and Reality in the Speedwell’s Search for the Northeast Passage (1676)’. And an Honourable Mention to James Fox, St Andrews University, for ‘Numeracy, otherness and the invention of “civilisation” in Anglo-European travel writing, c.1660–c.1800’. 2024 Prize winner: Graham Moore, University of Reading, ‘Mutiny at the Edge of the World: Seafarers. Social Networks, and Shipboard Community during Hudson’s 1610 North West Passage Expedition’. Honourable Mentions: Helen Hawken, Birkbeck, University of London, for ‘White Ladyes of the Pole: Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Travellers in the Arctic’Samuel Cheney, University of Edinburgh, for ‘Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 1911’. 2023 Prize-winner: Harry Lewis, University of Edinburgh, ‘St Malo to Callao: Maritime imperial conflict the Jacobites and the Viceroyalty of Peru 1701-1725’. Honorable Mention: Dan Brooks, Trinity College, Cambridge, for ‘‘Where is my Countryman’? James Fraser’s “Triennial Travels” and the British Diasporas in Europe, 1657-60′. 2022 Prize winner: Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard University, “Greatness,” Ancient Ruin: Writing Ottoman Architecture in England, 1580-1680 Honourable Mention: Jane McCrae Campbell, University of York, ‘The Self-Image of the Coloniser as Hero: Sir William Vaughan and The Golden Fleece (1626) of Newfoundland’ 2021 Prize winner: Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne, ‘Grateful Fresh Advices and Random Dark Relations; Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660-1710’. 2020 Prize winner: Dr Katie Bank (University of Sheffield) ‘Truth and Travel: The Principal Navigations and “Thule, the Period of Cosmographie”’. Honourable mention: Ellen Smith (University of Leicester) ‘Crafting Traditional Families in the British Empire: The Biography of Caroline Cuffley Giberne, 1803-1885’ 2019 Prize-winner: James Taylor (City, University of London) ‘Gift-Giving, Reciprocity and the Negotiation of Power in European Encounters with Southeast Asia, c.1500-1824’ Honourable mention: Lior Blum (University of Southampton), ‘Foundations Made of Wood, a Roof Made of Gold: the Influence of the Camwood Trade on the History of English Activity in West Africa in the Seventeenth Century’ 2018 Joint prize-winners: Darren Smith (University of Sydney), ‘Ex Typographia Savaraiana: Franco-Ottoman Relations and the First Oriental Printing Press in Paris’ and Witney Robles (Harvard University), ‘“A Different Species of Resistance”: When Corals became Animals and Animals had History’ 2017 Prize-winner: Annemarie McLaren (Australian National University), ‘Neither “Middle Ground” nor “Native Ground”: Reading the life of Goggey, an Aboriginal Man on the Fringes of Early Colonial Sydney’ Honourable mention: Cameron B. Strang (University of Nevada),‘Coacoochee’s Borderlands. A Native American Explorer in Nineteenth-Century North America’ 2016 Prize-winner: Nailya Shamgunova (University of Cambridge), ‘European Conceptualisations of Southeast Asian Sexual Diversity, c.1590-1640’ 2015 Prize-winner: Owain Lawson (Columbia University), ‘Constructing a Green Museum: French Environmental Imaginaries of Syria and Lebanon’. Honourable mentions: Amy Bowles (Girton College, Cambridge), ‘Sea Changes: The Manuscript Circulation of Sir Henry Mainwaring’s A Brief Abstract, Exposition and Demonstration of all Parts and Things belonging to a Ship and Practique of Navigation’ and Katherine Parker (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Circling a Paper World: the Global Process of Producing Pacific Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century’
