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John Rae’s stonehouse – home from home in the Arctic
They don’t get a whole lot of tourists in Repulse Bay. It is not that they don’t deserve them; the...
The greatest Arctic explorer of them all: John Rae 200 years on
He set out from his home in Orkney when he was just nineteen, a newly qualified medical graduate...
Images from Canada for the John Rae bicentenary
Here in Toronto, where I live, a great many artists have adopted an abstract style. I tried that...
John Rae’s favourite places – the story of an exhibition
I’ve always known about John Rae, there is a memorial in St Magnus Cathedral which shows the...
A year of events to honour John Rae
A rich mix of events will take place across Orkney in the months ahead to mark the bicentenary of...
John Rae: a clash of methodologies and ideologies
The scandal that rocked the Victorian establishment It is 200 years since the death of John Rae and...