1980s: A Case for Geography

Updated October 2020

Keith Joseph was the Secretary of State for Education when this document was created. It was a response to comments that he had made at the GA Conference 1985 and was a defence of the subject to his successor (as it turned out). The defence was collated by Patrick Bailey and Tony Binns.

References
Hansard
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1989/may/05/geography

A working party was set up and its membership is referred to here

• Mrs. Kay Edwards—Head of Geography, Penglais Comprehensive School, Aberystwyth
• Mr. Richard Lethbridge—Former chairman, Tower Steel (Holdings) plc, now a branch secretary of the Country Landowners' Association
• Mrs. Wendy Morgan—Recently retired headmistress of Elmsett Primary School, Suffolk
• Dr. Keith Paterson—Senior Lecturer in Geography, Liverpool Institute of Higher Education
• Mrs. Eleanor Rawling—National Co-ordinator, Geography Schools and Industry Project
• Mr. Michael Storm—Staff Inspector for Geography and Environmental Studies, Inner London Education Authority
• Mrs. Rachel Thomas—Member of the Countryside Commission and Exmoor National Park Committee
• Mr. Rex Walford—Lecturer in Geography and Education, University of Cambridge

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40571306.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Also published by the GA as a separate publication once it had been delivered.

Bailey, Patrick, and Tony Binns. “A Case for Geography: A Response to Sir Keith Joseph.” Geography, vol. 72, no. 4, 1987, pp. 327–331. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40571306. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020.

More to come on this nearer the time.