Ed Armston-Sheret

Ed Armston-Sheret is a historian of exploration and an IHR Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. He is the author of 'The Grip of the Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and Survival on the Frozen Frontier' and 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration.'

Ed’s scholarship has been recognised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the award of a three-month fellowship at the Huntington Library in California. He has also received an American Geographical Society Library Fellowship to visit the organisation’s archives in Milwaukee, as well as a Royal Historical Society grant to support research at the National Library of Scotland.

Alongside his academic work, Ed has experience in the museum sector. He was awarded the British Society for the History of Science Engagement Fellowship at the Scott Polar Research Institute’s Polar Museum in Cambridge. In this role, he researched and curated a new exhibition exploring the contribution of polar explorers to understandings of climate change. He is also undertaking a curatorial research role at the London Transport Museum.