Angela Byrne Author & Editor

About the Editor: Angela Byrne is Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Ulster University, and has formerly held positions at the University of Greenwich, National University of Ireland Maynooth, University of Toronto, and the Royal Irish Academy. Her research interests include the history of British and Irish travel and exploration, and women in the sciences. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (New York: Palgrave, 2013) and is co-editor (with Sebastian Sobecki) of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations of the English Nation(1598–1600), vol. II (Oxford University Press, in preparation). She is currently preparing a monograph on Irish–Russian contacts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.