Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…
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Africa
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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A glimpse of Henry Morton Stanley
A moment in the extraordinary life of an African explorer, captured by the newspapers of the time…
Jo Woolf 