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Subject: Helen Wallis Fellowship: invitation to applicants
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:24:49 -0000
From: Barber, Peter <[log in to unmask]>
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THE HELEN WALLIS FELLOWSHIP AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
CLOSING DATE:1 MAY 2004
This annual, named fellowship offers a convenient and unusually privileged
working environment in the British Library. The Fellow will be treated like
a member of staff (i.e. not restricted to reading room hours) and provided
with their own work-station, with an e-mail account and access to the
Internet. In addition, they will be entitled to £300 to spend on Library
services.
The award honours the memory of the former Map Librarian at the British
Museum and then British Library, Dr Helen wallis OBE (1967-1986) and confers
recognition by the Library on a scholar, from any field, whose work will
help promote the extended and complementary use of the British Library's
book and cartographic collections in historical investigation.
Preference will be given to proposals that relate to the Library's
collections and have an international dimension. The fellowship may be held
as a full or part-time appointment, and would normally be for 6-12 months.
For the full terms of reference please contact the undersigned.
It would be most helpful if you told us where you saw this notice.
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Peter Barber
Head of Map Collections
Map Library
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Fellowship details
There will be an annual award. The fellowship may be held as a full or
part-time appointment, but would normally be for one or two periods,
totalling a minimum of 6 months. The maximum period will be one calendar
year.
The fellow will not be restricted to reading room hours and will be able to
order material from the collection and access databases on the same basis as
staff members.
There may be an opportunity for the fellow to deliver a public lecture in
the British Library on their research project.
A trust fund set up for this purpose has attracted donations from friends,
former colleagues and admirers of Helen Wallis from all parts of the world.
A sum of £300 will be made available to the fellow to be spent in the
British Library, on photographs, books, or any other charged service. This
award could usefully overlap with other forms of support.
Applications
Please submit a letter of application, indicating the period you intend to
be in London and outlining your proposed research project, together with a
full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to: Map Librarian,
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK. The closing date
for each annual award will be May 1st.
Helen Wallis
Dr Helen Wallis OBE (1924-95) was Map Librarian at the British Museum and
then British Library for 19 years (1967-86) but her reputation rests as much
on her prolific scholarly output and on the range of learned and
professional organisations in which she played so active a part.
Helen Wallis's historical interests were diverse, including geographical
globes; the mapping of voyages and colonial settlement, particularly in
North America and Australia; the supposedly 15th century Vinland Map; the
Jesuit mapping of China; and thematic mapping of the last century. Over and
above these specific topics, her work was characterised by two qualities.
Firstly, as a geographically-trained historian, it seemed natural to her to
reach across disciplinary boundaries, especially those that had
traditionally separated the studies of maps and texts. She showed
historians how they had neglected vital evidence of a non-geographic kind on
maps, and she taught map historians the value of related textual sources.
Secondly, she was a gifted communicator, whose enthusiasm for each of her
many and varied interests showed through so clearly in her lectures,
publications and broadcasts.
It confers recognition by the Library on a scholar, from any field, whose
work will help promote the extended and complementary use of the British
Library's book and cartographic collections in historical investigation. An
international dimension would be an advantage. Applicants will therefore be
expected to refer, in appropriate detail, to the classes of material they
intend to consult. They are also invited to demonstrate the ways in which
their research would subsequently be disseminated.
Fellowship details
There will be an annual award. The fellowship may be held as a full or
part-time appointment, but would normally be for one or two periods,
totalling a minimum of 6 months. The maximum period will be one calendar
year.
The fellow will be treated like a member of staff and provided with their
own work-station, with an e-mail account and access to the Internet.
The fellow will not be restricted to reading room hours and will be able to
order material from the collection and access databases on the same basis as
staff members.
There may be an opportunity for the fellow to deliver a public lecture in
the British Library on their research project.
A trust fund set up for this purpose has attracted donations from friends,
former colleagues and admirers of Helen Wallis from all parts of the world.
A sum of £300 will be made available to the fellow to be spent in the
British Library, on photographs, books, or any other charged service. This
award could usefully overlap with other forms of support.
Applications
Please submit a letter of application, indicating the period you intend to
be in London and outlining your proposed research project, together with a
full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to: Map Librarian,
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK. The closing date
for each annual award will be May 1st.
Helen Wallis
Dr Helen Wallis OBE (1924-95) was Map Librarian at the British Museum and
then British Library for 19 years (1967-86) but her reputation rests as much
on her prolific scholarly output and on the range of learned and
professional organisations in which she played so active a part.
Helen Wallis's historical interests were diverse, including geographical
globes; the mapping of voyages and colonial settlement, particularly in
North America and Australia; the supposedly 15th century Vinland Map; the
Jesuit mapping of China; and thematic mapping of the last century. Over and
above these specific topics, her work was characterised by two qualities.
Firstly, as a geographically-trained historian, it seemed natural to her to
reach across disciplinary boundaries, especially those that had
traditionally separated the studies of maps and texts. She showed
historians how they had neglected vital evidence of a non-geographic kind on
maps, and she taught map historians the value of related textual sources.
Secondly, she was a gifted communicator, whose enthusiasm for each of her
many and varied interests showed through so clearly in her lectures,
publications and broadcasts.
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Peter Barber MA, FSA, FRHistS
Map Librarian
Map Library
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
tel.: [44] 020 7412 7701
fax: [44] 020 7412 7780
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