Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…
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Asia
Mildred Cable, Eva and Francesca French
Three extraordinary women who travelled along the Silk Road and faced death threats as an occupational hazard
Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Silk Roads
7th May 1888, and a letter to the RSGS from an eminent German geographer
Annie Taylor: breaking into Tibet, with cold tea and a Christmas pudding
The story of one woman’s absolute determination to cross one of the most dangerous landscapes on Earth
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Fanny Bullock Workman – a woman of substance
Mountaineer, geographer, lecturer, and fearless campaigner for women’s rights – Fanny Bullock Workman was a remarkable woman
Jo Woolf 
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