Imelda Kehoe

In the back of a book, among a collection of other books, in a small hotel at the foot of a mine, on the outskirts of the most northerly town in the world, I found a poem called The Spell…

On 2nd September 1941, while the people of Svalbard were being evacuated by Allied and Soviet Forces, coal miner and pacifist, Anders Halvorsen took some food and water, then crawled beneath the floorboards of a barracks and hid.

Following Germany's…

In May 1743, a Russian vessel carrying fourteen men became trapped in ice near Edgeøya (pronounced Ed-goy-ah), off the south-eastern coast of Spitsbergen. They were, senior officer Aleksei Inkov, and crew members Khrisanf Inkov, Stepan Sharapov, and Fedor Verigin. 

Fearing…

As a Yorkshire Native, naturally I am drawn to human stories about its history. This photograph of Ribbleshead Viaduct, was taken whilst on a weekend away at Chapel-le-dale. 

It is so impressive. I was trying to imagine what it would…

Light appears as a suggestion on the horizon. A thinning of the darkness, before its slow claim on the mountains and valleys around Longyearbyen. In early February this happens for just a few hours of each day.

In the world's…

Songs come from all sorts of places, the common thread being stories of people, memory, family and the influence of moving around, an early career in nursing, old records, travelling and other human stories. 

I have found listening and paying…