From the archives

As you'll have guessed, the creation of this blog has already taken me many hundreds of hours so far, and will continue to take hundreds of more before it is completed. It's a bit of a labour of love.

I've been doing some research on the histories / biographies / genealogies / publications / contributions of each of the GA Presidents since the first, over 125 years of GA history (and geography).
Here are some of the sources I've used in case you want to follow this, and add anything else from what you can find.

Sources
Websites
GA website

Wikipedia pages have been produced for many of the past Presidents, but not for many of the recent ones, which could be something to rectify as part of the project perhaps.

Journals
The Geographical Teacher and Geography have both printed Presidential addresses in the past. For those who subscribe to 'Geography' at the moment, free access is provided to both of these journals going back to the first issue, via JSTOR.

Peter Jackson put together a brief biography of the Association for the 125th year, and that is available from the GA website.

Books

Rex Walford wrote an excellent book on the history of Geography Education in secondary schools in the UK, which I got a second hand copy of some time ago. This is more open in its descriptions than just the GA's role, but there are plenty of mentions of the impact of

Rex Walford: "Geography in British Schools 1850-2000" (Woburn Press, 2001) - Paperback, 260pp ISBN: 0-7130-4027-0

Some second hand copies are available for 1p (plus P&P) on Amazon.

W. G Balchin wrote an excellent biography of the 'first hundred years' of the Association, and this has also been one of the main books I've referred to. This ends in 1993 of course.

W.G.V Balchin: "The Geographical Association: The First Hundred Years 1893-1993" (The Geographical Association, 1993) - Paperback, 113pp
ISBN: 0-948512-57-1

Both of these men are also Past Presidents of the Association, so they will get their own entries in the blog when the time comes.

A chronology of the Association - download as a PDF file

There have also been numerous other books by the Presidents, and many are available to view digitally on the Internet Archive site.
There is a published history of the Manchester Branch of the Geographical Association which has some details on the Geographical Association as well.
Also thanks to Dorcas and Aaron at Solly St. for finding me the past copies of the GA News (which aren't available digitally earlier than 2004)
Thanks also to the former Presidents who have filled in a special Google form questionnaire I sent round, and others who have sent me e-mails. Chris Kington has a special package for me too, which I am going to collect in a few weeks.

And finally, thanks to archivists from a number of institutions and other colleagues, who have already proved very helpful in sourcing images and other documents to flesh out some entries which were looking quite brief without their help. They are all individually thanked on the relevant posts.