Programme 21 NOVEMBER - THURSDAY LATE NIGHT Open from 10.00 AM – 9.00 PM 22 NOVEMBER - FRIDAY TALKS Open from 10.00 AM – 5.00 PM 12.00-12.15 Introduction to the collection and its highlights by Marcus Budgen Marcus Budgen is the Head of the Medal Department at Spink and co-curator of this exhibition. He has a deep personal passion for exploration in the Polar regions. 12.15-12.45 Penguins in the exergue: Designing Polar medals by Philip Attwood (Keeper of Coins and Medals, The British Museum) The designs that appear on the various official and non-governmental medals relating to Arctic and Antarctic expeditions form a very diverse group. This talk will examine the backgrounds of some of those artists, the techniques they have used to create their medals, and the different approaches they have taken in order to create appropriate and effective imagery. Much appreciated by their recipients and highly regarded by collectors, the medals offer a mirror not only to the history of polar exploration but also to changing notions of what makes a successful medal. 13.00-13.50 Frank Wild and a link with Henry Worsley by Angela Butler - author of the book 'The Quest for Frank Wild' An extraordinary story of how Angie Butler spent eight years searching for Frank Wild, Sir Ernest Shackleton's right hand man and one of the greatest polar explorers of the Heroic Age, who spent the last 16 years of his life in South Africa and was lost both in life and in death. Angie's passion for polar history has resulted in two books - "Ice Tracks – Today's Heroic Age of Polar Adventure" (the book that inspired the name of the company) and "The Quest for Frank Wild" - an account that solved one of polar history's great mysteries. For the past 10 years Ice Tracks has given Angie the opportunity to share her love of travel and adventure and run the PR, communications and media side of the business from Ice Tracks UK Headquarters, based in Warwickshire. When time allows she works on her third book, a biography of Eric Marshall. who with Shackleton, Wild and Adams reached within 97 miles of the South Pole in 1909. 14.00-14.50 Andrew Croft Memorial Trust and Andrew Croft by Julia Korner Julia Korner, LSIAD, is a specialist and lecturer in fine art conservation and restoration of paintings, sculptures and frames. She set up Christie's Maritime Department in 1987, followed by the Frames sales, Aeronautical sales, Exploration and Travel, and the Polar sales. She is the custodian of her father's Polar and War time Archives and through the trust, set up by her husband, Jamie in 1998 upon her father's death, The Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, they support young explorer's carrying out outstanding scientific research in the Polar Regions. We have a constant stream of people coming to our home in Chiswick studying the archives and gleaning vital tips on Polar Exploration as my father wrote on this subject extensively. His memory therefore lives on through generations of inspirational people following in his footsteps. 15.00-15.50 Terra Nova expedition medals and medallists by Anne Strathie, author of 'Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel' Anne Strathie is the author of Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel and From Ice Floes to Battlefields: Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War. Born and raised 30 miles from Birdie Bowers' birthplace, Anne now lives in Edward Wilson's home town of Cheltenham and is currently working on a new biography of Terra Nova expedition photographer Herbert Ponting. Anne, who visited Antarctica and Scott's hut in 2011, is full of admiration for her subjects whose fortitude is an example to us all. 16.00-17.00 Pittarak by Roan Hackney 23 NOVEMBER - SATURDAY TALKS Open from 10.00 AM – 5.00 PM 12.00-12.15 Introduction to the collection and its highlights by Roan Hackney Roan Hackney F.R.G.S, Explorer, Collector and Polar Historian as well as co-curator of the exhibition. 12.20-12.50 Putting Antarctica on the Map by Gregory Edmund An alumnus of the University of Warwick, Gregory joined the Coin Department at Spink, London in September 2016. His role, now integral to the functioning of the department leads him to be exposed to a diverse range of objects which enables him to explore his further love of historical research. 13.00-13.50 Terra Nova expedition medals and medallists by Anne Strathie, author of 'Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel' - Repeated talk from Friday 14.00-14.50 Lawrence Oates by Patrick Cordingley DSO OBE DSc FRGS Patrick Cordingley was commissioned into Captain Oates's regiment, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, now the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. In 1991 he commanded the Desert Rats during the first Gulf War. Since retiring from the army he has been chairman of an IT company, Defence and Security Forum, the National Memorial Arboretum and Gilbert White's House and the Oates Collection. He is also military commentator, working mainly for the BBC. He co-authored a biography of Captain Oates, the soldier who walked willingly to his death on Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1912. 15.00-15.50 Photography in Polar and extreme environments by Nico Wills Nico Wills is a London based photographer, whose work has an international following. After photographing during his service on tour in Afghanistan he has completed a number of extreme photographic opportunities from the Arctic to the Himalayas. In this talk he will discuss his photographic work and the techniques he uses, focusing on amongst other things, work in the Polar regions, specifically Greenland. 16.00-17.00 Summary of the exhibition's goals, aims of supporting the Endeavour Fund and Henry Worsley by Marcus Budgen / Roan Hackney 24 NOVEMBER - SUNDAY Open from 10.00 AM – 5.00 PM | 
