battersbyDec 12, 20181 min'Building Terror' - some great analysis here - 11 September 2013'Building Terror' - some great analysis here 📷HMS Terror as seen in the Arctic, 1836John Smith contacted Peter Carney and me recently....
battersbyNov 23, 20183 minPieces of Franklin Expedition ships found - Publication date unknownNow here's some really significant news. CBC tell us that a team led by Doug Stenton, the Director, Heritage at the Government of...
battersbyNov 23, 20184 minFranklin ship found - 9 September 2014And 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...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minPerceptive interview with David Woodman - 13 September 2014Here is a very insightful commentary by David Woodman. He is vindicated to a huge extent by the recent find of the Franklin ship....
battersbyNov 23, 20187 minA 1st attempt to collate evidence from the Franklin Expedition ship with other evidence - 18 Sep 14Like many people who have followed the Franklin saga, I am still reeling over the extent of Parks Canada’s achievement in finding one of...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minFacebook - 25 November 2014It's fascinating how prevalent social media has become in the academic and business worlds. Social media, it seems, is no longer just...
battersbyNov 23, 20186 min"That's it!" - 2 December 2014Yesterday Parks Canada’s Ryan Harris came to speak at the British Library about the finding of HMS Erebus, just off the coast of Adelaide...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minSponsorship Opportunity - 8 December 2014This is a request for funding. I am privy to a very exciting programme of scientific research into an important aspect of the Franklin...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 min"Stars over Ice" - worth following - 16 August 2012I 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...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minHow much longer can the Search go on...? - 17 August 2012In 1848 Captain Sir James Clark Ross sailed for the Arctic with the two ships HMS Investigator and HMS Enterprise. His mission was to...
battersbyNov 23, 20188 minRemembering the Franklin Expedition at Christmas - 24 December 2012It’s months since I have posted thoughts on the Franklin Expedition and, strangely, it is Christmas which has triggered this latest...
battersbyNov 23, 20182 minCommemorating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Captain James Fitzjames, RN - 25 July 2013This coming Saturday, 27th July, 2013, will mark the 200th birthday of Captain James, Fitzjames, RN, who was lost on the Franklin...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 min'Building Terror' - some great analysis here - 11 September 2013📷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...
battersbyNov 23, 20186 minMillar, Bowman and Battersby - 14 January 2014Things have been a little quiet on the ‘Franklin front’ lately. Parks Canada has completed another year of valuable work, but without...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minOttawa life article - 17 January 2014This presents a very clear explanation of the recent Millar, Bowman and Battersby paper. Original post: https://web.archive.org/web/20140...
battersbyNov 23, 20185 minThe Peglar Pocket Book (2): The Words in the Roundel - 4 September 2011On 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...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minBBC Interview - 9 September 2011Check out my interview by the BBC here. I much appreciate the BBC asking me for some views on the Franklin Expedition. Original post...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minNewstalk interview - 13 September 2011Today 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...
battersbyNov 23, 20182 minThere were survivors of the Franklin Expedition... - 5 October 2011The one thing everyone knows about the Franklin Expedition is that nobody who went on it survived. I've said this many times myself. Yet...
battersbyNov 23, 20181 minPOSSIBLE new Daguerreotype of Charles Hamilton Osmer - 31 October 2010Partially it read: 'one of the scarce documents held in my family, is a Daguerreotype of an unknown relative, which I have been unable to...
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