We are delighted to announce that the archive of the Hakluyt Society is now catalogued as part of the India Office Private Papers and available to researchers at the British Library. You can read more about the Society archive and its place in the BL’s collections on their Blog.
The archive contains papers relating to the running of the Society, including signed Council Minutes, Committee papers, administrative records and financial papers, and correspondence and other papers generated by the work of the Society’s various Honorary Secretaries. Descriptions of the archive can be found via the British Library’s Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue, and researchers can consult material in their Asian and African Studies Reading Room.
A special thank you to Lesley Shapland, Cataloguer, India Office Records, for the detailed British Library Blog post about the Hakluyt Society Archive.
The Hakluyt Society Blog 