I watched The Terror in April 2020 and the rest was history.
Specific areas of interest:
- The Franklin Expedition (obviously)
- Biographical details of officers & men, incl. family history and society connections
- Letters, diaries, primary sources in the archive
- Women of polar exploration
- Sir Clements Markham, the material consequences of his polar obsession, & his role as connective tissue between the Victorians and the Heroic Age
- Popular reception of polar narratives in the 19th century, in the press and fictional media
- Kane, Hall, Greeley, the Fox Sisters, and the American polar story
Elsewhere online:
- Organized & presented at Terror Camp
- Assisted with Illuminator’s guide to Greenwich’s Polar Worlds
- Contributed to Finger-Post’s research on the missing Erebus clerk
- Helped with research on Crozier’s birth date for Haw Lantern