The 2018 Thomas Harriot Lecture

Given by Professor Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway) this year’s Thomas Harriot Lecture will be in Oriel College, Oxford at 5 pm on Tuesday, 22 May 2018.
 
The title of Professor Carey’s lecture will be “Harriot, Hakluyt, and Newfound Virginia”.
 
The lecture will take place in the Champneys Room in Oriel and be followed by an informal drinks reception at 6pm.
 
Professor Carey has provided the following summary of his lecture:
 
Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) is one of the most remarkable attempts to describe and inspire settlement in the fledgling English colony. Richard Hakluyt, the great editor of travel and promoter of English expansion, supported the project and promoted Harriot's text. He gathered a range of early descriptions of Virginia in his anthology The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589; 1598-1600), including Harriot's. This lecture explores what we can learn from these companion accounts in rereading Harriot's narrative.
 
All welcome. For further details, please contact Mrs Rebecca Bricklebank at Oriel (rebecca.bricklebank@oriel.ox.ac.uk) or Professor Robert Fox (robert.fox@history.ox.ac.uk).