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 Competition 2025 will be announced later in the year.
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