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Glyndwr Williams (born 1932) has been Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of 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.


Contents


	1 Academic career
	2 Awards and honours
	3 Published works
	4 References
	5 Sources
	6 External links





Academic career[edit]

Williams earned his bachelor's degree and PhD at the University of London. He became reader in history at Queen Mary College, London and was then promoted to professor. He served as general editor of the Hudson's Bay Record Society and he has been President and Trustee of the Hakluyt Society.


Awards and honours[edit]

	The Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum
	Hon. D.Litt. from La Trobe University
	National Outdoor Book Award (Honorable Mention, History/Biography category), for Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, 2009


Published works[edit]

	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 (1997)
	The Prize of all the Oceans (1999)
	Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason (2001)
	Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers: British Encounters and Enterprise in the Pacific, 1670-1800 (2005)
	The Death of Captain Cook: A hero made and unmade (2008)
	Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (2009)
	Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin (2013)


References[edit]




Sources[edit]

	Contemporary Authors
	Alan Frost and Jane Samson, eds., Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999)


External links[edit]

	Works by or about Glyndwr Williams in libraries (WorldCat catalog)


	Authority control 	
	BNE: XX1016087
	BNF: cb12020855b (data)
	CANTIC: a11285382
	GND: 122479041
	ISNI: 0000 0001 1450 2325
	LCCN: n50015761
	NKC: pna2006362552
	NLG: 99247
	NTA: 067714226
	SELIBR: 380688
	SUDOC: 02835639X
	VIAF: 85107232
	 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50015761














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