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High Tea on the Icy Sea

By Ciarán Lavelle

They came from the North and they came prepared, well they came with everything…

July 12, 2016/by Comms

Reinvigorating a City … and History

By Sue Bassett

Conserving artefacts from the early British Antarctic expedition huts whilst actually…

July 4, 2016/by Comms

For Better or Worcestershire Sauce

By Josefin Jimenez

For the past weeks, as the paper conservator, I have been working on a collection…

June 27, 2016/by Comms

Fighting Fit at 30 Below

By Ciarán Lavelle

The men of Scott’s 1910 expedition would have been at the peak of their physical…

June 15, 2016/by Comms

A Discovery Below Penguin Guano

By Stefanie White

Looking through the magnification lens, I take a breath through my respirator and…

June 2, 2016/by Comms

Meet the Team – Cape Adare Artefacts Conservation Project

By Josefin Jiménez

The work to conserve the artefacts from Cape Adare, the base established by Carsten…

May 24, 2016/by Comms

Favourites

By Sue Bassett

During the decade of work by the Trust’s on-ice conservation teams, many personal…

February 22, 2016/by Comms

Dogs

By Sue Bassett

While Captain RF Scott wasn’t keen on the idea of using dogs as his main means of…

October 28, 2015/by Comms

Midwinter

By Sue Bassett

Midwinter is upon us, for those in the southern hemisphere at least. For those…

June 18, 2014/by Comms

Let There Be Light … and Heat!

By Meg Absolon

Let there be light… and heat!

The flick of the switch is usually all it takes…

June 11, 2014/by Comms

Can You Still Tell a Man by His Shoes?

By Stefanie White

My grandmother, my mother and even my best friend have been heard announcing the…

June 11, 2014/by Comms

Dog Biscuits

By Meg Absolon

I’ve been very fortunate since arriving on the Ice to be working in the on-site conservation…

March 7, 2014/by Comms

Shackleton’s Car

By Sue Bassett

When Ernest Shackleton led the British Antarctic ‘Nimrod’ Expedition 1907–09…

February 3, 2014/by Comms

Ross Sea Party Tent

By Sue Bassett

A century on, we continue to share some of the artefacts we’ve treated from Shackleton’s…

June 12, 2013/by Comms

Ross Sea Party Improvised Gear

By Sue Bassett

The artefacts conserved by the Trust that remain in Scott’s Cape Evans hut tell something…

May 27, 2013/by Comms

Pony Snowshoes

By Sue Bassett

When it comes to working with historical material that is only 100 years old, most…

May 22, 2013/by Comms

Cape Evans Stove

By Sue Bassett

While the Trust’s on-ice conservators move the artefacts from the historic expedition…

January 12, 2009/by Comms

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