Christian Drury

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Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/

The row of different coloured houses along the water on Nyhavn in Copenhagen
A cricket ground with covers and floodlights on
A cricket field with the sun dropping behind the wooded hill beyond the boundary
Durham cathedral and the River Wear in evening sunshine
Heaton Sports Ground. There are people playing cricket with a church tower rising above a line of trees at the edge of the field
Cricket being played at the Riverside ground in Chester-le-Street
Durham Cathedral and the River Wear with trees coming into leaf and blue sky
The cover of THE MCC CRICKET COACHING BOOK. Half the cover is decorated in the MCC's red and yellow stripes
The abstract of an article titled "'The land of the glorious fjords... is so easily accessible': Infrastructure and Identity in Travel Guides to Norway, 1870-1920". The abstract reads: As Norway became an increasingly popular destination in the latter half of the nineteenth century, British travellers turned to guidebooks to structure their travel. Guidebooks to Norway were published in international series by John Murray, Thomas Cook and Baedeker, but also by local travel agents such as Thomas Bennett. Norway seemed to offer an escape from the urban and industrial, yet travellers relied on modern networks of transport and infrastructure. The 1916 guide, Sunlit Norway, was published by the Bergen Steamship Line and the Norwegian State Railways. Visual and textual depictions of infrastructure are prominent and this involvement of transport companies also suggests that the use of certain forms of infrastructure was not simply assumed but actively encouraged. Considering guidebooks as a form of travel writing shows how this travel was fundamentally transnational and highlights the involvement of local people in tourist practices. The presence or absence - of local people in travel guides provides insight into the impact of tourism on local communities. It also complicates the representations of Norway found in travelogues and travel guides in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reemphasising the modern and alternative ideas of the nation.
A view across a road to buildings with blue sky and a winter daytime moon beyond
The cover of Hans Christian Erlandsen's KALDE KYSTER, UKJENT LAND: DEN NORSKE POLARHISTORIEN, with a black and white photograph of an icy landscape with a Lone figure facing away from the camera
The river Wear in bright winter sun with mist over the water
The front pages of William Sansom's THE ICICLE AND THE SUN (1958), including a map of Scandinavia with the sea in green and land in white
Durham Cathedral with snowy roofs in front of it
A network of interconnecting green threads lit up
Two rowing boats going down a river lined with autumnal trees under grey cloud
High Force, a large waterfall, with trees in autumn colours either side of the river
A view through some trees with green, yellow and orange leaves on them
The cover of TRANSNATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE REGION, 1840-1940
Escaping Modernity, Accessing the Past: The Transnational Construction of the Remote in Late-Nineteenth-Century Norway Christian Drury Introduction In his retrospective account of three decades of climbing in Norway, the British mountaineer William Cecil Slingsby reflected on his ignorance of the places he visited in the 1870s. This was something that he believed, by the first decade of the twentieth century, no mountaineer reaching Norway would experience again. Slingsby wrote that his lack of knowledge “cannot easily be appreciated by the tourists of to-day who find a comfortable hut wherever one is needed, guides who can at least lead them to the foot of any mountain which they may wish to climb, and last, but not least, improved maps and most excellent guide-books.” Slingsby was commenting on a
A man in a hooded jacket and sunglasses climbing on a rocky outcrop above snowy ground
Three mosaic installations in archways, showing families playing on a beach and the coast by moonlight
Durham Cathedral and the banks of the river in sunshine from Prebends Bridge
Two figures looking at a lake surrounded by mountains
A climber on a narrow rockface photographed from below
A man in a hat climbing a rock face, photographed from above with a steep drop below
A panorama of a mountain valley with patchy snow and a group of walkers
Two mountaineers on a snowfield with rows of mountains beyond
A sharp range of snowy mountains coming down to and reflected in a fjord
A woman and two men in late nineteenth century mountaineering clothes, carrying ropes and alpenstocks, on a path towards a house, with mountains in the background
A horse-drawn sled on a expanse of snow, with two men riding it
A group of around 30 men and women in coats and hats stood in front of a glacier foot. They are all looking to their left, away from the camera
Two men roped together climbing a narrow chimney on a rock face
A vista of snowy mountains and snow fields
A group of eight walkers stood in snow, with snow falling. They are in a range of formal and informal clothes, with different types of coats and hats visible
A woman stood on a snowfield surrounded by mountains, facing away from the camera and roped to the photographer
A group of c. 30 people stood on stony ground at the foot of an ice cliff
A row of four skiers in a whiteout
Three walkers heading across a snowfield away from the camera towards a snowy summit
A large stone cabin in a mountain valley with mountains behind
A group of walkers with staves and young women in aprons in front of a wooden hut with a large mountain behind
Two climbers traversing a steep snow slope in the mountains
A group of three men and three women stood and sat on a glacier. One woman is climbing down towards the camera on a rope
A man climbing on the side of a sharp mountain ridge, wearing a broad-brimmed hat
Two ice axes stood in snow in front of a snowy mountain valley
A man in formal dress stood at the front of a glacier by the steam of water coming out of it
A tree-lined mountain valley with another mountain range at the end
A range of snowy mountains viewed across a fjord
A selfie of me in a down jacket and woolly hat on a rocky mountain summit with snow patches beyond
A bay with very clear water with mountains beyond
A red boat house on the edge of a fjord with hills and mountains beyond
Lord's cricket ground looking towards the Pavilion
Me in a tweed jacket and a green tie with dodos on it
A pier going out into the sea with a large headland beyond
A large hotel in snow in front of a mountain. There are a series of fences running around the buildings
Durham Cathedral from the riverbanks in sunshine
An article by me titled "Escaping Modernity, Accessing the Past: The Transnational Construction of the Remote in Late-Nineteenth-Century Norway"
The Riverside cricket ground under heavy cloud
St. Giles' in Oxford. A wide road lined with trees and stone terraced buildings on the far side