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LLOYD-Jones, RALPH. "The men who sailed with Franklin." Polar Record 41, no. 4 (2005): 311–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247405004651.

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Using research methods well-known to family history investigators, it is possible to discover a remarkable amount of biographical information not merely on the officers, but also about the ratings who sailed — and died — with Sir John Franklin and Captain Francis Crozier on the 1845 Northwest Passage expedition. The findings from this research, mostly carried out at local and national archives in and around London, greatly enhances the understanding of that disaster, filling in gaps and answering questions raised by recent archaeological and forensic discoveries. This is the hitherto ignored s

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Gross, Tom, and Russell S. Taichman. "A comparative analysis of the Su-pung-er and Bayne testimonies related to the Franklin expedition." Polar Record 53, no. 6 (2017): 561–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247417000535.

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ABSTRACTDuring Charles Francis Hall's second Arctic expedition (1864–1869) to find survivors and/or documents of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition, two separate Inuit testimonies were recorded of a potential burial vault of a high-ranking officer. The first testimony was provided by a Boothia Inuk named Su-pung-er. The second testimony was documented by Captain Peter Bayne who, at the time, was employed by Hall. To date the vault has not been found. Recently, both the HMSErebusand HMSTerrorhave been located. The discovery of these vessels was made possible, in part, by Inui

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Barr, W. "Searching for Franklin where he was ordered to go: Captain Erasmus Ommanney's sledging campaign to Cape Walker and beyond, spring 1851." Polar Record 52, no. 4 (2016): 474–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247416000188.

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ABSTRACTSince the Admiralty's instructions to Captain Sir John Franklin for his attempt at a transit of the northwest passage in HMS Erebus and Terror in 1845 specified that he should proceed to Cape Walker at the northeastern tip of Russell Island, and head southwest from there to the waterways already explored along the mainland coast of North America, as far as ice conditions and any intervening land permitted, it was natural that the first search expedition to come within striking distance of Cape Walker, should make this one of the starting points of its detailed search. This was the squa

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Wamsley, Douglas, and William Barr. "Early photographers of the Arctic." Polar Record 32, no. 183 (1996): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400067528.

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ABSTRACTBy the early 1840s photographers were travelling widely to obtain photographic images of remote and interesting areas. Attempts at photography in the Arctic lagged slightly at the start, but these attempts were no less determined than elsewhere, despite the additional problems that the Arctic environment presented. The first Arctic expedition on which photographic equipment is believed to have been taken was Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of 1845–1848. However, the first Arctic expedition from which photographic images have survived was Sir Edward Belcher's expedition (1852–1

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Barr, William. "Discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships." Polar Record 51, no. 1 (2014): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000758.

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In the summer of 2014 a major search was mounted in the Canadian Arctic for H.M.S.ErebusandTerror, the ships of Sir John Franklin's expedition, the aim of which was to make a transit of the northwest passage. Beset in the ice to the northwest of King William Island in the summer of 1846, they were abandoned there by the 105 surviving members of their crews in the summer of 1848. The officers and men hoped to walk south to the mouth of the Back River, presumably to ascend that river in the hope of reaching the nearest Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake. None of t

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Lloyd-Jones, Ralph. "An evangelical Christian on Franklin's last expedition: Lieutenant John Irving of HMS Terror." Polar Record 33, no. 187 (1997): 327–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400025419.

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AbstractThis brief analysis of the life and personal outlook of one of the officers on Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition (1845–1848) begins a long-overdue process of reconstructing the background, attitudes, and motivation of those serving on Erebus and Terror. A great deal of recent research and speculation has considered the reasons behind the failures of Franklin's last expedition, but, although forensic science may prove useful in helping to discover what happened to Captain Crozier and his companions, it is equally important to understand those men's beliefs while they live

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Warren, P. "39. Thomas Hodgkin. 1798-1866. Health advocate for Manitoba." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (2007): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2799.

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CanMEDS 2005 includes health advocate. Pertinently Michel Foucault wrote “The first task of the doctor is therefore political…Man will be totally and definitively cured only if first liberated.” No one exemplified this more than Thomas Hodgkin widely known for his eponymous disease. What is less known is his unceasing work, as a Quaker, for aboriginal people around the world. He was secretary of the Aboriginal Protection Society. He had been interested in Canada since meeting John Norton, as a teenager. His involvement in the plight of Canada’s Indians may have cost him a staff position at Guy

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Cornell, David. "Sir John Stirling: Edward III's Scottish Captain." Northern History 45, no. 1 (2008): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174587008x256656.

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Syvitski, James P. M., and Martyn Beardsley. "Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 34, no. 3 (2002): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1552495.

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Baldock, Nick. "Deadly Winter - The Life of Sir John Franklin." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 88, no. 2 (2002): 95.2–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-88-95a.

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Baldock, Nick. "Deadly Winter - The Life of Sir John Franklin." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 88, no. 2 (2002): 95.2–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-88-95a.

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Ross, W. Gillies. "Clairvoyants and mediums search for Franklin." Polar Record 39, no. 1 (2003): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247402002723.

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The search for Sir John Franklin (1847–59) coincided with a growing interest in mesmerism and modern spiritualism in Britain. Several clairvoyants, claiming to ‘see’ Franklin's ships and crews in the Arctic, made statements about the status and location of the overdue expedition, and at least three mediums described communications with Franklin’s spirit. Although the Admiralty provided assistance to Dr Haddock, the mesmerist of Emma, the Bolton clairvoyant, they did not take any action on the basis of her statements, probably because the various accounts were contradictory and could not be ver

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Cruwys, Liz. "Henry Grinnell and the American Franklin searches." Polar Record 26, no. 158 (1990): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400011451.

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AbstractHenry Grinnell (1799–1874), a retired New York shipping magnate, maintained for 20 years a correspondence with Jane Franklin, wife of the British explorer Sir John Franklin whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic some time after 1845. Grinnell financed two United States expeditions and two searches by Charles Francis Hall to the Arctic to collect information on the fate of the Franklin expedition. Grinnell's letters, now held in the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute, form the basis of this article.

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White, Colin. "Book Review: Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin." International Journal of Maritime History 14, no. 2 (2002): 413–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140201400242.

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Russell, Penny. "A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope: John Montagu and Sir John Franklin." Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 2 (2013): 298–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2013.793259.

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McGoogan, Ken. "Defenders of Arctic orthodoxy turn their backs on Sir John Franklin." Polar Record 51, no. 2 (2014): 220–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000692.

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ABSTRACTWilliam Barr's article on John Rae presents quite the spectacle (Barr 2014). Barr paints a picture of eminent British historians, staunch defenders of Arctic orthodoxy, scurrying around to deny Rae his rightful recognition and stumbling into an abyss of self-contradiction. In their anxiety to keep Rae in his ‘proper place’ at Westminster Abbey, Barr and his friends have repudiated Sir John Franklin's claim to being the discoverer of the northwest passage – the claim they sallied forth to defend.

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Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders. "What Happened to John Franklin? Danish and British Perspectives from Francis McClintock’s Arctic Expedition, 1857–59." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 2 (2020): 300–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz066.

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Abstract By the autumn of 1847 it was clear that John Franklin and his crew were lost in the Arctic. The explorer John Rae famously reported that Franklin’s men had died, and that the last survivors had resorted to cannibalism. This was not the news Franklin’s widow Lady Jane Franklin wanted to hear, and Rae was subsequently condemned by many prominent British figures including Charles Dickens. Not accepting Rae’s testimony, Lady Franklin organized an expedition led by Captain Francis Leopold McClintock using the steam yacht Fox. One of the crewmembers on board the Fox was the Danish Arctic ex

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Lloyd-Jones, Ralph. "The Royal Marines on Franklin's last expedition." Polar Record 40, no. 4 (2004): 319–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247404003808.

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Using methods developed by family history researchers, it is possible to discover a remarkable amount about the individual lives of many men involved in Sir John Franklin's last fatal attempt to discover a Northwest Passage. This work constitutes what might be called ‘the social history’ of Franklin studies, relevant to that voyage in particular, and the early Victorian navy in general. Light is shed upon the lives of the Royal Marines aboard both HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, men who sailed and died with Franklin.

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Ross, W. Gillies. "The Admiralty and the Franklin search." Polar Record 40, no. 4 (2004): 289–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740400378x.

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The planning and direction of the British government's efforts to find and rescue Sir John Franklin were carried out in the Admiralty offices on Whitehall by the Board of Admiralty, which comprised six Lords Commissioners and two Secretaries, subject to the ultimate authority of Parliament. The Board worked closely with the Navy's Hydrographer, Francis Beaufort, who was probably the single most influential person involved in the planning. He and the Board utilized advice from various officers who had been on Arctic expeditions, and consulted many organizations and individuals in Britain and ab

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Ross, W. Gillies. "False leads in the Franklin search." Polar Record 39, no. 2 (2003): 131–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247402002838.

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The strenuous and costly measures undertaken by the British Admiralty and others to find the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin during the period 1847–59 were hindered by malicious deceptions, misleading rumours, corrupted translations, unfortunate misunderstandings, and premature conclusions. The false leads included fake messages from Franklin, invented reports of his safety or death in various places, clairvoyant statements that placed him in several widely separated locations, discoveries of objects supposedly associated with his expedition, and distorted reports from Indians and Eski

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Jolly, Barry. "Cornwallis and Hampshire." Hampshire Studies 74, no. 1 (2019): 137–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24202/hs2019006.

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Admiral the Hon. Sir William Cornwallis is the most distinguished person to have lived in Milford (now Milford-on-Sea), Hampshire. This article traces his career before he settled in Milford in 1800 at the age of 56, reviews his relationship with Captain John Whitby and his widow, and examines the impact that he and the beneficiaries of his estate had on that village over the ensuing century.

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Barr, William, Nadine Forestier-Blazart, and Jean-Claude Forestier-Blazart. "‘The last duty of an officer’: Lieutenant de vaisseau Joseph-René Bellot, 1826–1853, in the Franklin Search." Polar Record 50, no. 1 (2013): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247412000630.

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ABSTRACTLieutenant de vaisseau Joseph René Bellot, (1826–1853) participated, as second-in command, in Lady Franklin's private expedition in search of her missing husband on board Prince Albert, under the command of Captain William Kennedy in 1851–1852. Having wintered at Batty Bay on the east coast of Somerset Island, Kennedy and Bellot sledged south in the spring of 1852, to Bellot Strait, which they discovered. Having passed through the strait, they crossed Peel Sound, and continued west across Prince of Wales Island to Ommanney Bay, then back across Prince of Wales Island, north to Cape Wal

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Kennedy, Victor. "An Exploration of Canadian Identity in Recent Literary Narratives of the Franklin Expeditions." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 3, no. 1-2 (2006): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.3.1-2.193-200.

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Sir John Franklin’s three expeditions to the high Arctic in 1819, 1825, and 1845 have become the stuff of Canadian legend, enshrined in history books, songs, short stories, novels, and web sites. Franklin set out in 1845 to discover the Northwest Passage with the most advanced technology the British Empire could muster, and disappeared forever. Many rescue explorations found only scant evidence of the Expedition, and the mystery was finally solved only recently. This paper will explore four recent fictional works on Franklin’s expeditions, Stan Rogers’ song “Northwest Passage”, Margaret Atwood

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Cooke, A. "Book reviews." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 57, no. 2 (2003): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2003.0209.

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Twelve book reviews in the May 2003 issue of Notes and Records : Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin––the dark lady of DNA . Lisa Jardine, On a grander scale: the outstanding career of Sir Christopher Wren . Physicists of Ireland , edited by Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker. The Cambridge Companion to Newton , edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith. David Boyd Haycock, William Stukeley: science, religion and archaeology in eighteenth-century England . Martyn Beardsley, Deadly winter: the life of Sir John Franklin . J. Browne, Charles Darwin: the power of place . M. Chisholm, Such silver

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Bremner, G. A. "Colonial careerists in Central Africa, 1888–1913: a survey of monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral." Sculpture Journal 33, no. 2 (2024): 265–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sj.2024.33.2.11.

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This article considers a number of monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral dedicated to soldiers and administrators who served in various parts of Central Africa during the British colonial period, namely Sir Bartle Frere (1815–84), Lord Robert Cornelis Napier (1810–90), Major Arthur Blyford Thruston (1865–97), Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (1843–1910) and Captain Sir John Hawley Glover (1829–85). It discusses the careers of these colonial agents in context, relating this, where appropriate, to the symbolic and material conditions of the monuments themselves. It considers the artists involved,

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Barr, William. "Misinterpretation and obfuscation." Polar Record 51, no. 2 (2014): 221–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000746.

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The thrust of my note (Barr 2014), to which Ken McGoogan was responding (McGoogan 2014), was that in discovering Rae Strait in the spring of 1854 John Rae did not discover the final link in the northwest passage, since a substantial section of that particular variant of the passage some 240 km in length (namely Franklin Strait and Larsen Sound) lying further north, had not yet been discovered. McGoogan has wrongly concluded that I must therefore support the notion that Sir John Franklin discovered the passage. This is an unwarranted assumption. I do not subscribe to this belief; in this, at le

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Stone, Ian R. "The Franklin search in Parliament." Polar Record 32, no. 182 (1996): 209–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400025109.

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ABSTRACTThe record of Parliamentary proceedings relating to the Franklin search covers the period 1848–1863. The main subject of discussion was the need for the government to mount search expeditions, while topics such as rewards for successful expeditions and the question of the provision of monuments to Sir John Franklin also occupied Parliamentary time. Interest in the matter among Members of Parliament crossed party boundaries. Most of the activity was in the House of Commons rather than in the House of Lords, because the former House had control of expenditure. A further reason was that t

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Ross, W. Gillies. "The Arctic Council of 1851: fact or fancy?" Polar Record 40, no. 2 (2004): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247403003267.

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The Arctic Council has often been described as a formal advisory body established by the Admiralty to help direct the search for Sir John Franklin (1847–59), but no such organization existed. The source of the erroneous and misleading notion appears to be a well-known composite portrait painted by Stephen Pearce in 1851. Frequent repetition in publications on Arctic history has perpetuated the error, with imaginative embellishments.

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Høvik, Ingeborg. "Heroism and Imperialism in the Arctic: Edwin Landseer’s Man Proposes – God Disposes." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (2008): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1232.

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Edwin Landseer contributed the painting Man Proposes - God Disposes (Royal Holloway College, Egham), showing two polar bears amongst the remnants of a failed Arctic expedition, to the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of 1864. As contemporary nineteenth-century reviews of this exhibition show, the British public commonly associated Landseer's painting with the lost Arctic expedition of sir John Franklin, who had set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. Despite Landseer's gloomy representation of a present-day human disaster and, in effect, of British exploration in the Arctic, the painti

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Kondla, Norbert G., Harry Pavulaan, and David M. Wright. "Type locality of Polyommatus lucia (W. Kirby, 1837) (Lycaenidae: Polyomatinae) with an inspection of the species' phenotypic expression." Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey 9, no. 8 (2021): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5637399.

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The type locality of <em>Polyommatus lucia </em>was not clearly defined by W. Kirby (1837) and has been improperly interpreted as Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada by several authors.  The present paper examines the circumstances surrounding the collection of the specimen described and illustrated by William Kirby, and determines the type locality is Fort Carlton Provincial Park, Saskatchewan.

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Bertelsen, Lance. "Patronage and the Pariah of Captain Cook's Third Voyage: Captain John Williamson, Sir William Jones and the Duchess of Devonshire." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38, no. 1 (2014): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12136.

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Ross, W. Gillies. "The Gloucester balloon: a communication from Franklin?" Polar Record 38, no. 204 (2002): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400017265.

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AbstractOn 5 October 1851 a balloon was found near Gloucester, England, bearing a message from one of Sir John Franklin's two ships, last seen by Europeans six years before. The Admiralty responded swiftly and investigated the circumstances for several days before announcing that the message was a fake. During their inquiries no news appeared in the press. When newspapers at last published the story, most of them called the episode a hoax, although their accounts differed from each other and from the facts in many details. The Admiralty's brief announcement late in the day on 11 October gave t

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Reinhartz, Dennis, and Judy Reinhartz. "History, Geography, and Maps." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 16, no. 2 (1991): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.16.2.84-90.

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As Geography without History seemeth as carkasse without motion, so History without Geography wandereth as vagrant without certain habitation. -attributed to Captain John Smith History is geography over time. -Andrei Lvovich Botvinnik in A WALK IN THE WOODS (1988) by Lee Blessing History ... is exceedingly difficult to follow without maps ... and, it may be whispered, geography untouched by the human element is dull to an extraordinary degree, duller even than mapless history, and that, the Dodo said, was the driest thing that it knew. -Sir Charles Arden-Close

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Murphy, Martin. "A Jacobite Antiquary in Grub Street: Captain John Stevens (c.1662–1726)." Recusant History 24, no. 4 (1999): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034193200002636.

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Some of the multifarious literary activities of Captain John Stevens have received attention from specialists. His journal of the Irish wars of 1688–91, not published until 1912, is now generally recognised as being one of the most important primary sources for the campaign. His place in the history of travel writing, as the translator into English of classical works in Spanish and Portuguese on the history, geography and ethnology of the Iberian world, has been established by Dr. Colin Steele. His major contribution to English monastic history, as the translator and continuator of Sir Thomas

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Cruwys, Liz. "Edwin Jesse De Haven: the first US Arctic explorer." Polar Record 28, no. 166 (1992): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400020660.

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ABSTRACTEdwin Jesse De Haven (1816–1865) led the first Grinnell expedition in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850–1851. Since it was the ship's charismatic surgeon, Elisha Kent Kane, who wrote the popular account of the voyage, De Haven's achievements have generally been overlooked. De Haven joined the United States Navy when he was 13 and was master on the ill-fated Peacock during the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) to the Antarctic under Charles Wilkes. He saw action in the Mexican War in 1848, and was serving under Matthew Fontaine Maury at the Naval

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ROSE, EDWARD P. F. "BRITISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MALTA, PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY FOUNDATIONS." Earth Sciences History 40, no. 2 (2021): 503–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-40.2.503.

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Malta, an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, was fortified as a base for the Knights Hospitaller 1530–1798 and to provide major harbours for the British Royal Navy after 1813. Men with British military associations (all subsequently to attain some distinction in public and/or academic life) were amongst the many pioneers of Maltese geology who established the essence of its outcrop stratigraphy and structure: a circa 300-metre-thick sequence of near-horizontal mid-Cenozoic fossiliferous limestones punctuated by a ‘blue clay/marl’, cut by a series of major faults and penetrated by several

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Cavell, Janice. "Going native in the north: reconsidering British attitudes during the Franklin search, 1848–1859." Polar Record 45, no. 1 (2009): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247408007511.

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ABSTRACTThis article critically examines the assumption that the men of Sir John Franklin's last Arctic expedition died because, influenced by the characteristic British cultural prejudices of their time, they refused to employ Inuit survival skills. Since no detailed records from this expedition have ever been found, there is no direct evidence about the attitudes held or actions taken by its members. The article therefore draws on another source: the very extensive British periodical and newspaper coverage of the Franklin search. The writers who contributed to this literature knew even less

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Fitzgerald, Syvia. "Images of Africa at Kew Gardens." African Research & Documentation 68 (1995): 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021671.

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Africa had long been of interest in Europe - as we see in the herbals of Charles de l'Escluse (1601), & Mathias de l'Obel (1650). Kew's interest in Africa stems from the earliest days of the Gardens, which were set up in 1759 for Princess Augusta under the supervision of William Aiton, advised by Lord Bute & Sir John Hill. Hill's Hortus Kewensis, published in 1768 lists many trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants from Africa, describes Fritillaria longifolia as new from the Cape of Good Hope and gives a coloured plate of it.Princess Augusta died in 1772, and her Gardens passed to King Geo

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Fitzgerald, Syvia. "Images of Africa at Kew Gardens." African Research & Documentation 68 (1995): 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021671.

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Africa had long been of interest in Europe - as we see in the herbals of Charles de l'Escluse (1601), & Mathias de l'Obel (1650). Kew's interest in Africa stems from the earliest days of the Gardens, which were set up in 1759 for Princess Augusta under the supervision of William Aiton, advised by Lord Bute & Sir John Hill. Hill's Hortus Kewensis, published in 1768 lists many trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants from Africa, describes Fritillaria longifolia as new from the Cape of Good Hope and gives a coloured plate of it.Princess Augusta died in 1772, and her Gardens passed to King Geo

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INGRAM, ALLAN. "A Northern Blast: Sir John Pringle — Medicine, Mentoring … and Manslaughter?" Shandean 33, no. 1 (2022): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/shandean.2022.33.11.

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The Scottish physician Sir John Pringle (1707–1782) was known as the father of modern military medicine. This was due to his 1752 book, Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and Garrison, which arose out of his experience as physician-general to the forces in Flanders during the 1740s, where he made significant advances to medical practice. After moving to London, he had also published, in 1750, an influential work on fevers in hospitals and in prisons. Pringle was friends with several significant people beyond the medical world, including Benjamin Franklin and the Scottish Law Lord

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Savours, Ann M. "The diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Piers, HMS Investigator, 1850–54." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 76, no. 1 (1990): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-76-33.

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SummaryFrom the 16th to the mid 19th century, many voyages were made from England to discover a North West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. The Investigator was one of some 40 vessels that searched for the lost North West Passage expedition of 1845–48 under the command of Sir John Franklin in HM Ships Erebus and Terror, which became beset among what are now known as the Canadian Arctic Islands. The “Investigators” found no trace of Franklin, but were the first to traverse the North West Passage, although their ship had to be abandoned in Mercy Bay on Banks Island after two

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Lewis-Jones, Huw W. G. "‘Heroism displayed’: revisiting the Franklin Gallery at the Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891." Polar Record 41, no. 3 (2005): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247405004432.

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The Royal Naval Exhibition (RNE) of 1891 offers an important entry point for the study of naval mythmaking. Scrutinising one part of the RNE showcase, ‘The Franklin Gallery,’ highlights the imaginative potential of the polar regions as a resource for imperial visions. This paper provides a review of the RNE and, more closely, considers the ideology of polar exploration in the context of political debate and naval reforms. The utility of images of the Arctic presented at the RNE is discussed, in particular, its role in displaying the ‘heroic martyrdom’ of Sir John Franklin (1786–1847). The pape

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Urwin, Gregory J. W. "‘To bring the American Army under strict Discipline’: British Army Foraging Policy in the South, 1780–81." War in History 26, no. 1 (2017): 4–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344517707976.

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Many British soldiers charged with suppressing the American Revolution embarked on their mission animated by anger. They expressed their fury most frequently through indiscriminate looting. Marauding undermined the discipline of the king’s troops and their commanders’ strategy by making enemies out of American moderates who had not yet rebelled, alienating Loyalists, and renewing Rebel resolve to continue fighting. In either 1778 or 1779, General Sir Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-chief in North America, commissioned two aides-de-camp, Major Patrick Ferguson and Captain John André, to

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Mack, Robert L. "Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Spiritual Sentimentalism, and the Lost Polar Expedition of Sir John Franklin." English Language Notes 44, no. 1 (2006): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-44.1.43.

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Boucher, Ellen. "Arctic Mysteries and Imperial Ambitions: The Hunt for Sir John Franklin and the Victorian Culture of Survival." Journal of Modern History 90, no. 1 (2018): 40–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/695883.

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Fraser, K. C. "Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin2002317Martyn Beardsley. Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin. London: Chatham Publishing 2002. xvi + 272pp., ISBN: ISBN 1 86176 187 2 £20.00." Reference Reviews 16, no. 6 (2002): 42–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr.2002.16.6.42.317.

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Young, Keith. "The Shumards in Texas." Earth Sciences History 13, no. 2 (1994): 143–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.13.2.3202402042v0qv31.

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Benjamin Franklin Shumard was appointed State Geologist of Texas in 1858. His brother, George Getz Shumard, served as his Assistant State Geologist; both were experienced field geologists. Benjamin Shumard had served in federally sponsored surveys of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa conducted by Dale David Owen, in Oregon and Washington by John Evans, and in the Missouri Geological Survey. George Shumard had accompanied Captain Randolph B. Marcy into Texas on two of his federally sponsored expeditions of exploration (the Pacific Railroad Survey along the 32nd parallel) to drill wells exploring f

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Millar, Keith, Adrian W. Bowman, and William Battersby. "A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845–1848." Polar Record 51, no. 3 (2014): 224–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000867.

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ABSTRACTThe ‘Franklin expedition’ of 1845 set out to establish a ‘northwest passage’ between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but ended with the deaths of all 129 crewmen in the grimmest of circumstances. The hypothesis that lead poisoning may have contributed to the disaster is examined by re-analysis of the bone-lead content of seven skeletons in order to model statistically the likely variation in lead burden across the whole crew. Comparison of the estimated lead burdens with present-day data that associates lead with cognitive and physical morbidity suggests that a proportion of the crew m

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Sztąberek, Maciej. "Jak wywołać grozę? Analiza porównawcza powieści i serialu „Terror”." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 27 (December 30, 2021): 395–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.27.25.

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The polar expedition commanded by Sir John Franklin, which disappeared in the Arctic archipelago between 1845 and 1847, is still one of the most mysterious disasters in the history of the Royal Navy and the British Empire. Scientists are still not sure what happened to the 129 sailors. The events have become a basis for a horror story Terror written by Dan Simmons and adapted as a TV series by Ridley Scott. Both of them are interesting cases of genre mixtures. But the clue of the article is to analyze the tools both the book and the TV series use to induce fear among the audience. Firstly, the

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Monaghan, N. T. "Leopold McClintock - 'Arctic Fox' and his natural science collections." Geological Curator 9, no. 2 (2009): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc211.

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Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock from Dundalk, Co. Louth gained fame and rank through his exploits in the Royal Navy during expeditions inside the Arctic Circle in Northern Canada in search of the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. During voyages in the 1840s and 1850s McClintock perfected sledging techniques that allowed for long trips, far from the safety of the ship. He collected geological 'waistcoat pocket' sized specimens and helped to produce one of the first bedrock maps of the area around the Northwest Passage. McClintock's fossils were described by Samuel Haughton and Osw

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