Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The GA and RGS(IBG) were awarded funding for a joint initiative called the Action Plan for Geography (2006-2011) whose Young Peoples Geographies project involved CEO Ian as a participating academic [see the project website archive on the Wayback Machine here ].

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Back in the day when there were few geography websites, one of the best was Rob Chambers' GeoBytes. This post on LinkedIn is a nice reflection on his journey with the use of digital tools to support geography teaching and learning. They'll also live on on the Internet Archive site too. He has now closed the site down.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This blog post is about the building which houses the RGS, also known as "the home of Geography" and has also been described by Joe Smith as "the Broadcasting House of geography". We saw some of the extensive archives of books and maps which are stored behind the scenes, and the people who look after them. Put your name forward.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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Living Geography

JULY 1, 2024

At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. All RGS members are invited to attend the Chair's opening plenary conversation on mapping geography , whether they are attending the conference or not. A cross posting from my new blog. 'At

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Living Geography

MAY 2, 2024

The author is talking about how he used the RGS archives to write his book. The Centenary of this event has spawned a lot of books and other events. I saw Mick Conefrey's book 'Fallen' in Topping Books Ely today - it is a biography of Mallory. It's free for RGS Members. Details of the lecture are here.

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Dr. Preece

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As Storm Babet brings challenging circumstances and significant negative impacts – including tragic loss of life – to the UK in mid-October, it’s an opportunity for teachers to do a bit of ‘live Geography’ and explore some impacts and approaches. If you’ve got one near you, they have archives and recorded images over a time period.

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Living Geography

JULY 16, 2024

You can borrow the book from the Internet Archive library. The work featured here seems to have been completed by a large, mostly female team of geographers. Page 1 of the book references the Land Use Survey that was instigated by Dudley Stamp and which she was an integral part of.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. When in doubt, send a scout Al-Idrisi also consulted older geographic compendia, notably Ptolemy’s Geography , as well as Islamic works. His other honorific, “father of geography,” is a shared prize at best.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A cross-posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog which covers my work as Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society. I have already blogged about the first one - which features work on the Doreen Massey archive. There is an opportunity for those looking for a PhD opening to engage with the RGS Collections.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. The holiday ritual is more about militarism, exceptionalismand what it means to be an American. Operation Christmas Drop embodies what many in the U.S. taxpayers feel good.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Archiving and crowdsourcing data Researchers at the private research organizations have been describing internal efforts to rapidly archive data. DataLumos , a free, open-access data archive at the University of Michigan, is one such crowdsourcing site. Its not clear what will happen to thisinformation.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities. We disagreed with that notion, and we wanted to have it housed somewhere that would provide longevity, that would include archival processes and a real place for the public humanities inside the academic world. and elsewhere.

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