Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions were feats associated with “imperialist expansionism”, the buyer of the explorer’s Polar Medal has argued in a bid to take it overseas. A foreign collector ...

On 3 June 1916, Stanley had ever seen so many people at the new Town Hall, to welcome Sir Ernest Shackleton who gave a brief account of his late expedition In March 1915 the Endurance was ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

And, whereas Shackleton had been part of a large expedition, Worsley, who was fifty-five, was crossing alone and unsupported: no food caches had been deposited along the route to help him ...

Made by London-based apparel brand Shackleton in collaboration with Leica and expedition photographer Levison Wood, the new ...

Shackleton’s famed Endurance expedition—and the subsequent rescue mission—became the subject of dozens of books, documentaries and TV shows. Often, these retellings mention an advertisement ...

Into approximately the same period as Shackleton's expedition falls Charcot's voyage on the “Pourquoi Pas” in the Antarctic (1908-1910). In sportsmanlike spirit this French explorer refrained ...

Shackleton’s Emperors,” an 18-day voyage to see the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island. The special voyage also ...

This boot was modelled on the the boots worn by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his Murman Coast Expedition in 1918. They were made in Northampton and follow Shackleton's pattern for Antartic use.

Many of the most famous expeditions, such as Shackleton’s fateful voyage on the Endurance, occurred in the early 20th century, when photography was available. These conditions make for well ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

Paying homage to Frank Hurley, the trailblazing photographer who immortalised Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Endurance expedition, this waterproof jacket blends the spirit of exploration with ...