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THE STORY BEHIND…

y research tends to start with the ‘huh!’ moment; the moment I think, why didn’t I know about that? It was the Darien Expedition that triggered my research for . The expedition was an unsuccessful attempt by Scotland to establish a colony in Panama in the

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