Huw Lewis-Jones
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Huw Lewis-Jones is a British
historian
, editor
, broadcaster
and art director
. Formerly historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute
, University of Cambridge
, Dr Lewis-Jones left Cambridge in June 2010 to pursue a number of book and broadcasting projects. Currently he is Editorial Director of the independent publishing company Polarworld.
commander, Lewis-Jones attended Elizabeth’s College, Guernsey
, before studying as a geography undergraduate at St John’s College
, Cambridge
, where he was a Davidson Scholar. He earned a Master of Philosophy
and Doctor of Philosophy
in the history of exploration at the University of Cambridge
.
Dr Lewis-Jones’ ongoing research interests include the intellectual history
of exploration
, maritime
hagiography
, and the cultural history
of the nineteenth century. His particular expertise is in Antarctic
and Arctic exploration
, portrait
ure, print culture
, and the history of photography
and he lectures widely on these and other subjects.
Until 2010, Dr Lewis-Jones was Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute
. Founded in 1920, the Institute is the oldest international centre for polar research within a university and has recently been awarded a major Heritage Lottery Fund
award to redevelop its permanent galleries, providing additional exhibition space and enhancing its collections for educational research. Among a number of responsibilities, Lewis-Jones most recently researched and acquired the new national collection of Inuit art
, also supported the Heritage Lottery Fund
.
, a new history of the South Pole
, and an Arctic narrative with popular BBC
presenter and adventurer Bruce Parry
.
Lewis-Jones’ first book was Face to Face: Polar Portraits, an account of historic and modern photographic portraiture, published in 2008. British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
wrote its Foreword. The book was The Sunday Times
‘Book of the Week’ and a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Observer
and received much praise elsewhere. It was also published in Italy by De Agostini and in Germany by Geo and Frederking and Thaler. The Explorers Journal described it as ‘one of the most stunning books of photography in recent times’.
Lewis-Jones has now completed the next book in his series, Ocean Portraits, a celebration of the sea told through rare historic imagery and modern maritime photography, which was released in the United Kingdom in late 2010 by Conway, an imprint
of London-based publishing house Anova Books
. It is understood there will also be French and German language editions. Its Foreword was written by pioneering yachstman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
. Described by Wanderlust magazine as a trove of 'portraiture at its best; personal, insightful and delightfully intriguing', it was selected by The Guardian
as one of 'the year's best photography books'.
Lewis-Jones has made many appearances on radio
and television
. His media career began in developing popular history pieces for SKY Movies
. The 4-part film documentary
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery was screened in 2007 in Australia on ABC
and in the United Kingdom on The History Channel
. He joined the English author Vanessa Collingridge
and naval historian Professor Andrew Lambert
. The documentary Wilderness Explored, produced by Jeremy Bristow, aired on the BBC
in October 2008 and received widespread critical acclaim. It was ‘Critics Choice’ in The Sunday Times
, ‘Pick of the Week’ in The Independent
and ‘Digital Pick of the Week’ in The Telegraph
. The Guardian
declared it ‘a glorious documentary’ and The Radio Times described the work as ‘an entrancing piece of cultural history’.
Since 2007 Lewis-Jones has worked with a number of established and emerging artists: the internationally-renowned printmaker Jörg Schmeisser; Bristol-based fine artist Emma Stibbon, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton
; Nanoq artists Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson; Tiina Itkonen, Finnish Young Photographer of the Year; award-winning bird illustrator John Gale; leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley; and most recently, the forensic installation artist John Kelly. He is currently collaborating with the award-winning photographer Nigel Millard, official photographer of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
and the peerless Icelandic photojournalist Ragnar Axelsson
.
Lewis-Jones’ future exhibitions include Maybe Tomorrow, a photographic journey amongst peoples of the Arctic
, and First Across – a project that unites the exploration and scientific achievements of the 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs
, with those of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition of 1968-69, led by Sir Wally Herbert
. On this later expedition, a 3,800-mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean
, from Alaska
to Spitsbergen
, billed by some as ‘the last great journey on Earth’, Herbert and his team became, undisputedly, the first men to reach the North Pole
by surface travel.
Having opened in Cambridge
in 2007, Lewis-Jones’ exhibition of Herbert’s paintings Art of Exploration was shown in Scotland
during 2009 and at the National Geographic gallery in London. His Face to Face: Polar Portraits exhibition was shown in Cambridge, London and Ireland in 2008. It toured to a number of destinations in 2009, including The Explorers Club
in New York
and Discovery Point, Dundee
, the home of exploration ship RRS Discovery
, the first polar command of Robert Falcon Scott
.
Before returning to the University of Cambridge
, Dr Lewis-Jones was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
and Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum
, Greenwich
. Lewis-Jones is a council member of The 1805 Club
, a Director of the independent publishing
company Polarworld, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
and a member of The Travellers Club, London. He also writes regularly for Apollo Magazine and is Editor of the annual maritime history journal The Trafalgar Chronicle.
Lewis-Jones and his partner, writer and photographer Kari Herbert
, divide their time between Cambridge and London. They are now reported as living in Cornwall.
United Kingdom
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historian
Historian
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, editor
Editing
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, broadcaster
Presenter
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and art director
Art director
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. Formerly historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute
Scott Polar Research Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge ....
, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, Dr Lewis-Jones left Cambridge in June 2010 to pursue a number of book and broadcasting projects. Currently he is Editorial Director of the independent publishing company Polarworld.
Biography
Grandson of a Royal NavyRoyal Navy
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commander, Lewis-Jones attended Elizabeth’s College, Guernsey
Guernsey
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, before studying as a geography undergraduate at St John’s College
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
, Cambridge
Cambridge
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, where he was a Davidson Scholar. He earned a Master of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy
The Master of Philosophy is a postgraduate research degree.An M.Phil. is a lesser degree than a Doctor of Philosophy , but in many cases it is considered to be a more senior degree than a taught Master's degree, as it is often a thesis-only degree. In some instances, an M.Phil...
and Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
in the history of exploration at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
Dr Lewis-Jones’ ongoing research interests include the intellectual history
Intellectual history
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of exploration
Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching or traveling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans...
, maritime
Ocean
An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...
hagiography
Hagiography
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, and the cultural history
Cultural history
The term cultural history refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural...
of the nineteenth century. His particular expertise is in Antarctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
and Arctic exploration
Arctic exploration
Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic region of the Earth. The region that surrounds the North Pole. It refers to the historical period during which mankind has explored the region north of the Arctic Circle...
, portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
ure, print culture
Print culture
Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. One prominent scholar in the field is Elizabeth Eisenstein, who contrasted print culture, which appeared in Europe in the centuries after the advent of the Western printing-press , to scribal culture...
, and the history of photography
History of photography
The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.- Etymology :The word photography derives from the Greek words phōs light, and gráphein, to write...
and he lectures widely on these and other subjects.
Until 2010, Dr Lewis-Jones was Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute
Scott Polar Research Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge ....
. Founded in 1920, the Institute is the oldest international centre for polar research within a university and has recently been awarded a major Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. The Fund opened for applications in 1994. It uses money raised through the National Lottery to transform and sustain the UK’s heritage...
award to redevelop its permanent galleries, providing additional exhibition space and enhancing its collections for educational research. Among a number of responsibilities, Lewis-Jones most recently researched and acquired the new national collection of Inuit art
Inuit art
Inuit art refers to artwork produced by Inuit people, that is, the people of the Arctic previously known as Eskimos, a term that is now often considered offensive outside Alaska...
, also supported the Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. The Fund opened for applications in 1994. It uses money raised through the National Lottery to transform and sustain the UK’s heritage...
.
Media, Books, Exhibitions
Dr Lewis-Jones is now working on an exploration of classic mountain photographyPhotography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, a new history of the South Pole
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...
, and an Arctic narrative with popular BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
presenter and adventurer Bruce Parry
Bruce Parry
Bruce Parry is a Former Royal Marines Officer and Instructor who is now a TV presenter and adventurer, known particularly for the documentary programme series Tribe , co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel...
.
Lewis-Jones’ first book was Face to Face: Polar Portraits, an account of historic and modern photographic portraiture, published in 2008. British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE , better known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a British adventurer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a prolific writer. Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years including a period on counter-insurgency service while...
wrote its Foreword. The book was The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
‘Book of the Week’ and a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
and received much praise elsewhere. It was also published in Italy by De Agostini and in Germany by Geo and Frederking and Thaler. The Explorers Journal described it as ‘one of the most stunning books of photography in recent times’.
Lewis-Jones has now completed the next book in his series, Ocean Portraits, a celebration of the sea told through rare historic imagery and modern maritime photography, which was released in the United Kingdom in late 2010 by Conway, an imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
of London-based publishing house Anova Books
Anova Books
Anova Books is a UK-based publishing company founded in 2005, with the acquisition of the Chrysalis Books Group from the Chrysalis Group. Since its inception, the firm has acquired or created several other imprints...
. It is understood there will also be French and German language editions. Its Foreword was written by pioneering yachstman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Robin Knox-Johnston
Sir William Robert Patrick "Robin" Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and bar is an English sailor. He was the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe and was the second winner of the Jules Verne Trophy . For this he was awarded with Blake the ISAF Yachtsman of the Year award...
. Described by Wanderlust magazine as a trove of 'portraiture at its best; personal, insightful and delightfully intriguing', it was selected by The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
as one of 'the year's best photography books'.
Lewis-Jones has made many appearances on radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
. His media career began in developing popular history pieces for SKY Movies
Sky Movies
Sky Movies is the collective name for the premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, and later British Sky Broadcasting. It has around 5 million subscribers, via satellite, cable and IPTV in the UK and Ireland...
. The 4-part film documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery was screened in 2007 in Australia on ABC
ABC Television
ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....
and in the United Kingdom on The History Channel
The History Channel
History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
. He joined the English author Vanessa Collingridge
Vanessa Collingridge
Vanessa Collingridge is an author and broadcaster. She is the youngest of five children born and raised in Woking in Surrey, England. Her father Gordon was half-Irish and her mother Irene half-Scottish....
and naval historian Professor Andrew Lambert
Andrew Lambert
Andrew Lambert BA , MA, PhD, FRHistS is a British naval historian, who is currently Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.-Early life and education:...
. The documentary Wilderness Explored, produced by Jeremy Bristow, aired on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
in October 2008 and received widespread critical acclaim. It was ‘Critics Choice’ in The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, ‘Pick of the Week’ in The Independent
The Independent
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and ‘Digital Pick of the Week’ in The Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
. The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
declared it ‘a glorious documentary’ and The Radio Times described the work as ‘an entrancing piece of cultural history’.
Since 2007 Lewis-Jones has worked with a number of established and emerging artists: the internationally-renowned printmaker Jörg Schmeisser; Bristol-based fine artist Emma Stibbon, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton
University of Brighton
The University of Brighton is an English university of the United Kingdom, with a community of over 23,000 students and 2,600 staff based on campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings. It has one of the best teaching quality ratings in the UK and a strong research record, factors which...
; Nanoq artists Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson; Tiina Itkonen, Finnish Young Photographer of the Year; award-winning bird illustrator John Gale; leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley; and most recently, the forensic installation artist John Kelly. He is currently collaborating with the award-winning photographer Nigel Millard, official photographer of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways....
and the peerless Icelandic photojournalist Ragnar Axelsson
Ragnar Axelsson
Ragnar Axelsson, who also calls himself RAX, is a photographer born in Iceland in 1958. He has been a staff photographer of Morgunblaðið since 1976...
.
Lewis-Jones’ future exhibitions include Maybe Tomorrow, a photographic journey amongst peoples of the Arctic
Arctic
The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
, and First Across – a project that unites the exploration and scientific achievements of the 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...
, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs
Vivian Fuchs
Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs FRS was an English explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.- Biography :...
, with those of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition of 1968-69, led by Sir Wally Herbert
Wally Herbert
Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man to walk undisputed to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's famous, but disputed, expedition...
. On this later expedition, a 3,800-mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...
, from Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
to Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...
, billed by some as ‘the last great journey on Earth’, Herbert and his team became, undisputedly, the first men to reach the North Pole
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface...
by surface travel.
Having opened in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
in 2007, Lewis-Jones’ exhibition of Herbert’s paintings Art of Exploration was shown in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
during 2009 and at the National Geographic gallery in London. His Face to Face: Polar Portraits exhibition was shown in Cambridge, London and Ireland in 2008. It toured to a number of destinations in 2009, including The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is a professional society dedicated to scientific exploration of Earth, its oceans, and outer space. Founded in 1904 in New York City, it currently has 30 branches world wide...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and Discovery Point, Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
, the home of exploration ship RRS Discovery
RRS Discovery
The RRS Discovery was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain. Designed for Antarctic research, she was launched in 1901. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, successful...
, the first polar command of Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
.
Before returning to the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, Dr Lewis-Jones was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, it also incorporates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,...
, Greenwich
Greenwich
Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...
. Lewis-Jones is a council member of The 1805 Club
1805 Club
The 1805 Club was founded in 1990 to accomplish three objectives:* To assist in the preservation of monuments and memorials relating to Vice- Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and the seafaring people of the Georgian era....
, a Director of the independent publishing
Publishing
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company Polarworld, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
and a member of The Travellers Club, London. He also writes regularly for Apollo Magazine and is Editor of the annual maritime history journal The Trafalgar Chronicle.
Lewis-Jones and his partner, writer and photographer Kari Herbert
Kari Herbert
Kari Herbert is a British travel writer, photographer and television presenter.-Biography:The daughter of polar explorer, Sir Wally Herbert, Herbert spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland. Her first language was...
, divide their time between Cambridge and London. They are now reported as living in Cornwall.
External links
- Scott Polar Research Institute - http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/lewis-jones/
- Guardian online gallery - http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2008/nov/13/antarctica-adventure?picture=339567490
- Jörg Schmeisser - http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/ag/artist/jorg_schmeisser/
- Emma Stibbon - http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/stibbon/
- Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson - http://www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com/
- Tiina Itkonen - http://www.kashyahildebrand.org/zurich/itkonen/index.html
- John Gale - http://www.galleryofbirds.co.uk/
- Martin Hartley - http://www.martinhartley.com/
- John Kelly - http://www.phoenixarts.org/artists/artists_johnkelly.htm
- Nigel Millard - http://www.nigelmillard.co.uk/
- Ragnar Axelsson - http://www.rax.is/
- Polarworld publishing company - http://www.polarworld.co.uk/