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Author: Jo Woolf

August 18, 2016December 4, 2016

Things they said: Sir Archibald Geikie

An insight into the perceptive mind of 19th century geologist Sir Archibald Geikie

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Antarctic  6 Comments

July 26, 2016November 18, 2016

‘A born leader of men’: Sir Ernest Shackleton in Edinburgh

On a freezing winter night, an enthusiastic audience gathered to hear one of the greatest polar heroes of them all

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July 13, 2016November 18, 2016

‘The Flying Years’

A beautiful poem, published anonymously in 1926 but attributed to the Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins

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Africa, General  5 Comments

June 27, 2016December 20, 2016

Horses’ heads to the east, and other rules of RSGS membership

It’s 1886, and we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the Society with an elegant ‘conversazione’ – but be careful where you park your horse

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Arctic, Women explorers  12 Comments

June 19, 2016October 4, 2018

Isobel Wylie Hutchison: the Calling of Bride

A gentle Scotswoman whose love of botany drew her to the lands of the far north

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