Trinity College Library is contributing two distinct collections of material to Europeana Travel, an EU-funded educational initiative.
Starting on 1 May and running for two years, EuropeanaTravel will digitise over 1 million resources, including maps, manuscripts, photos, films, books and postcards on the themes of travel, tourism, trade routes and exploration.
trinity’s contribution will include a collection of travel journals dating from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, documenting the tours of individuals and families to Europe and sometimes further afield. They discuss art collections and attitudes to literature; transport; architecture; accommodation; cuisine; farming practice and religious attitudes. They represent an untapped resource for European and Irish history. By uniting them, digitally, with their counterparts in other European libraries, the social and cultural atlas of nineteenth century Europe will be greatly augmented.
The second collection is that of the papers of Major Richard William George Hingston (1887- 1966). Educated at University College Cork, Hingston was a surgeon and an author, a naturalist, a geographer and an adventurer. He served in France, Africa and the Middle East during World War I and in 1920 he published a book detailing his 1914 and 1916 travels in the Himalayan valley of Hazara, in what is now Pakistan, entitled ‘A Naturalist in Himalaya.’ He went on to publish two further books ‘A Naturalist in Hindustan’ (1923), and ‘A Naturalist in the Guiana forest’ (1932).
EuropeanaTravel will digitise rich collections from many well known national and research libraries in Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK.
Welcoming the launch of the new project, Dr. Jill Cousins, director of the Europeana office in the Royal Library in the Netherlands, said, ‘this resource will be of value to school teachers and students, to travellers and holidaymakers. Many people nowadays travel many miles in their lifetimes; most of our forefathers hardly left their village. EuropeanaTravel will allow us to document how this great change took place’.
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