Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 3.1 (November 1995)

Notes & Queries

Upcoming Conferences: De-Centering the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, 1350-1700, March 7-10, 1996, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; for information, contact G. Warkentin, Victoria University, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ont., M5S 1K7, Canada, (416) 585-4584 (fax), or e-mail “warkent@epas.utoronto.ca” (conference registration limited to 125). North American Society for Oceanic History, Annual Meeting, March 28-31, 1996, Charlestown Naval Shipyard, Boston, Massachussettes; for information, contact William S. Dudley, 1996 NASOH Program Chair, Naval Historical Center, Navy Yard Bldg. 57, Washington, DC, 20374-5060.

Call for Papers: Telling About the South: A Graduate Student Conference on Race and Southern History, March 23-24, 1996, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. This Year’s conference will focus on race and southern history from the pre-colonial period through the twentieth century. It is hoped that conference papers will be published, as they have been in previous years. Please limit papers to 25 pages. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 1996. Send papers to “Telling about the South,” c/o Juliette Landphair, Randall Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (southcon@darwin.clas.virginia.edu).

Two special tributes to the late Dr. Helen Wallis are now available. The Globe My World is an 84-page volume containing tributes from 61 of Dr. Wallis’s friends and colleagues (£8 in the United Kingdom, £10/$18 outside). Dr. Helen Wallis Reminiscing is a 90-minute video of Helen talking in her St. John’s Wood flat in August 1994 to Sara Tyacke and Tony Campbell about the people and incidents of her professional life outside the British Library, and particularly about her travels (£15 in the United Kingdom, £18/$32 outside). Profits from these items go to the Helen Wallis Fellowship, a new fellowship that will give preference to proposals that relate particularly to the collections of the British Library, that seek to explore the interdependence of cartographic or other sources in historical investigation, and that they have an international dimension. For more information, contact: The Map Librarian, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom. [Editor’s Note: Videos made for British televisions may not show properly on televisions in other countries.]

The Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar has proposed compiling an updated version of John Shirley’s 1984 bibliography of materials about Thomas Harriot. Please send the seminar full bibliographical information for any items that did not appear in Shirley’s original bibliography or that have appeared since its publication. Items can be sent to Professor G. R. Batho, School of Education, University of Durham, Leazes Road, Durham, DH1 1TA, United Kingdom.

David Gwyn has discovered a reference to Thomas Hariot in the Wyn family papers. In particular, Sir Francis Davey of Richmond, Surrey, writes to Sir John Wynn on September 22, 1618, that he will consult Hariot, “my dear neighbor,” about his mineral interests (lead, copper, and alum). Mr. Gwyn is interested in other references to Hariot and metallurgy. He can be reached at 2 Bryn Meurig, Tal y Sarn, Pen y Groes, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL54 6HW, United Kingdom.

Top
Contents Page