VISIONS OF THE NORTH

A guest post by Mary Williamson, co-editor of  May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth Roderic Fenwick-Owen (1921-2011) or “Uncle Roddy” as I knew...

Of all the many portraits of Franklin's men that emerge from our volume of letters, that of Harry Goodsir, the expedition's naturali...

Among James Fitzjames's many gifts and proclivities, a weakness for what in Britain are called "puns," and in America "ba...

(National Library of Australia) In the process of writing the notes for our volume of Franklin expedition letters, we learned a lot of seemi...

At last it can be told: after more than five years of work collecting, transcribing, and annotating -- not to mention permission-getting, pr...

Levinge's grave on Ascension Along with my colleagues Peter Carney, Gina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, I've found that the work on ...

After a considerable amount of diligent searching over several weeks, I'm very happy to be able to say that John Gregory's baptismal...

While we may never know exactly which of the several candidates for John Gregory's birth is the right one, there's a good deal more ...

As the news spreads around the world that John Gregory of HMS Erebus has become the first member of the Franklin expedition whose remains h...

The news  came this week that one of the skulls found at the site of the Schwatka reburial at Erebus Bay on King William Island has been ...

I'd heard about it for years, how John Torrington -- the unfortunate leading stoker on HMS "Erebus" -- had found himself in th...