Professor Felix Driver FBA

Historical geography of British empire & exploration, eighteenth to twentieth centuries; histories of collecting, visual culture & geographical knowledge

Elected 2011

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2011
Sections: Culture, Media and Performance, Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/felix-driver(a89b94b9-c7fa-4b97-bead-78afc46b9e07).html

Felix Driver is an historical geographer committed to scholarship and public engagement in the arts and humanities, including collaborations with museums and creative practitioners. He has undertaken research projects on the cultural history of collections and collecting, the visual culture of exploration, geography and empire, and imperial cities. He has supervised collaborative research projects with the British Library, the Science Museum, the V&A, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Geographical Society. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the Mobile Museums project in collaboration with Kew Gardens.

Current post

Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

Publications

Face to face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit collections and their uses

Felix Driveredited by Arthur MacGregor - Published in 2018 by Brill

in Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, 441-469

Michael Heathorn Huxley (1899-1979)

Felix Driver - Published in 2015 by Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Intermediaries and the archive of exploration

Felix Driveredited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam - Published in 2015 by ANU Press

Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on Exploration Archives

The mobile museum: collecting and circulating Indian textiles in Victorian Britain

Felix Driver - Published in 2010 by Indiana University Press

Victorian Studies 52, no. 3, 353-385

Hidden Histories of Exploration: Researching Geographical Collections

Felix DriverLowri Jones - Published in 2009 by Royal Holloway, University of London

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire 2005

Edited by Felix DriverLuciana Martins - Published in 2005 by The University of Chicago Press

Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire

Felix Driver - Published in 2001 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity

Felix DriverDavid Gilbert - Published in 1999 by Manchester University Press

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