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Boldly going (or maybe not…)
Much of the past couple of months has been taken up with preparing a new batch of Royal Society manuscripts for release in Turning the PagesTM digital format. Fellows’ scientific and expedition diaries...
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Up the Coppermine without a paddle
At the risk of becoming typecast as ‘that Royal Society librarian who always blogs about expeditions going horribly wrong’, here’s another pear-shaped and lurid tale I found while digitising images for...
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Season’s greetings
A very Merry Christmas to all our readers! We hope you’ll be warmer and better-provisioned than the travellers in the above illustration – see Up the Coppermine without a paddle for the full story. As...
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An Arctic mystery
In the summer of 1845 two ships were waiting in the icy waters of Baffin Bay, off the southwest coat of Greenland, for good conditions to cross Lancaster Sound. They were HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and...
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