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Podcast: The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
Episode: Maritime Scotland 3: A Blockade Runner from Fife in the American Civil War
Description: This the third episode in our special series on the maritime history of Scotland. Dr Sam Willis explores the remarkable career of Joannes Wyllie, a Fife man who made a fortune running guns from Glasgow to the confederate south during the American Civil War (1861-5) – revealing Scotland's hidden history of supporting slavery. He talks with John Messner a curator for transport and technology at Glasgow Museums.  John was part of the project team for the Riverside Museum-Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, winner of the European Museum of the Year 2013.  In 2015 he co-curated a display about Glasgow’s role in the...