VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Those who know the story of the infamous " Peglar Papers " -- those enigmatic documents discovered in a leather wallet in the c...

Eternal glory never lasted such a short time as it did on the 'lonely cairn of stones' erected by Charles Francis Hall on King ...

Photo courtesy Hailey Aklah Nalungiaq Okpik We're all aware of the fantastic new video from below the decks of HMS Terror -- but th...

Fragments enhanced by Logan Zachary A guest post by Regina Koellner When my fellow researcher and member of the "Remembering the...

A guest post by Alison Freebairn It was a ridiculous dream. “I’m going to the National Archives in London to look for some papers tha...

Sunset in Ulukhaktok I'm writing this from the beautiful hamlet of Ulukhaktok N.W.T., the final stop on this year's voyage thro...

After what has seemed, to the waiters, an excruciating interval -- but in fact only about three years -- the underwater archaeology team ...

Image courtesy London Science Museum , cc-by-SA 4.0 It's that time of year again. And although, unlike last year, there aren't ...

Photo courtesy of and © 2019 Derbyshire Record Office Every so often, a discovery is made in the archives that completely upturns o...

Graves at Beechey; photo by Allen Young (courtesy of Doug Wamsley) In the quest to understand the history of the graves of Franklin...

We often hear about the first discovery of the graves of Franklin's men at Beechey Island -- but not, before now, have we had a vivid...