Glyndwyr Williams

Glyndwr Williams has been Professor of History as Queen Mary College, London since 1974 and has specialized in this history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of the University of London in 1997.

He has been President and Trustee of the Hakluyt Society

Awards and Honours

The Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum.

Hon. D.Litt. from La Trobe University

Pubished Works

Alan Frost and Jane Samson, eds., Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999), pp. 271-275, contains a bibliography of "The Works of Glyndwr Williams" between 1959 and 1998. Additional works since 1998 include:

• The Great South Sea

• The Prize of all the Oceans

• Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason (2001)