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Inspiration Lasts a Lifetime
In the latest edition of the RSGS e-news, we feature:

Our new Future Generations Fund appeal to better resource the work we do for young people, and the visit of the 90-strong Bartholomew family to our headquarters in Perth. 

News that we will once again be open for Doors Open Day on 17th September, our newest RSGS Honorary Fellow Professor Iain Black, and a new book about Isobel Wylie Hutchison set to be released this September. 
At RSGS we believe that inspiration lasts a lifetime. We want to inspire young people with hope, ignite their faith in the future, and involve them in helping to solve some of the real-world problems that affect them most.

We want to bring inspiration to more young people today – through our public talks and events where they can meet fascinating people, through our collections and publications where they can explore broad geographical ideas, through our work of informing policy and positive action on critical geographical issues which affect their futures.  And through more direct engagement with young people – listening and responding, supporting and encouraging, offering opportunities and experiences. But to do this we need your help. 

Please donate to our Future Generations Fund, and help us better resource the work we can do with and for young people.
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We were delighted to welcome over 90 members of the Bartholomew family to RSGS headquarters, The Fair Maid’s House, in Perth. The extended family, spanning four generations, all of whom are descendants of world-renowned Edinburgh cartographer John George Bartholomew (1860-1920) and his wife Janet MacDonald, had travelled across the world from the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe, England and Scotland to celebrate their mutual relative. During their visit all members of the family were invited to sign a special map reproduced by artist Colin Woolf from The Times Survey Atlas of The World (1920), prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute under the direction of John George Bartholomew, depicting world vegetation distribution and ocean currents. Four generations of Bartholomews signed the special map, including some of the youngest members!
Doors Open Day, on Saturday 17th September, will provide an opportunity for RSGS Members and non-Members alike to visit our headquarters in the Fair Maid’s House in Perth. The European Heritage Days theme is 'sustainability', while the national theme follows Visit Scotland’s 'Year of Stories'. At the Fair Maid’s House, we will be featuring a special display put together by the RSGS Collections Team, titled Roots, Routes and RSGS: revelations from RSGS Visitors Book, using our visitors book as the centrepiece and focal point from which rich stories flow. Everyone is welcome and entry is by donation.
We were pleased to present Professor Iain Black with RSGS Honorary Fellowship for his invaluable contributions towards the creation of the Climate Solutions course, providing a simple and quick way to gain significant understanding of one of the most important issues of our generation- climate change. Iain has worked closely with our Chief Executive, Dr Mike Robinson, to write and deliver the course, and its popularity is a testament to this effort, with an amazing 75,000 people now enrolled.

Iain recently joined the University of Strathclyde Business School as Professor of Sustainable Consumption to lead on the School’s sustainability strategy and develop the Climate Solutions Programme. He is pictured here (on the right) with Executive Dean of Strathclyde Business School, Professor David Hillier.
A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most remarkable travellers is being made into a book by Edinburgh publisher Taproot Press. Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison is compiled and transcribed by Hazel Buchan Cameron, who first discovered the essays in a box marked ‘Unpublished?’ while working as Writer-In-Residence for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. The book will be published on 14th September, and can be pre-ordered now at taprootpressuk.co.uk.
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