Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…
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Robert Falcon Scott
Voices from the Antarctic: Scott and Shackleton at the RSGS
“They lit their pipes by the midnight sun with the aid of a burning glass.”
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Sir Ernest Shackleton: a driving force at the RSGS
In 1904, when Shackleton took up his post as Secretary of the RSGS, his arrival caused quite a stir…
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Book review: ‘Heart of the Hero’ by Kari Herbert
A wonderful book telling the lesser-known stories of exploration – of the wives who were left behind, and those who went with their husbands into the unknown
William Speirs Bruce: Scotland’s Antarctic hero
Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia
Jo Woolf 