Some sources of information: GA journals

To research the Presidents for the blog, I have used a number of sources.

These include those listed at the bottom of each blog post, but it's worth mentioning the GA's journals, which include notes on previous meetings, AGMs, Presidential addresses and 'Back and Front Matter; which features details on conferences, branch meetings, meetings and minutes, and changes of GA officers, from which one can chart the involvement of particular characters who then emerge as President having served their time in other roles.

The Geographical Teacher was the first of the GA's journals. It had its first issue in 1901. Although there was no issue in 1902, it returned in 1903, and then continued for several decades. It was edited by John Scott Keltie for many years, Beckit and Roxby earlier, and other names then took over. All past issues are available on the JSTOR archive for 'Geography' subscribers - login via the GA website.
This has some wonderful articles, and it's good to see female geographers so well featured, even in early editions (although the GA's formation is connected with the position of women within the RGS, so perhaps this is not so surprising). We still have an imbalance in the number of male to female Presidents of course (and my own taking-up of the Post doesn't help with that...)



It later became the journal Geography. This is also available on the JSTOR archive for subscribers.
This is the academic outlet of the association, with useful information on AGMs, formation of committees, branch activities and other activity.
More recently, an editorial collective shaped the new format, which to begin with slimmed down the many pages of references which accompanied many articles, and which many people will never read anyway.

Teaching Geography was launched in the mid 1970s - more on that to come when I get that far.
This features articles relating to pedagogy in the secondary classroom, and also some

The GA Magazine is a more newsy journal, which also shares news of GA policy and committees and special interest groups, as well as projects.
Issues dating back to 2004 (Issue 77) are available online.

I gained a few useful entries from there, and went up to Solly St over the summer to go through the paper archive copies. Early issues of the GA Magazine did contain some details of Presidents, but few and far between. We've also moved away from the tradition of printing Presidential Addresses.

Primary Geographer (now Primary Geography) was first published in the 1990s.
I am pleased to have contributed some articles to all of the GA's journals over the years, including most-recently a piece in the Spring 2020 issue of Primary Geography.
Issues back to 2004 (Issue 55) are available online.

GA members who subscribe to the present day journal 'Geography' will find they have access to an electronic back catalogue of all issues going back to 1901, which has been produced in association with JSTOR.
This has been the primary source for information on the proceedings of the Association, as outlined at the AGMs.
A similar facility exists for Teaching Geography too, going back to the early issues of the journal. Others have researched this archive such as Indra Persaud.
I think there may also be plans to digitise Primary Geography(er)

Other sources were:
Wikipedia - some of the older, more illustrious Presidents have pages, whereas more recent Presidents are less likely to be featured. I may well encourage some page building nearer the time as we move later into the 20th Century.
Many of their entries didn't have mention of the Geographical Association Presidency, so I have edited these entries to include reference to the GA.

Classroom Geographer journal has previously been mentioned as well. I have most of a full set of this journal.