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Posted on March 20, 2013 by Aileen Fyfe

Praise for our Science Week event!

My colleague, Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith, and I thought that dressing up in Georgian costume might be a way to engage visitors with historic artefacts relating to the voyages of discovery to the South Seas, in the late eighteenth century. Our event, which was part of Fife Science Week 2013, and hosted at MUSA (Museum of […]

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