NEW TODAY
20 November 2022
New illuminator article. High res photographs from a late Victorian exhibition in London: the 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition. (Bandwidth warning: this loads 100+ images.)
https://www.illuminator.blog/p/1891-franklin-gallery.html
RECENTLY
6 November 2022
In 2019, Alison Freebairn stumbled upon Franklin relics from Beechey Island in a London archive – all paper, and some still with writing on them. Three years later, she's cracked the meaning of one of the written fragments.
https://finger-post.blog/2022/11/06/riddell-beechey-island/
5 November 2022
Franklin researcher Anne Keenleyside has passed away.
Trent U story:
https://www.trentu.ca/news/story/34753
McMaster U story:
https://sociology.socsci.mcmaster.ca/anthropology/news/remembering-anne-keenleyside
11 October 2022
Franklin researcher Randall Osczevski spotted the original glass photograph of Tookoolitoo is now online from the Smithsonian, as well as photos of Ebierbing/Joe/Ipiirvik.
https://twitter.com/illuminatorblog/status/1579876931398664193
11 September 2022
New Alison Freebairn: A Franklin Expedition Guide to Edinburgh.
https://finger-post.blog/2022/09/11/franklin-expedition-guide-edinburgh/
18 September 2022
New Alison Freebairn article. In Edinburgh, a relic of the man who found the graves on Beechey Island.
https://finger-post.blog/2022/09/18/goodsir-organ-mystery/
5 September 2022
May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth out now.
https://twitter.com/SJFranklin_1845/status/1566795141884661766
24 August 2022
Brief illuminator article with hi res images of the two early Peglar sketches.
https://www.illuminator.blog/p/peglar-sketches.html
19 August 2022
The Opels have written a new book on Miertsching from HMS Investigator (German language).
https://twitter.com/Trimaris/status/1557087628763316236