Eddie Jenkins
@eddiejenks510.bsky.social
Aspiring Museum Studies Graduate
Volunteer at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum and the Whitby Museum @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
Dodo enthusiast 🦤
Volunteer at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum and the Whitby Museum @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
Dodo enthusiast 🦤
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Wonderful piece of #Polar history found in @whitbymuseum.bsky.social archives- a chart drawn by William Scoresby Junior of his 1806 voyage on his father's ship Resolution. This voyage was Scoresby's first as first officer. It also saw Scoresby Jr and Sr set a new #Arctic highest northern lat. record
Another strange find in the Scoresby collection... a blank map? This chart appears to have been prepared for Elisha Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition (1853-1855), which searched for Franklin's lost expedition. The chart was never filled in, perhaps due to Scoresby and Kane's deaths in 1857.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Another strange find in the Scoresby collection... a blank map? This chart appears to have been prepared for Elisha Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition (1853-1855), which searched for Franklin's lost expedition. The chart was never filled in, perhaps due to Scoresby and Kane's deaths in 1857.
🎂 Happy 246th Birthday to William Scoresby Junior, born on this day #OTD in 1789!
#Arctic #History #Explorer #Exploration #Science #Arcticexploration #NorthPole #NorthWestPassage
#Arctic #History #Explorer #Exploration #Science #Arcticexploration #NorthPole #NorthWestPassage
October 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🎂 Happy 246th Birthday to William Scoresby Junior, born on this day #OTD in 1789!
#Arctic #History #Explorer #Exploration #Science #Arcticexploration #NorthPole #NorthWestPassage
#Arctic #History #Explorer #Exploration #Science #Arcticexploration #NorthPole #NorthWestPassage
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September 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Those of you who know of William #Scoresby Junior probably know him as an #Arctic explorer and a scientist, but likely aren't aware of his brief stint as Vicar of Bradford (1839-1847). When inducted as Vicar, Scoresby pushed his utopian vision in an 11 part plan to revive the Parish. (...)
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
CONFUSING #ARCTIC TERMINOLOGY
In the 19th c. British #whalers used several different names for Greenland & Spitsbergen
Greenland was sometimes called ‘West Greenland’ or ‘Old Greenland’
Spitsbergen was called ‘East Greenland’, ‘New Greenland' or, confusingly, ‘Greenland’!
Pic: #Scoresby Jr map
In the 19th c. British #whalers used several different names for Greenland & Spitsbergen
Greenland was sometimes called ‘West Greenland’ or ‘Old Greenland’
Spitsbergen was called ‘East Greenland’, ‘New Greenland' or, confusingly, ‘Greenland’!
Pic: #Scoresby Jr map
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A map of John Ross and William Parry's 1818 #Arctic expedition, presented to William Scoresby by Ross. This map includes the infamous "Croker Mountains" mirage which led Ross to turn away from the entrance of the NW Passage.
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A map of John Ross and William Parry's 1818 #Arctic expedition, presented to William Scoresby by Ross. This map includes the infamous "Croker Mountains" mirage which led Ross to turn away from the entrance of the NW Passage.
Three maps of the north pole published by the Admiralty, dated 1847, 1849 and 1853. Comparing the three really shows the rate of #polar #exploration in the mid-nineteenth century! All found in the #Scoresby papers at @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Three maps of the north pole published by the Admiralty, dated 1847, 1849 and 1853. Comparing the three really shows the rate of #polar #exploration in the mid-nineteenth century! All found in the #Scoresby papers at @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
Odd #polar find in the #Scoresby papers at the Whitby #Museum and #Archives- a folder titled "patterns of whales", containing 9 sheets of paper shaped like different whale parts. The "Rev." in Scoresby's signature suggests they were made between 1839-1857. Any ideas why he made them? I'm lost!
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My project at the #CaptainCook Memorial #Museum, the "Untold Stories Trail", is now open to the public!
This project aims to increase representation in the CCMM by telling the diverse stories of people who sailed on Cook's voyages. It's my first proper public facing museum project, exciting!
This project aims to increase representation in the CCMM by telling the diverse stories of people who sailed on Cook's voyages. It's my first proper public facing museum project, exciting!
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My project at the #CaptainCook Memorial #Museum, the "Untold Stories Trail", is now open to the public!
This project aims to increase representation in the CCMM by telling the diverse stories of people who sailed on Cook's voyages. It's my first proper public facing museum project, exciting!
This project aims to increase representation in the CCMM by telling the diverse stories of people who sailed on Cook's voyages. It's my first proper public facing museum project, exciting!
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Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
Here's a survey of the south-east coast of Greenland, drawn by #Arctic explorer William Scoresby Jr in July 1822, compared with a modern satellite image. The date provided on the map corresponds with a description of the survey documented in Scoresby's whaling journal. Check out that handwriting!
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here's a survey of the south-east coast of Greenland, drawn by #Arctic explorer William Scoresby Jr in July 1822, compared with a modern satellite image. The date provided on the map corresponds with a description of the survey documented in Scoresby's whaling journal. Check out that handwriting!
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unspeakable horror
August 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
unspeakable horror
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No live #platypus has ever reached the UK, but in #PlatypusMatters I share how, at the height of WW2, Churchill asked Australia to send him one. The story goes that it died of shock when its ship was attacked, but new research suggests that may not be the whole story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved
The platypus - a top secret gift from Australia - was found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
No live #platypus has ever reached the UK, but in #PlatypusMatters I share how, at the height of WW2, Churchill asked Australia to send him one. The story goes that it died of shock when its ship was attacked, but new research suggests that may not be the whole story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wonderful piece of #Polar history found in @whitbymuseum.bsky.social archives- a chart drawn by William Scoresby Junior of his 1806 voyage on his father's ship Resolution. This voyage was Scoresby's first as first officer. It also saw Scoresby Jr and Sr set a new #Arctic highest northern lat. record
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Wonderful piece of #Polar history found in @whitbymuseum.bsky.social archives- a chart drawn by William Scoresby Junior of his 1806 voyage on his father's ship Resolution. This voyage was Scoresby's first as first officer. It also saw Scoresby Jr and Sr set a new #Arctic highest northern lat. record
Today's find @whitbymuseum.bsky.social - a chart of the Davis Strait showing the route of the Whitby-built whaler Phoenix in 1827. Weatherill's 'Ancient Port of Whitby' documents the ship as having been built in 1816. Phoenix berthed in Elsinore, Denmark, from 1826-1832, before returning to Whitby.
July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today's find @whitbymuseum.bsky.social - a chart of the Davis Strait showing the route of the Whitby-built whaler Phoenix in 1827. Weatherill's 'Ancient Port of Whitby' documents the ship as having been built in 1816. Phoenix berthed in Elsinore, Denmark, from 1826-1832, before returning to Whitby.
Artwork from the amazing Revisions exhibition hosted at the @whitbymuseum.bsky.social and Pannett Art Gallery. Fantastic exploration of ownership, integration and colonial narratives. Personal highlights included the artwork depicting indigenous and invasive wildlife.
July 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Artwork from the amazing Revisions exhibition hosted at the @whitbymuseum.bsky.social and Pannett Art Gallery. Fantastic exploration of ownership, integration and colonial narratives. Personal highlights included the artwork depicting indigenous and invasive wildlife.
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This is the figurehead, or emblem, of the Mary Rose, which was found on the wreck site in 2005.
It's the earliest known example of an emblem on an English warship, and even though it's eroded over the years, you can still see where a Tudor rose was carved on both sides.
It's the earliest known example of an emblem on an English warship, and even though it's eroded over the years, you can still see where a Tudor rose was carved on both sides.
July 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is the figurehead, or emblem, of the Mary Rose, which was found on the wreck site in 2005.
It's the earliest known example of an emblem on an English warship, and even though it's eroded over the years, you can still see where a Tudor rose was carved on both sides.
It's the earliest known example of an emblem on an English warship, and even though it's eroded over the years, you can still see where a Tudor rose was carved on both sides.
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“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4lPz3MX
Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a fossil first
New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants
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July 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4lPz3MX
Today I've finished #cataloguing Scoresby's Polar maps portfolio at the @whitbymuseum.bsky.social archive! Particular highlights from today include two maps annotated by Scoresby. The first highlights areas visited by Baffin and E.A. Inglefield, and the other notes landmarks named after Scoresby.
July 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today I've finished #cataloguing Scoresby's Polar maps portfolio at the @whitbymuseum.bsky.social archive! Particular highlights from today include two maps annotated by Scoresby. The first highlights areas visited by Baffin and E.A. Inglefield, and the other notes landmarks named after Scoresby.
Today I'm #Cataloguing more of William Scoresby Junior's polar maps at the Whitby Museum. This Chart of the North Polar sea published in 1835 includes the "loom of the land" spotted by the Arctic explorer William Parry, which was actually a fata morgana mirage.
July 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today I'm #Cataloguing more of William Scoresby Junior's polar maps at the Whitby Museum. This Chart of the North Polar sea published in 1835 includes the "loom of the land" spotted by the Arctic explorer William Parry, which was actually a fata morgana mirage.
#Cataloguing some intaglio prints of Arctic maps produced by the Admiralty in the mid-nineteenth century (belonging, of course, to the Arctic whaler, explorer and scientist William Scoresby Junior). Ominous mentions of John Franklin on this map, published mere months before his death in 1847
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#Cataloguing some intaglio prints of Arctic maps produced by the Admiralty in the mid-nineteenth century (belonging, of course, to the Arctic whaler, explorer and scientist William Scoresby Junior). Ominous mentions of John Franklin on this map, published mere months before his death in 1847
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One of my favourite #MaryAnning facts™️ is that she would discover fossil cephalopod 🐙 fossils with preserved ink sacks, concoct a dangerous chemical slime to turn them back into gloopy ink, and then use her Jurassic ink to draw exquisite illustrations of the vertebrate fossils she found.
Meta.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
One of my favourite #MaryAnning facts™️ is that she would discover fossil cephalopod 🐙 fossils with preserved ink sacks, concoct a dangerous chemical slime to turn them back into gloopy ink, and then use her Jurassic ink to draw exquisite illustrations of the vertebrate fossils she found.
Meta.
Meta.
Very excited (and nervous) to hear that my secret project at the #CaptainCook Memorial #Museum has finally been printed! It's still on track to be installed in time for the Summer holidays, so watch this space...
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Very excited (and nervous) to hear that my secret project at the #CaptainCook Memorial #Museum has finally been printed! It's still on track to be installed in time for the Summer holidays, so watch this space...
Finally put the @megalithic.bsky.social book to good use and checked out the High Bridestones on the North Yorkshire Moors. We were sadly ill-equipped to walk to Lilla Howe, so that'll have to wait for another day...
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Finally put the @megalithic.bsky.social book to good use and checked out the High Bridestones on the North Yorkshire Moors. We were sadly ill-equipped to walk to Lilla Howe, so that'll have to wait for another day...
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A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...