Congratulations to Annalise Claydon on the publication of Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth (Bloomsbury). Stretching from the North American Arctic to Tasmania, this study places women and Indigenous intermediaries at the centre of histories of exploration and empire. Following the family of Sir John Franklin from 1818 to 1860, it examines how women, Indigenous intermediaries, whalers and traders engaged in the “politics of truth” as they safeguarded their reputations: making maps, writing narratives, circulating rumours, participating in science and humanitarianism, and charting political paths on the edges of empire. In doing so, it links nineteenth-century concerns over explorers’ trustworthiness with the current urgent need for truth-telling about the past. Congratulations Annalise!