By zeroing in on Franklin’s earlier journey, one generally treated as a footnote or background story in most other books about the lost expedition, he makes the case that the men who sailed in ...

A rare Arctic rescue button was sold at auction on Tuesday for £6,000, which was 10 times its pre sale estimate. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks, of Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood in Exeter, said ...

These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...

Science communicator Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on Monday 7 July on a voyage following that of Leopold McClintock, who was known ...

Today in History for July 25: In 325, the Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first ecumenical council, its 300 attending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.

As Dundalk Native, Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on another adventure, this time to the Arctic from July 7th - 23rd for an ...

"Lost in the Arctic" is a Documentary in which we follow the mystery behind Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of 1845. Franklin and his crew of 129 men vanished without a trace while attempting ...

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many of its officers were the first to fall.

Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55 : with a memoir of his other services / by Richard Collinson ; edited by his brother, ...