The latest volume of the Society’s Camden series makes available The Papers of Admiral George Grey. Edited by Michael Taylor, this new volume brings together the memoir, journal, and correspondence of the naval officer George Grey (1809-1891), son of the Whig prime minister Earl Grey.
The volume documents the Grey family’s experience of the Whig ministry of 1830–1834, and George Grey’s own naval career which took him from the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence, to a decisive survey of the Falkland Islands, and then to the capital cities of South America during their pivotal early decades of independence.
In doing so, Michael’s volume sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century. To accompany publication, Michael has also written on George Grey and his work to collect the papers for the Society’s blog.
The full text of The Papers of Admiral George Grey is now available Open Access via Cambridge University Press, following a subvention by the Royal Historical Society.
The Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British history, including the British empire and Britons’ influence overseas.
The Series makes important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by a specialist historian who provides an expert introduction and commentary. The complete Camden Series now comprises over 380 volumes of primary source material, published by Cambridge University Press, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain.
In 2025, the Society will publish three new Camden volumes.
Forthcoming titles are: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler, which will appear in August 2025 and A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung (November).
