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Robert Falcon Scott

Writer-in-Residence Jo Woolf writes of the life and adventures of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon-Scott
RSGS collaboration with Access to Inspiration

RSGS is delighted to announce that we will be partnering with Access to Inspiration, to record a series of podcasts giving leading perspectives on how we promote climate solutions and encourage people to be more active.
In My Community

We often talk of being part of a community, but what does this mean? We want you to tell us about a community that you feel is important to you.
Sir Ernest Shackleton and T S Eliot’s ‘third man’

Amid T S Eliot’s long and dauntingly bleak poem, ‘The Waste Land’ is a curious passage describing two people who are attended by an invisible companion. How was this phenomenon, now known as ‘the third man’, inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton?