“Vixens” perhaps?
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2 Mar. 1847 - JCR wrote that no one acquainted with the navigation of the region would expect Franklin to pass through Bering Strait without at least 2 overwinters, the expedition was provisioned on full allowance for 3 years, stretchable to 4 & he t/fore would not send after them until Spring 1848
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And yet by 3 August 1847, James Ross had secured the agreement of Edward Bird and Dr John Robertson to accompany him on a search expedition under his command. So many friendships riven by the loss of the Expedition…
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Historian of 19thC Ireland; Director of Irish Studies, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
The incredible life of Lord Cochrane | Age of Sail | Napoleonic Wars | Tallships | Seamanship
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Publishing British naval documents and history since 1893. We'll post all the latest discoveries here...
Retired rare books librarian, formerly Institute of Naval Medicine civvy, thwarted medievalist, enthusiast of history, cooking, words and singing, writer, occasional poet, permanently on wheels; married to retired PO (Comms) RNR, signal engineer, bass.
We are a leading Irish family history research organisation and book publisher.
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C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
I write about the Franklin Expedition and other parts of history heavy on the “doomed” and “ill-fated” side of things. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries.
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Franklin Expedition news+research. Erebus & Terror dive season is Aug/Sept. I write a monthly-ish newsletter for this stuff.
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Maritime museum programs and collections manager; artist; beekeeper; historian of memory, masculinity and the Royal Navy; researching the polar career of James Clark Ross.
The Ross and Crozier Antarctic Expedition of 1839-43 in real(ish) time.
Anthropologist and historian. Polar exploration: Erebus, Terror, Scott, Shackleton. Senior Curator National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Trustee UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Sing London Oriana. Views my own.
Husband, father, grandfather. Ex-Navy. Retired professional mariner - deep sea, submarines, ferries. Author of non-fiction books on Arctic exploration history. Sometime expedition member to Arctic. Old fart.
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Writer of gothic, ghostly tales. Polar history buff and devotee of Eleanor Anne Porden. Find out more at www.sampopewriter.com and www.eleanorporden.com
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Librarian in Vienna, Austria, interested in John and Jane Franklin and the lives they touched, Ireland, Irish theatre, and Anglophone literatures and cultures. Hoping to continue to grow my inner historian and my office plants.
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