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Bridging the Atlantic
When Cunard’s express ocean liner, the luxurious RMS Aquitania, docked in Southampton on 22 November 1921, one of the 3,000 passengers who disembarked carried somewhat unusual luggage. 32-year-old radio amateur Paul Godley had sailed from NewYork on
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Cromarty’s Emigration Stone
The ‘Cleopatra’, as she swept past the town of Cromarty, was greeted with three cheers by crowds of the inhabitants and the emigrants returned the salute, but mingled with the dash of the waves and the murmurs of the breeze, their faint huzzas seemed
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The Petardy Historic Landscape Project
The project was kickstarted by Erik Crnkovich, then a student at the University of St Andrews, and brothers Douglas and Angus Bowden-Smith. The aim was simple: to combine serious research with affordability in order to give everyone an opportunity to

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