Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
The College’s annual Thomas Harriot Lecture was inaugurated in 1990. Revised versions of the lectures delivered since then have been published in three volumes, edited by Robert Fox: Thomas Harriot. An Elizabethan man of science (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); Thomas Harriot. Mathematics, exploration, and natural philosophy in early modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012); and Thomas Harriot. Science and discovery in the English Renaissance (London: Routledge, 2023).
Thomas Harriot, mathematician and natural philosopher, was born in Oxfordshire. He matriculated at Oxford in 1577 as a member of St Mary Hall (which united with Oriel College in 1902) and was awarded a BA degree at Easter 1580.
Harriot’s skills in astronomical navigation led to his employment by Sir Walter Raleigh (another member of Oriel) to teach Raleigh and prepare his sea captains for the voyage that left in 1585 to establish a settlement in America. After spending almost a year at Roanoke, near the coast of today’s North Carolina, Harriot wrote A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia, the first account of America to be published in English (1588).
This series features in the following public collections:
