Glyn Williams

Glyn Williams has been professor of History at Queen Mary and Westfield since 1974 and has specialised in the history of exploration and of Europe overseas. He has travelled and lectured in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies. He has published many books including The British Search for the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century, The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century, The Great Map of Mankind, Terra Australis to Australia, Ruling Britannia, The Voyages of Captain Cook, The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters 1570-1750. He lives in Kent and was appointed Emeritus Professor of the University of London in September 1997.