Three talks by W. G. Hoskins
Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford
1-The Impulse to Explore
In these talks Dr. Hoskins traces the changing attitudes of Englishmen to their environment from the evidence of topographical literature. First, he speaks of the time when ' England was not conceived of as a country deserving of, or awaiting, discovery, exploration, and mapping,' and of the sudden impulse to explore which arose in the sixteenth century and endured for 300 years.