'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and Narrators

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• Dr. Meredith Hooper, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Polar Institute
• Tuesday 10 November 2015, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition needed to be – and was – news. Expedition funding required publicity. Rights, sold in advance, raised essential cash. The book, the film, the lectures circuit, were all essential to the business of expeditions in 1914. Meredith Hooper, Curator of the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Enduring Eye’ Exhibition celebrating the Centenary of Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition, looks at some of the pressures on the telling of what turned into an extraordinary story.

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