This week the country is marking the 100th anniversary of Britain’s entry into the First World War. As Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in our House of Lords 1660-1832 section, explains, this was rather unfortunate timing for the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton… Travelling to the Antarctic might appear a relatively extreme way of avoiding the opening action of the First World War, but this … Continue reading The ‘White Warfare of the South’: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition and the First World War