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“…if you go down to the woods today…”

In this photo essay, Ted Leeming explores current forestry policy, practices and management in the UK & Scotland in 2023.
J Norman Collie: from a chemistry lab to the Columbian Icefield

RSGS Writer-in-Residence reflects on the life of climber and pioneering chemist J Norman Collie, who made the first neon display tubes.
Alice Roberts: Ancestors

Anthropologist and presenter Professor Alice Roberts will be speaking at the University of Strathclyde on Saturday 20th January for her talk titled “Ancestors”, based on her book of the same name.
Beyond the Map Podcast

In a new podcast titled Beyond the Map, Professor Jo Sharp looks beyond the obvious to understand the hidden geographies that make our world.

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