Christian Drury

@cjdrury

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

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Christian Drury@cjdrury· 27d

Recently back from sunny Denmark. None of my edgy pictures came out very well, so here's Nyhavn...

The row of different coloured houses along the water on Nyhavn in Copenhagen

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Jul 1

International rain-watching at the Riverside 🌧️

A cricket ground with covers and floodlights on

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Jun 23

The last of the light over our (very warm) cricket match at Maiden Castle tonight

A cricket field with the sun dropping behind the wooded hill beyond the boundary

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Jun 18

Midsummer sunshine after the rain in Durham ☀️

Durham cathedral and the River Wear in evening sunshine

Christian Drury@cjdrury· May 10

Played my first game of cricket since 2019 (!) today at a lovely ground in Newcastle. We lost, but I got a couple of wickets (and a very slow 5) 🏏

Heaton Sports Ground. There are people playing cricket with a church tower rising above a line of trees at the edge of the field

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Apr 25

At the Riverside. Promising England hopeful Ben McKinney has just been knocked over by promising England hopeful James Anderson

Cricket being played at the Riverside ground in Chester-le-Street

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Apr 19

Spring on the Wear 🌿

Durham Cathedral and the River Wear with trees coming into leaf and blue sky

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Mar 29

Getting ready for the new season

The cover of THE MCC CRICKET COACHING BOOK. Half the cover is decorated in the MCC's red and yellow stripes

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Jan 9

I have a new article out in the Journal of Tourism History, looking at how travel guides, infrastructure and photography shaped tourism in Norway. What and who did travel guides depict, in text and photographs, and how? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Dec 31

Winter afternoon in Oxford

A view across a road to buildings with blue sky and a winter daytime moon beyond

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Dec 25

Merry Christmas! 🎄 This year's very on-brand present:

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

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Dec 3

A wintery Wear in Durham

The river Wear in bright winter sun with mist over the water

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Nov 26

Some new (to me) Nordic travel writing: William Sansom's THE ICICLE AND THE SUN (1958)

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

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Nov 19

A wintery Durham from the train ❄️

Durham Cathedral with snowy roofs in front of it

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Nov 13

Some of the installations at Lumiere in Durham. A botanical feel this year - rhizomes, flowers and harvests 🍄

A network of interconnecting green threads lit up

A field of large, colourful flower sculptures in front of the Cathedral

Lots of floating paper lanterns, lit from inside, in the Cathedral cloisters

A projection of trees against a row of houses

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Oct 26

Rowers on the Wear this morning

Two rowing boats going down a river lined with autumnal trees under grey cloud

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Oct 25

Autumn in Teesdale 🍂

High Force, a large waterfall, with trees in autumn colours either side of the river

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Oct 12

Some autumn woodland colours 🍂

A view through some trees with green, yellow and orange leaves on them

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Sep 26

Nice to see this in actual print as well!

The cover of TRANSNATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE REGION, 1840-1940

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Sep 10

Excited to see this chapter in print - it's about British travellers in Jotunheimen, travel infrastructure and the idea of remoteness: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...

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

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 31

Peter Wessel Zapffe bouldering near Tromsø in 1927 📷: Nasjonalbiblioteket

A man in a hooded jacket and sunglasses climbing on a rocky outcrop above snowy ground

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 23

Seaside mosaics in Whitley Bay Metro station 🚇

Three mosaic installations in archways, showing families playing on a beach and the coast by moonlight

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 14

Summer evening in Durham ☀️

Durham Cathedral and the banks of the river in sunshine from Prebends Bridge

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 13

Walkers in Jotunheimen, c. 1880 📷: Axel Lindahl/Norsk Folkemuseum

Two figures looking at a lake surrounded by mountains

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 13

Climbing in Lyngen in the 1930s 📷: Zapffe/Nasjonalbiblioteket

A climber on a narrow rockface photographed from below

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 13

Zapffe climbing on Stetind in 1936 📷: Nasjonalbiblioteket

A man in a hat climbing a rock face, photographed from above with a steep drop below

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 13

One of Jørgen Grundtvig-Olsen's Jotunheimen panoramas 📷: Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen

A panorama of a mountain valley with patchy snow and a group of walkers

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 12

Mountaineers in Lyngen in 1931 📷: Zapffe/Nasjonalbiblioteket

Two mountaineers on a snowfield with rows of mountains beyond

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 12

The Lyngen Alps, photographed by Wilse in 1909 📷: Norsk Folkemuseum

A sharp range of snowy mountains coming down to and reflected in a fjord

Christian Drury@cjdrury· Aug 12

The British mountaineer Margaret Sophia Green with her Norwegian guides, Halvor Halvorsen and Torgeir Sulheim in Skjolden in the late 1880s 📷: Knud Knudsen/ Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen