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 ...

One hundred years on, another Antarctic chef Gerard Baker, uncovers the extraordinary life led by Charles Green and his version of two years cooking for the men of the Endurance. One of the greatest ...

For almost three decades, the University of Birmingham has been ahead of the game in the teaching of sports science; one of the top-rated sports science departments in both UK higher education and the ...

I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first. The race was on.

However, this was never fully in-depth – we mainly focused on the Australian hero Sir Douglas Mawson and his trek through unchartered areas. What particularly caught my interest in Shackleton’s story ...

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