Our Heritage

For over 135 years, the RSGS has worked with and celebrated some of the most outstanding individuals in the fields of science, exploration, education and communication. And we have been engaged in many of the critical issues and concerns of the day, from mapping and exploration to town planning, flooding and national parks.

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Footprints: Three Explorers Who Favoured Active Travel (Part 3)

Following on from our recent magazine on Active Travel, our Writer-in-Residence has produced three blogs about explorers who favoured human-powered adventures. Third and finally, it's Isobel Wylie Hutchison...
Carbon Choices

Carbon Choices tells the greatest story on Earth: how humans came to emit 40 billion tonnes of an invisible gas each year, changing the chemistry of the atmosphere and the oceans, and steadily destroying the life support systems they depend on.
A Helping Hand for Schools

We want to support Geography teachers and pupils at this difficult time by producing a series of informative videos and associated lesson plans, each addressing a topic at Nat5 or Higher.
September 2020

September e-newsletter of the RSGS: GeoQuizzical, Inspiring People online events, policy updates, Soils education, best of the blog, Jamie Livingstone video

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Departing the Island on 'The Edge of the World’

"Ninety years ago, on August 29, 1930, the last 36 residents of St Kilda were evacuated. Huddled on HMS Harebell they were conveyed from Village Bay on Hirta to mainland Scotland." Writes Collections Volunteer, Kenny Maclean FRSGS.
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland: An Interview

After 14 years, Mike Robinson stepped down from the charity coalition he established: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. In this interview with Jo Woolf, he speaks about his lifelong passion for environmental issues and his hopes for the future.
Professor Roger Crofts - The World's Special Natural Places

Online event with Professor Roger Crofts, former Chair of RSGS. An Inspiring People At Home talk from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
Shackleton at the RSGS: A Sketch

This is an attempt to explain why there are no newspaper cuttings in the RSGS archives from early 1904 until late 1905. This is approximately the length of Shackleton’s tenure as Secretary...
What an Emergency Looks Like

"In the case of coronavirus, despite some amount of confusion, at least we now know what an emergency response looks like," writes Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of RSGS.
COP26 Postponed

"Postponing the relevant UN COPs was inevitable, but we need to see them as essential pre-planning, and re-schedule them as soon as circumstance allows," writes Mike Robinson, RSGS Chief Executive.
Erskine Beveridge: the Dunfermline Geographer

"Beveridge's photographs could be dismissed as a romantic view of Scotland but, as well as castles and mountains, they also capture a historical geography and social history..." writes Bruce Gittings FRSGS
An Interview with Levison Wood

“It’s about showing what a region is really like through the eyes of the people who live there.” Explorer Levison Wood speaks to RSGS Writer-in-Residence, Jo Woolf.
An Interview with Calum Maclean

For our Young Geographer magazine published in 2019, our team of Editors sat down with BBC presenter and wild-swimmer Calum Maclean. The magazine article was published in Gaelic, but we're pleased to share the English version online!
The Climate Emergency: One Year On

"Although coronavirus is quite rightly dominating our thoughts and immediate concerns, the climate emergency hasn't gone away." An interview with Mike Robinson and Professor Dave Reay.

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