The first two volumes of the South Polar Times, Antarctica’s first newspaper, were produced during the austral winters of 1902 and 1903 on the National Antarctic Expedition, on board the Discovery. It was in keeping with a long tradition of polar publication going back to the North Georgia Gazette & Winter Chronicle, a handwritten newspaper […]
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“I have been dreaming of you” — Antarctic Lovebirds Redux
(If you haven’t read my first blog post about these guys, please start there!!!!) At the end of my first round of research about Pennell and Atkinson, I had a LOT of questions. The two big ones: Why hadn’t I heard about their relationship before? and did Atkinson feel the same way about Pennell? The […]
The Donors of the Fox
This summer, I was the recipient of the generous Digital Humanities Fellowship from NYU. My proposed project was a broad-reaching initiative called “Visualizing the Victorian Polar Network,” but once the fellowship began I quickly realized I had to narrow my view, and ended up settling on a revised version of my project where I would […]
Sir Clements Markham’s Romance – Part 2
Last time, on Crazy Clem’s Romance: introduction, sources, background. Now we get to the expedition! JK, they’re still in London. Chapter II, entitled “Fitting out,” begins with the usual frenzy of appointing and supplying. Markham explains why Sir John wanted to go on the expedition so badly: to make up for his humiliation in Van […]