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'Building Terror' - some great analysis here 📷HMS Terror as seen in the Arctic, 1836John Smith contacted Peter Carney and me recently....

Now here's some really significant news. CBC tell us that a team led by Doug Stenton, the Director, Heritage at the Government of...

And here is the news which the world has waited for since 1848 - the finding of one of Franklin's ships. Today’s announcement by Stephen...

Here is a very insightful commentary by David Woodman. He is vindicated to a huge extent by the recent find of the Franklin ship....

Like many people who have followed the Franklin saga, I am still reeling over the extent of Parks Canada’s achievement in finding one of...

It's fascinating how prevalent social media has become in the academic and business worlds.  Social media, it seems, is no longer just...

Yesterday Parks Canada’s Ryan Harris came to speak at the British Library about the finding of HMS Erebus, just off the coast of Adelaide...

This is a request for funding. I am privy to a very exciting programme of scientific research into an important aspect of the Franklin...

I haven't posted or a while. I am working pretty hard in business at the moment, and my primary research focus is piecing together the...

In 1848 Captain Sir James Clark Ross sailed for the Arctic with the two ships HMS Investigator and HMS Enterprise.  His mission was to...

It’s months since I have posted thoughts on the Franklin Expedition and, strangely, it is Christmas which has triggered this latest...

This coming Saturday, 27th July, 2013, will mark the 200th birthday of Captain James, Fitzjames, RN, who was lost on the Franklin...

📷HMS Terror as seen in the Arctic, 1836John Smith contacted Peter Carney and me recently. He's a ship modeller who is striving to create...

Things have been a little quiet on the ‘Franklin front’ lately.  Parks Canada has completed another year of valuable work, but without...

This presents a very clear explanation of the recent Millar, Bowman and Battersby paper. Original post: https://web.archive.org/web/20140...

On the other side of the sheet with the 'Oh Death, Whare is thy Sting' wording is the mysterious roundel. As I said in my previous...

Check out my interview by the BBC here. I much appreciate the BBC asking me for some views on the Franklin Expedition. Original post...

Today I was interviewed on the Moncrieff Show on Newstalk Radio in Ireland. I enjoyed doing it and I hope people feel I did justice to...

The one thing everyone knows about the Franklin Expedition is that nobody who went on it survived. I've said this many times myself. Yet...