Publications

PUBLICATIONS BY ANN SAVOURS (DR. SHIRLEY) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
* NB – Only two of numerous book reviews are listed

  1. Easter in Lapland. University Women’s Review. (London, British Federation of University Women), No. 48, 1958, p. 12 – 13
  2. The manuscript collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Polar Record. (Cambridge), Vol. 9, No. 61, 1959, p. 331 -35.
  3. The manuscript collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute. (London, British Records Association), Vol. 4, No. 22, 1959, p. 102 – 08.
  4. An arctic whaling journal of 1791. Polar Record. 9, No. 63,1959, p. 534 – 46.
  5. Journal of a whaling voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1894. Polar Record. Vol. 10, No. 65, 1960, p. 126 – 37. (Reprinted in North (Ottawa), Vol. 8, No. 1,1961, p. 1 – 10.
  6. Two unpublished accounts of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1839 – 43. Polar Record. Vol. 10, No. 69, 1961, p. 587 – 604
  7. The wreck of the BETSEY AND SOPHIA on iles Kerguelen, 1831. Geographical Journal. 127, Part 3, 1961, p. 317 – 21. (Abridged translation published in TAAF (Paris), No. 28 1964, p. 77-79).
  8. Sir James Clark Ross, 1800 – 1862. Geographical Journal. Vol. 128, Part 3, 1962, p. 325 – 27.
  1. Biographical note on James Weddell, R.N. (1787 – 1834). Polar Record. Vol. 11, No. 71, 1962, p. 155-57.
  2. Early Eskimo visitors to Britain. Geographical Magazine. 36, No. 6, 1963, p. 336 – 43. [Contains previously unpublished material, despite publication in a semi-popular journal.]
  3. Catalogue of original manuscripts of polar interest in Australia and New Zealand, compiled 1960 – 61. Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1963. Mimeographed, 70pp.
  4. Who was John Biscoe? Geographical Magazine. Vol. 36, No. 9, 1964, p. 499 – 505. [Contains previously unpublished material, despite publication in a semi-popular journal.]
  5. The discovery of Macquarie Island, 1810. Polar Record. 12, No. 78, 1964, p. 312 – 12.
  6. 450 mile voyage with tablecloth sails. The Times. 5th February 1963. [Life of B. Leigh Smith, late nineteenth century yachtsman and explorer.]
  7. John Biscoe. In: Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press), Vol. 1, 1966.

16. The “DISCOVERY” diaries of Edward Adrian Wilson. 1901 – 04. edited from the original manuscript in the Scott Polar Research Institute bv Ann Savours. London, Blandford Press, 1966; New York 1967. 416 pages. Reprinted, slightly amended, 1975.

  1. A note on the Abbots Bromley horn dance. Arv: journal of Scandinavian Folklore. 22, 1966 (pub. 1967), p. 156-72.
  2. The Wilson diaries. Geographical Magazine. 39, No. 5, 1966, p. 364 – 72.
  3. More light on John Biscoe (1794 – 1843). Geographical Journal. Vol. 136, Part 1,1970, p. 165.
  4. Russian maritime museums. Mariner’s Mirror (London, Society for Nautical Research), Vol. 60, No. 2,1974, p. 165-68.
  1. Scott’s last voyage: through the Antarctic camera of Herbert Ponting. Edited bv Ann Savours. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1974. 160p. American edition by Praeger, New York, 1975. Dutch edition, 1975.
  2. The preservation of the companionway cover of Conrad’s OTAGO. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 62, No. 3,1976, p. 252
  3. Sir George Strong Nares (1831 – 1915), by Margaret Deacon and Ann Savours. Polar Record. 18, No. 113, 1976, p. 127-41. (Reprinted with G. Hattersley-Smith, The British Arctic Expedition. 1875 – 76 National Maritime Museum, 1977).
  4. The Arctic Gallery of the National Maritime Museum. Polar Record. Vol. 18, No. 115, 1977, p. 388 – 90. (Reprinted by the National Maritime Museum, 1977 as a broadsheet).
  5. International workshop on historical whaling records, Kendall Whaling Museum, 1977. Journal of the Society of Archivists. Vol. 6, No. 1,1978, p. 53 – 54.
  6. The manuscript collection of the National Maritime Museum. Nautical Magazine. Vol. 219, No. 4,p 207-08.
  1. ‘Captain Scott’s DISCOVERY: change of ownership and new plans for her preservation.’ Polar Record. Vol. 19, No. 123,1979, p. 616 – 18.
  2. Captain Scott’s DISCOVERY: new plans for her preservation. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 65, No. 4, p. 358-60.
  3. The White House and the Royal Navy. Mariner’s Mirror. 66, No. 1,1980, p. 73.
  4. The Naval Museum, Istanbul. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 67, No. 4, 1981, p. 374 – 75.
  5. Loan of Sir Clements Markham’s “Memoirs and notes on the Arctic Expedition, 1875 – 76”. Geographical Journal. Vol. 147, Part 1,1981, p. 133-34.
  6. Nutritional aspects of the British Arctic (Nares) Expedition of 1875 – 76 and its predecessors. By Ann Savours and Margaret Deacon. In: WATT, J. et al.. eds. STARVING SAILORS (National Maritime Museum, 1981), p. 131-62.
  7. Discovery of the North Magnetic Pole. Geographical Journal. Vol. 147, Part 3, 1981, p. 389 – 90, plate (facing p. 321). By Anita McConnell and Ann Savours.
  8. In: FRANCIS, Clare Mid TUTE, Warren, “The commanding sea” (London, BBC, 1981), p. 267-68
  1. Biscoe’s Antarctic voyage. Geographical Journal. 148, Part 2,1982, p. 293 – 94, plate (facing p. 211)
  2. The history of the Rossbank Observatory, Tasmania. Annals of Science. Vol. 39,1982,p. 527 – 66, illus. By Ann Savours and Anita McConnell.
  3. The National Maritime Museum. In: MALAURIE, Jean and DEVERS, Sylvie, Arctica 1978. Vlf Congres International des Bibliotheques Nordiques. 7th Northern Libraries Colloquov. 19-23 September 1978. (Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) 1982, p. 369 – 71. [As source for polar history]
  4. Mary C. Lobban. Polar Record. Vol. 21, No. 133, 1983, p. 403. [Obituary. Died 14 June 1982 while Professor of Physiology, Memorial University, Newfoundland.]
  5. Profile: John Biscoe, master mariner 1794 – 1843. Polar Record. Vol. 21, No. 134,1983, p. 485 – [Includes some previously unpublished material from the Public Record Office and Hydrographic Department concerning Biscoe’s claim to have discovered a continent.]
  6. Britons in Antarctica. Polar Record. Vol. 21, No. 134,1983, p. 510 – 11. [Review of Sir Vivian Fuchs’ book Of ice and men: the story of the British Antarctic Survey 1943 – 73.]
  7. Captain Alan J. Villiers. Polar Record. Vol. 21, No. 134, 1983, p. 516. [Obituary]
  8. Sir William Crowther. Polar Record. Vol. 21, No. 134, 1983, p. 517. [Obituary]
  9. Conference on the history of discovery of the Arctic regions, Rome, 1981. Imago Mundi. No. 34, 1982, p. 134. [General account, with special reference to cartographical papers.]
  10. The younger Cleveley and the Arctic, 1773 – 4. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 69, No. 3,1983, p. 301 – 04, illus. [Proves that Philippe d’Auvergne, not Cleveley, accompanied Phipps in 1773]
  11. M.S. Endeavour and the Falklands. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 70, No. 1, 1984, p. 95 – 96. [Reports in Gentleman’s Magazine of 1772 and 1774 about Captain Cook’s former ship.]
  12. The Crimean War in the Arctic: a further note. Polar Record. Vol. 22, No. 139,1985, p. 427 – 29.
  13. “A very interesting point in geography”: the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Vol. 37, No 4,1984, p. 402 – 28. (Paper given at the conference on Arctic history and cartography, Rome 1981)
  14. Contre-Amiral Jean Comuault. Polar Record. Vol. 22, No. 141,1985, p. 721 – 22 [Obituary].
  15. Franklin memorial at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Mariner’s Mirror. 72, No. 4,1986, p. 480 – 81. [Followed by note on the commemorative service for Sir John Franklin held there, October 1986].
  16. Commemorative service for Sir John Franklin (1786 – 1847). Geographical Journal. 153, Part 1, 1987, p. 145.
  17. Professor Christopher Lloyd Polar Record. 23, No. 145, 1987, p. 479 – 80. [Obituary]
  18. Captain W.R. Colbeck, RNR, FRICS, MEng. Friends of the Maritime Trust. Newsletter. 12, Spring 1987, p. 9. [Obituary of Second Mate and Navigator during Discovery’s BANZARE voyages, 1929 – 31].
  19. An 18 th Century voyage towards the North Pole. Friends of the National Maritime Museum. Newsletter. No. 10, June 1987, p. 5 – 7. [Light-hearted summary of Phipps paper (No. 47 in this list). Refers to newly completed waterbottle in the Science Museum, as probably designed and used during this 1773 voyage.]
  20. Discovering the Discovery. In: Annual Report of the Hakluyt Society for 1986 (pub. London, 1987), p. 13 – 25. [Text of talk on history of Captain Scott’s ship, mainly 1900 – 1931, given after 1986 AGM].
  21. The British Admiralty and the Arctic, 1773-1876. In: PoleNord 1983/North Pole 1983 … Actes du 10e collogue international du Centre d’Etudes Arctiques/Proceedings of 10th international Colloquy of the Centre d’Etudes Arctiques. Paris … novembre 1983. (Paris, Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987), p. 153 – 67.
  22. George Prideaux Brabant Naish, 1909 – 1977: a tenth anniversary tribute … By Ann Savours and Rina Prentice. Mariner’s Mirror. 73, No. 4,1987, p. 400 – 406. [Bibliography of former Keeper of the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) and Hon. Secretary of the Society for Nautical Research, with biographical sketch].
  23. Some medical aspects of Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century British polar expeditions seen through the eyes of three surgeons. In: SCHADEWALDT, Hans and LEVEN, Karl-Heinz, Actes/Proceedings/Vortrage of the International Symposium on the History of Maritime Medicine. Dusseldorf. 30 August 1986. (Dusseldorf, Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Universitat Dusseldorf, 1988), Article 15, p. 111 – 25, 12 plates. [Assistant Surgeon Henry Piers, H.M.S. Investigator. 1850 – 54, Dr. Edward Wilson, National Antarctic Expedition 1901 – 04, Dr. A.H. Macklin, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-16]
  24. Explorers and travellers. In: GREAT BRITAIN. National Heritage Memorial Fund, Treasures for the nation : conserving our heritage. (London, British Museum Publications, 1988), p. 138.
  25. The diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Piers, H.M.S. Investigator. 1850 – 54. Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 76, No. 1,1990, p. 33 – 38.
  26. The Parliamentary award of 1772 to Dr. Charles Irving for salt water distillation at sea. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 76, No. 4,1990, p. 362 – 65. .
  27. The Antarctic. In: KEAY, John, ed. The Royal Geographical Society history of World exploration (London, Hamlyn, 1991) p. 256 – 77.
  28. Lead poisoning and the Franklin expedition. Polar Record. Vol. 28, No. 164, 1992, p. 73. [Letter to the Editor].
  29. Hobart and the polar regions, 1830 – 1930. In : WINTER, Gillian, ed. Tasmanian insights : essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell. (Hobart, State Library of Tasmania, 1992), p. 175 – 91. [From John Biscoe to Sir Douglas Mawson].
  30. The voyages of the “Discovery” : the illustrated history of Scott’s ship. Foreword by H.R.H. theDuke of Edinburgh. Preface bv the late Sir Peter Scott. London, Virgin Publishing, 1992. 400p. illus., maps (two on end-papers).
  31. Scott gone – but never forgotten. The Times. 23 March, 1993. (Letter in reply to Bernard Levin’s feature “What made Scott brave?”, Ibid. 9 March 1993. Erroneous date inserted by the Letters Editor regarding the establishment of the Mansion House Fund, 1913.]
  32. Shackleton, James Caird and Polar Record. Vol. 29, No. 171,1993, p. 343. [Letter to the Editor re relief of the Elephant Island party, 1916.]
  33. Ice voyages. Books from Finland. 1993, No. 2, p. 108-10. [Essay review of The Northeast Passage from the Vikings to Nordenskiold. published by Helsinki University Library and the John Nurminen Foundation, 1992.]
  34. The voyages of the ‘Discovery’ London, Virgin Publications, 1994. 400p. illus. maps. [Limpback edition very slightly revised. Preface and foreword as above. No maps on end papers.]
  35. The contribution of Selma Huxley Barkham to the history of the Basque fisheries. From Ann Savours and David Quinn. The Mariner’s Mirror. 80, No. 4, November 1994, p. 484. [Letter to the Editor concerning the use of the Barkhams’ researches in Spain in J-P Proulx’ booklet published by Parks, Canada, 1993, without proper acknowledgement.]
  36. Wooden ships and iron men : some sources for their history. In : WALTON, D W H et al. Bipolar information initiatives, the needs of polar research. Proceedings of the 15th Polar Libraries Colloquy. (Huntingdon, Bluntisham Books, 1995), p. 47-53. (ISBN 1 871999 06 5).
  37. H G R King and Ann Savours, eds. Polar pundit: reminiscences about Brian Birlev Roberts. Iv, 140p. Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, Polar Publications 1995. [Ann Savours’ reminiscence appears on p. 110-13.]
  38. Dr. Helen Wallis, O.B.E., FSA. Polar Record Vol. 31, No. 179, 1995, p 441. [Obituary].
  39. Carteret at the helm. In: TYACKE, Sarah and CAMPBELL, Tony, eds. The globe my World: tributes to Helen Wallis. (Privately issued and presented at the Royal Geographical Society, London, May 1995), p. 50-51.
  40. Captain A.R. Williamson, O.B.E., D.S.C. The Shuttle (Dundee Heritage Trust), No. 25, Spring 1996. [Obituary of former Able Seaman during the Discovery’s 1911 supply voyage to Hudson Bay, when in Hudson’s Bay Company ownership.]
  41. Clements Markham : longest serving officer, most prolific editor. In : BRIDGES, R.C. and HAIR, P.E.H.. eds. Compassing the vaste globe of the Earth : studies in the history of the Hakluyt Society. 1846 – 1996. (London, Hakluyt Society, 1996), p. 164 – 88, illus. [Biography, written from his diaries and published works.]
  42. Captain A.R. Williamson, OBE, DSC. Polar Record. Vol. 32, No. 182,1996, p. 271. [Obituary of former Able Seaman during the Discovery’s voyage to Hudson Bay, 1911.]
  43. 150 years of the Hakluyt Society. Polar Record. Vol. 32, No. 182,1996, p. 271 [1846- 1996]
  44. Terence Armstrong. Annual Report of the Hakluyt Society for 1995 (published 1996), p. 28 – 30. [Obituary of long-serving Hon. Secretary of the Society, former Reader in Arctic Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge and much loved and respected colleague.]
  45. The Hakluyt Society 1846 – 1996. Archives: journal of the British Records Association. Vol. 22, No. 95, October 1996, p. 142.
  46. Rear Admiral Maurice James Ross, C.B., D.S.C. Polar Record. Vol. 33, No. 185, 1997, p. 166; ibid. No. 186, p. 257. [Obituary of author of Ross in the Antarctic and Polar pioneers, great grandson of Sir James Clark Ross.]
  1. Return to Rossbank : magnetism and meteorology at Hobart in theory and practice, 1840 – 54. By Ann Savours and Anita McConnell. In : KENWORTHY, Joan and WALKER, J. Malcolm, eds. Colonial observatories and observations : meteorology and geophysics. (University of Durham, Geography Department, with the Royal Meteorological Society, 1997), p. 49 – 58. [Sequel to 1982 paper published in Annals of Science.l
  2. Barry Ranford. Polar Record. Vol.33, No. 186, 1997, p.258-59 [Obituary of enthusiast for Sir John Franklin’s last expedition, who in 1992 – 93 discovered skulls and bones on King William Island, which he revisited in 1994.]
  3. Foreword to Frank Debenham’s In the Arctic: tales told at tea-time. Edited bv Barbara Debenham. Banham (Norfolk), Erskine, 1997, p. ix-xii _
  4. Answers 18 (1997). Water purification at sea. Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 84, No. 3,1998, p 343 [Answer to a query on the subject containing information regarding Dr John Irving’s apparatus, 18th]
  5. A narrative of Frobisher’s Arctic voyages. In: SYMONS, Thomas H.B., Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery. Martin Frobisher’s Arctic expeditions. 1576-1578 (Hull, Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilisation, 1999), Vol. 1, p. 19-54.
  6. (With Sir James Watt) The captured ‘Countrey people’: their depiction and medical history. In: Thomas H.B. SYMONS, Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery …. Vol. 2, p. 553-62.
  7. The search for the North West Passage. London, Chatham Publishing, 1999, 356p. illus. maps. [Roughly from Frobisher to the St Roch. written from both published and manuscript sources. Co­published by St Martin’s Press, New York, 1999. U.S. paperback edition, spring 2001.]
  8. The Natural History of the Discovery’s Antarctic voyages. Scottish Naturalist. Vol. 111,1999, p 37- 68, illus. maps (2 folding). [Paper given at conference in Dundee organized by the Society for the History of Natural History on “Natural History and the Sea”, September 1997.]
  9. Icy waters. In: The Conway history of seafaring in the twentieth century (London, Conway Maritime Press, 2000), p 59-79, illus.
  10. John Bentley. Polar Record.36, No. 197, 2000, p 170. [Obituary of former cadet during the Discovery Antarctic (Oceanographic) Expedition of 1925-27.]
  11. From Greenland’s icy mountains to India’s coral strand. History Today. Vol. 51, No. 3, 2001, p 44-51. [Life of Sir Clements Markham, 1830-1916.]
  12. The voyages of the “Discovery”. London, Chatham Publishing, 2001. [Abridged edition published in hardback and paperback for the barque’s centenary]
  13. The Discovery’s centenary – and Shackleton. The James Caird Society Newsletter. Issue 7, June 2001, p 3.
  1. The oceanographic work of Captain Scott’s 1901-31. In: BENSON, Keith R., and REHBOCK, Philip F., eds. Oceanographic history: the Pacific and beyond. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002), p 174-85. [Paper given in July 1993 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, during the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, slightly updated for these Proceedings.
  2. The North West Passage in the Nineteenth Century: perils and pastimes of a winter in the ice. London, the Hakluyt Society, 2003. [Text of Annual Lecture, 2002.]
  3. Travels with mules: Antarctica 1912. Polar Record. Vol. 39, No. 210, 2003, p 253. [Seven pack mules from the Himalayas, brought in the Terra Nova to Cape Evans, May 1912; their subsequent employment.]
  4. Northwest Passage. In. SPEAKE, Jennifer Literature of travel and exploration. (New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003), Vol. 2, p. 872 – 75. [Encyclopaedia article. Unfortunate editorial amendment inserted p. 872.]
  5. Three British seafarers in the Southern Ocean : the voyages of Captains John Biscoe (1830 – 33), Henry Foster (1828 -31) and James Clark Ross (1839 – 43). In : MERWE, Pieter van der, ed. Science and the French and British navies, 1700 – 1850. (Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, 2003), p. 117 – 30. [Paper given at the 8th Anglo-French Naval Historians’ Conference, Greenwich, 30 April-3 May 2001].
  6. Entries on Sir Ernest Shackleton, Dr.John Rae, H. “Gino” Watkins and Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published 2004.
  7. The diary of Dr. A.H. Macklin kept during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17. The James Caird Society Journal. No. 2, November 2004, p. 19-22
  8. Ships employed in Arctic ice : Discovery’s past, 1602 – 1876. Archives of Natural History. 32, Part 2, October 2005, p. 144-60
  9. The James Caird and the National Maritime Museum. James Caird Society Newsletter. Issue 12, May 2006, p. 10-11
  1. Later searchers for the Northwest Passage. In: HANBURY-TENISON. Robin, ed The seventy great journeys in history (London, Thames and Hudson, 2006). p. 186-89
  2. Entries on Sir Clements Markham, Dr. Edward Wilson, the voyage of H.M.S. Chanticleer, and scurvy. In: RIFFENBURGH, Beau, ed Encyclopedia of the Antarctic (New York, Routledge, 2006).
  1. Rescue of Victorian hostages in Ethiopia. Daily Telegraph 9th March 2007. [Magdala, 1868. Letter to the Editor].
  2. Journal kept by Midshipman Joseph Henry Kay during the voyage of H.M.S. Chanticleer, 1828-31. Edited by Ann Savours and Anita McConnell. In: BEALS, Herbert K. et al. Four Travel journels … 1775-1874 (London, Hakluyt Society, 2007) p. 253-327
  1. Supplying Russia during the Great War, 1914-1918. Polar Record. 44, No. 229, 2008, p. 184 -85.
  2. Entries on Roald Amundsen, Antarctic and the Southern Ocean, Northwest Passage: exploration voyages 1500 – 1800. HATTENDORF, John B. ed The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007).
  3. Entries on Bellingshausen, Biscoe, Bougainville, John Davis, Dumont d’Urville, Duperrey, Lesson, McCormick, de Nerville, Pemetty, and Weddell. TATHAM. David, ed. The Dictionary of Falklands Biography (including South Georgia) from discovery up to 1981. (Ledbury, David Tatham, 2008).
  4. British Arctic whaling log books and journals: a provisional listing. By Sidney Brown, Arthur Credland, Ann Savours and Bernard Stonehouse. Polar Record 44, No. 231, 2008, p.311-320.
  5. Ann Katharine Parry. Polar Record. 44, No. 231, 2008, p. 384. [Obituary of author of Parry of the Arctic (1963) and The Admirals Fremantle (1970)]
  1. Ann Giffard (1924-2008). Mariner’s Mirror. 95, No. 4, 2009, p.390-91. [Obituary of widow and co-author of Basil Greenhill.] Reprinted with a number of other obituaries in the centenary history of the Society for Nautical Research by Hugh Murphy and Derek Oddy, 2010.
  2. Kathleen Scott’s statue of Captain Smith of the Mariner’s Mirror. Vol. 95, No. 4, 2009, p.478-83. [In Beacon Park, Lichfield.]
  1. “A very interesting point in geography” revisited: the Phipps expedition towards the North Pole In [FORGAN, Sophie, ed.] Northward Ho! Catalogue of the Phipps exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Musuem, Whitby, 2010, p. 1-23. [Abridged and amended version of the paper published in Arctic, 1984. no. 47 in this list.
  1. Kathleen Scott’s statue of Captain Smith of Polar Record. Vol. 46, No. 237, 2010, p. 178-79. [Shorter article than no. 113, above, with different photographs.]
  2. Sir James Watt. Mariner’s Mirror. 96, No. 4, 2010, p. 492-93. [Postscript to obituary, ibid. p. 2, drawing attention to Surgeon Vice Admiral Watt’s contributions to Starving sailors (Greenwich, 1981) and to T.H.B. Symons, ed. Meta Incognita… .Martin Frobisher’s Arctic expeditions (Canadian Museum of Civilisation, 1999). Author given as Savours Shirley under “Correspondence”.
  3. The South Polar Times. Introduced by Ann Savours with the first Facsimile of The South Polar Volume IV. edited by Apslev Cherrv-Garrard and published on Midwinter Day. 1912. Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute [with John] Bonham, 2010. [The commentary covers the history of polar “publishing”, during long winter nights, with biographical notes on the contributors to the The South Polar Timesl.
  4. A South Seas Whaling journal in the Cathedral archives. Canterbury Cathedral Newsletter. 48, Spring 2011. [Kept daily by Edward Harris in the George Home of London, 1832-35. On temporary loan from Littlehampton Museum for transcription for several years, before transfer to Hull History Centre, 2011, for further work by whaling historian Arthur Credland M.B.E., former Director of Hull Maritime Museum. Anonymous article].
  5. Roger Henry Parry (1939-2010). The Mariner’s Mirror. 97, No.4, November 2011, p.278. [Obituary of former Assistant Director of Marine, Hong Kong, who, on retirement to Liverpool, was much concerned with the organisation of the S.N.R./Maritime Museum, Merseyside conference “British Ships in China Seas”, held at the museum in September 2002].
  6. Gyp – What’s in a name? Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library News. No. 50, Winter 2011, p. 5. [Link between the author’s border collie and the Bishop of Gippsland. Married name, Ann Shirley, given as the author. ]
  7. Polar Record. Vol 48., No 245., 2012, p. 198 [Outer page of four containing cartoon advertising this milk-based food additive from which biscuits were made for Antarctic expeditions of the “Heroic Age”, with explanatory note.
  8. The South Polar Times. Commentary. London, the Folio Society, 2012, [Edition of 1000 copies to accompany facsimiles of 12 original issues, produced during Captain Scott’s Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions, 1901-04 and 1910-13]

In preparation:

The first complete edition of Captain John Biscoe’s journal of his Antarctic voyage of 1830 -33. With Dr. Maurice Raraty.

 

 

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