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'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....
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Pieces of Franklin Expedition ships found - Publication date unknown
Now here's some really significant news. CBC tell us that a team led by Doug Stenton, the Director, Heritage at the Government of...
Franklin ship found - 9 September 2014
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...
Perceptive interview with David Woodman - 13 September 2014
Here is a very insightful commentary by David Woodman. He is vindicated to a huge extent by the recent find of the Franklin ship....
A 1st attempt to collate evidence from the Franklin Expedition ship with other evidence - 18 Sep 14
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...
Facebook - 25 November 2014
It's fascinating how prevalent social media has become in the academic and business worlds. Social media, it seems, is no longer just...
"That's it!" - 2 December 2014
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...
Sponsorship Opportunity - 8 December 2014
This is a request for funding. I am privy to a very exciting programme of scientific research into an important aspect of the Franklin...
"Stars over Ice" - worth following - 16 August 2012
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...
How much longer can the Search go on...? - 17 August 2012
In 1848 Captain Sir James Clark Ross sailed for the Arctic with the two ships HMS Investigator and HMS Enterprise. His mission was to...
Remembering the Franklin Expedition at Christmas - 24 December 2012
It’s months since I have posted thoughts on the Franklin Expedition and, strangely, it is Christmas which has triggered this latest...
Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Captain James Fitzjames, RN - 25 July 2013
This coming Saturday, 27th July, 2013, will mark the 200th birthday of Captain James, Fitzjames, RN, who was lost on the Franklin...
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'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...
Millar, Bowman and Battersby - 14 January 2014
Things have been a little quiet on the ‘Franklin front’ lately. Parks Canada has completed another year of valuable work, but without...
Ottawa life article - 17 January 2014
This presents a very clear explanation of the recent Millar, Bowman and Battersby paper. Original post: https://web.archive.org/web/20140...
The Peglar Pocket Book (2): The Words in the Roundel - 4 September 2011
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...
BBC Interview - 9 September 2011
Check out my interview by the BBC here. I much appreciate the BBC asking me for some views on the Franklin Expedition. Original post...
Newstalk interview - 13 September 2011
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...
There were survivors of the Franklin Expedition... - 5 October 2011
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...
POSSIBLE new Daguerreotype of Charles Hamilton Osmer - 31 October 2010
Partially it read: 'one of the scarce documents held in my family, is a Daguerreotype of an unknown relative, which I have been unable to...