Could you be the GA President for 2027-28?

You have until October to put yourself forward...

There is also a position for an Elected Trustee.

This is the current Governing Body, with Alastair Owens as Chair.

Thanks to Denise

Today is the last day of Denise Freeman's Presidency.

Today is the last day of @geography_DAF's presidency of the @The_GA. For the last 12 months she has tirelessly promoted her message of 'Geography for Everyone' visiting all four nations and engaging with every phase of Geography education. A brilliant President: Thank You Denise! pic.twitter.com/wWlcuRWEJl

— Alastair Owens (@AlastairHackney) August 31, 2024

That means there will be a new President added to this blog tomorrow! Watch out for the new post...

It also means an additional new role for Denise, to take a little pressure off Alastair Owens.

We've worked closely together over the past year and I am really pleased that Denise not only continues as 'Immediate Past President', bur it also taking on the role of Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from tomorrow.

Big day tomorrow for @RobboGeog and @GeogMum...

— Alastair Owens (@AlastairHackney) August 31, 2024

GA Conference 2023 - Geo Live

Preparations are now in the final changes for the forthcoming GA Conference 2023.

The Geo LIVE event for students is also available once again.

This year's event is called PLACE Stories and has been curated by Denise Freeman and Alastair Owens.

2023 Programme: Place stories

9.30 - 10.00 - Registration

10.10 - Keynote lecture: Shabna Begum

11.30 - 12.15 - Introduction to the day and the Voices Project

Focusing on space, place and identity, students explore where groups have felt in place/out of place, exploring similarities and differences; as well as critically questioning why these patterns exist.

12.15 - 12.45 - Lunch on site (students bring their own lunch).

12.45 - 2.00 - Fieldwork with Duncan Hawley - Stories in Urban Stonework

Going outside, students join Duncan to look at the rock cycle in an urban environment and consider dynamic changes in the landscape and a changing world.

2.00 - Part two of the voices project

Engaging with recordings from the Voices Project, students explore how to collect their own oral geographies and how they could be used in the NEA, at school, or in the future.

3.30 pm End

GA Conference 2023 Early Bird Tickets

These are now available for booking from the GA website.

Hopefully see some of you there in April 2023 for Alastair Owens' Collaborative Geographies.

Discounted early-bird tickets to #GAConf23 are now available for purchase!

The 2023 conference is due to take place from 13–15 April 2023 at Sheffield Hallam University.

Book your tickets now at https://t.co/4cZpMyXD0G #geographyteacher #geography #education #conference pic.twitter.com/Sypyzbus6u

— Geographical Association (@The_GA) September 22, 2022

GA Conference 2023 - booking now open

The 2023 Conference will be held at Sheffield Hallam University and have an updated structure from previous years.

Day one will begin at 12.00 on Thursday 13 April with a welcome from our President Alastair Owens and include your choice of a range of field visits, a place at one of our networking events, and the Conference Dinner, as well as the annual GA awards ceremony, Public Lecture and drinks reception.

Days two and three will feature the usual diverse range of lectures, workshops, Teacher-to-Teacher and research paper sessions, as well as our usual exhibition and social events.

The conference will draw to a close at 16.00 on Saturday 15 April.

We are continuing to offer a hybrid conference, with full face-to-face Conference supplemented by a slimmed-down online version streamed via our dedicated platform.

The face to face Conference at Sheffield Hallam University will include a programme of over 100 lectures, workshops, teacher-to-teacher sessions, research papers and field visits with social events in the evening and the opportunity to network with other delegates and exhibitors.

It's a highlight of the academic year.

The online version will include a combination of lectures and workshops but the programme will be smaller than the face to face version with roughly half the sessions available.

Visit this page here to find out more or book your place.

If you have put in a proposal for a session as the lead presenter you may want to delay a little to see whether it has been accepted as you will get free day's delegates fees on the day that you are presenting.

A booking portal will open shortly, but there are many hotel options in the city of Sheffield and the venue is very close to the train station.

Free registration is available to students who are members of the GA. 

Student registration does not include lunch, however there are several outlets where you can purchase food. Students who are not members of the GA should join to recieve free entry or book as a student non-member.

More details will emerge over the coming months as the programme begins to take shape. Thanks to all those who took the time to propose a lecture or workshop, or field visit.

2022: Professor Alastair Owens

It has been my pleasure to work with Professor Alastair Owens this last year, who has served as Vice President during my term as President. 

He takes over as President today!

He was very much involved in the GA Conference 2022, and has created the theme of 'Collaborative Geographies' for 2023.

More on that later in this post.

I hadn't met Alastair before he was named as the next VP, and he kindly came up to Ely in a gap in lockdown to have a wander and a chat about what the role might involve, and my own personal involvement with the Geographical Association. We have worked well together and he has been very supportive. He also had an important job to do at the GA Conference in April 2022, and introduced me at my Presidential Lecture amongst other things.

I sent Alastair the questions that I had given to all other Presidents and used them to create the post below. I'm grateful to Alastair for the lovely level of detail that he included here:

On his birth:

I was born in a cottage maternity hospital in a small town called Heswall on the Wirral, Cheshire in 1971. My father was a Church of England curate and we lived in village called Pensby; my mother had given up work as a Biology Teacher to start a family (I am the eldest of four, all born between 1971 and 1977).

On his childhood and school memories:

In 1974, aged three, I moved to a small town called Alsager, near Crewe, in south Cheshire. That was a happy time and I joined St Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Primary School for most of my primary education. It was a memorable school, newly-built and very 1970s with an open plan layout with curtained bays at the sides for ‘floor time’ activity and discussions. Mine and my siblings’ attendance caused a minor local stir as my dad was the vicar of an Anglican church and we attended a Catholic School. It was great though, as we were always given sweets on saints’ days! 

Here's Alastair in 1974 showing his fashion sense in a rather fine tank top.

He said:

I don’t have many geography memories from that time, but there was a short-lived acting career. I played Mowgli in a production of the Jungle Book in 1981 – I am the skinny one wearing a sheepskin rug) – an episode for decolonising, I think – and Michael in Mary Poppins. I think it was my ability to sing in tune that got me these roles!

At that point Alsager was being developed as a commuter town, but still felt quite rural and I enjoyed a ‘free-range’ child, pedalling around on a basic but trusty Raleigh bike (rather uncool compared to most of my friends’ ‘Choppers’), riding through fields and down disused railways with my buddies. I wanted to be a farmer (my best friend had a farm and collecting eggs from the henhouse was a favourite highlight when visiting) or a train driver, but had no inklings about becoming a Professor of Geography at the point.

On his parents and their career and family movements, plus links with politics and 1980s Britain:

My parents were quite political, my dad in particular, and in the 70s he occasionally got labelled ‘the Commie Vicar’; they were both members of CND. In fact it was politics that moved him to a new job in a place called Brinnington in Stockport, near Manchester. The move took place in 1983, just before I went to secondary school. The majority of Brinnington was comprised of a large council estate, constructed in the 1960s. It was (and remains) pretty deprived and there were many associated problems such as ill health, low educational attainment, crime and substance misuse. Of course, it was also a place of great warmth and joy, generosity, talent and care and I suppose that’s where I became very aware of the significance of place, including of the ways that certain places get pathologized and demonised.

We lived in a vicarage (one of the few detached homes in the neighbourhood) right in the middle of Brinnington, next to the church, across from a chippy and between an old people’s home and the Labour Club. This was formative. 

Many people come to visit vicarages, looking for food, shelter, money and protection. 

We were all quite adept as teenagers at handling callers, making cups of tea and sandwiches, often for regulars who you would get to know. But others visits were troubling: a night when I was in on my own, a man forced his way in to headbutt his girlfriend, who I had let in for protection; another man turned up on the doorstep with a stab wound; a trans person came exasperated by continuous taunting and discrimination; and a plastic carrier bag full of fivers and tenners was once handed in (‘don’t ask me any questions') for safe keeping.

While living in Brinnington, my father’s work became part of a politicised religious response to the ‘crisis’ of the British inner city in the 1980s. Following in the trail blazed by publications like Faith in the City (1985) and identifying with a Christian Socialist tradition, he used the church buildings to offer a range of community-centred services, from providing access to cheap food and furniture (donated from wealthier parts of Cheshire and South Manchester), to advice and counselling services, drugs advice and even a needle exchange (it was also moment of concern because of the AIDS pandemic). 

I remember this vividly and becoming a bit of an adjunct to parish life. 

One popular weekly event was prize bingo (mainly prizes of groceries bought from Sainsbury’s), and sometimes I used to have the job of placing the balls on the number tray after the caller (usually my mother) had read them out. 

This experience (living as the son of a clergyman in Brinnington not the bingo balls) became the inspiration for a major research project that I am currently completing and on the back of which I am currently writing a book (with Historian David Geiringer), exploring the response of the Church of England to the crisis of the inner city in Britain from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Alastair told me about his secondary school experiences and early interest in geography:

This life in Brinnington contrasted sharply with my schooling. 

One of the problems when moving to Brinnington was finding a place in a secondary school. It went against my parents’ principles at the time but I ended up going to a private school, Stockport Grammar School, supported by a government funded ‘assisted place’ (a scheme that funded children from low-income families to go to a private school). 

Stockport Grammar provided a wonderful education and many opportunities, offering privileges that contrasted sharply with the lives of people in Brinnington.

Through school I became increasingly interested in History and Geography, inspired by some very good teachers. 

A history teacher – Nicholas Henshall – was exceptional. He encouraged us to read academic texts and get enthused by historiographical argument and debate and instilled rigorous skills of analysis and essay writing techniques (which I use with my own students). 

The Geographers at Stockport Grammar were an eccentric and likeable bunch teaching different specialisms at A Level: the EEC with Mr Martin; Africa with Miss Backhouse; methods and techniques with Mr Barr (a north-American trained spatial scientist and product of the ‘quantitative revolution’); and physical geography with head of department, Mr Durnall (aka ‘the Colonel’), who always wore a white coat!

On his university studies, he faced some difficult decisions:

Undecided whether to study Geography or History, in the end I decided to apply for Geography courses at university. 

I got an offer from Cambridge but didn’t get my grades and wound up at my insurance choice, King’s College London. 

This of course has strong links with many former GA Presidents including Laurence Dudley Stamp.

I moved to London in 1990 and have been there ever since. 

King’s was exciting – buzzing, central, right at the heart of what was going on politically and economically. I persuaded them to let switch from BA Geography to BA Geography and History and made the most of a degree that allowed me to study modules across the University of London. 

At King’s I met historical Geographer David Green – at one time a key supporter of the GA and organiser of the annual conference. 

He was my tutor and dissertation supervisor and we’ve been good friends and collaborators ever since.

He’s the reason I ended up an academic Geographer, a model mentor and support, who I have learnt a great deal from. I was taught by several other inspiring geographers in London – Latin Americanist Linda Newson, Political Geographer Keith Hoggart, Cultural Geographer Peter Jackson, and Historical Geographer Richard Dennis. 

But London itself was as much a (historical)-geographical education as the degree course. 

I started out in student digs in Denmark Hill, before spending a year in a grotty student house in Peckham. In the final year, thanks to the early 1990s housing crisis, we lived in a cheap but (fairly) luxury flat on the Thames on the Isle of Dogs. My bedroom overlooked the river.

Alastair pictured in 1993 as a student. I had very similar glasses at the time.

Alastair moved on to telling me about his work and career to date:

I graduated in 1993 fairly convinced that I wanted to do a PhD, but failed to win funding to start straight away. Over the next year I had two jobs: working for a publishing company producing an encyclopaedia with ‘experts’ from the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, and working as a Research Assistant for David Green at King’s on a project looking at the geography of wealth and inequality in Victorian London.

Victorian London is still a major interest and the focus of the specialist third year course I teach in my current job.

This set the scene for a PhD that I started in 1994 at what was then Queen Mary and Westfield College, over in East London. 

There I was supervised by Geographers Humphrey Southall and Miles Ogborn and undertook research on families, wealth and inheritance in the nineteenth century. 

The PhD was funded through a Teaching Assistant position in the Department of Geography at Queen Mary where I ran tutorial and seminars for undergraduate students and taught on fieldtrips. It was wonderful ‘on the job’ training and Queen Mary offered a warm and supportive working environment, with many inspiring colleagues (and friends of the GA) such as Ray Hall and Roger Lee.

Soon after starting at Queen Mary, in 1995 I moved to Hackney and have lived within a few hundred yards of the place I first rented ever since. 

Hackney is, in my view, the best place on the planet and an education in itself. 

Alastair's Twitter account is @AlastairHackney which reflects this love of the place.

From singing in a community choir to having various voluntary and community roles, I feel deeply embedded in the place. The richness and diversity of experience in Hackney is a constant geographical inspiration. It is also grounding; intellectual flights of fancy only go so far in a place as diverse, complex and unequal as Hackney; it demands a more immediate response.

I was lucky enough to get a job as soon as my PhD funding came to an end in 1998 (I hadn’t actually finished the thesis) and moved to what was then the University of Luton as a Lecturer in Human Geography. It was a small Department and there were only really two of us who taught human geography, so I quickly developed a wide-ranging teaching portfolio. Aside from the longish commute, it was for most of the time a happy institution in which to begin a career and I found Luton as a place very interesting – it felt to me like a bit of the North in the South East! With the different priorities of a ‘new’ university I got diverted from some of my core historical research interests to undertake collaborative projects with university colleagues working in the area of local healthcare provision. 

A particularly successful qualitative research project explored the palliative care needs of South Asian people living in Luton, off the back of which we published a number of articles and at that point I nearly switched my academic focus to work in health and social care services research. 

This was in part triggered by the decision to close the department I was working in (the Department of Environment, Geography and Geology) due to low student recruitment; redundancy or a lectureship in health and social care were my options. It was a painful time for many of my colleagues who had been at Luton for many years. 

In the end I took the former option as I was offered a temporary job back at Queen Mary.

Queen Mary, like Hackney is an important place for Alastair:

I returned to Queen Mary in 2001 and have been there ever since. 

In the early years – as has become the norm in HE – I got by on a number of short-term contracts filling temporary positions, but applied for and got a permanent post in Human Geography in 2005. 

Queen Mary has been a wonderful place to develop a career. Deeply rooted in its East London location, but global in its outlook and high in academic aspirations, it has often felt a privilege to be part of its diverse community. 

It has a very open intellectual culture where I have been free to work across disciplines and with people and organisations outside of the university. 

I’ve worked alongside and with many remarkable geographers at Queen Mary – Alison Blunt, Kavita Datta, Jon May, Miles Ogborn, Catherine Nash, Kate Amis, Marta Timoncini (to name just a few) – but perhaps the thing that has really made my career has been the many collaborations that I have been able to sustain outside of the university, especially with museum, heritage and community organisations. 

Centred around historical research interests spanning the period from the 1800 to the present, and often concerned with the historical geographies of London, these collaborations have included work with: Museum of London Archaeology, the Bank of England, the V&A Museum of Childhood, Spitalfields Music and many more and brought many wonderful people to work with me as PhD students. 

A particularly rewarding and long-lasting series of collaborations – usually with my colleague Alison Blunt – has been with the Museum of the Home (in Shoreditch), where, often following Alison’s discipline-leading interest in ‘geographies of home’, we have worked together to explore aspects of the domestic life and experience in the past and the present (including our current project with geographers Georgina Endfield and Kathy Burrell at the University of Liverpool on COVID-19 and experiences of domestic life).

So, what is Alastair's current role?

I was made Professor of Historical Geography at Queen Mary in 2016 and was in that role and Head of the School of Geography at Queen Mary when I became Vice President of the GA. 

I have since finished my term as Head of School, but am very pleased to be bringing an East London perspective to the GA, not least as we’ve had an active local branch of the GA supported by the Queen Mary and the East London Geography Hub (organised by Vice President elect Denise Freeman).

Alastair is also a keen runner. Here he is taking part in the 2022 Hackney Half Marathon.

What is Alastair's Presidential theme?

My theme is ‘Collaborative Geographies’. 

I chose it for a number of reasons. 

First (and rather indulgently), my own career has often been about collaboration – with my colleagues, with my students and with people and organisations outside of my university – it remains one of the most enjoyable aspects of what I do. 

Second, I think geographers are good collaborators. 

We are used to working together and can see the world from multiple perspectives. 

Collaborating is at the heart of geographical learning – in classrooms and in the field. But I also think collaboration is important as method and as a political strategy. In some political quarters there is a belief that collaboration, co-operation and working together with and across our differences is a bad thing. I profoundly disagree. There are many challenges within and beyond geography where I think collaboration – with its pleasures but also its challenges, its requirement to listen, adapt and compromise – is key to achieving better geographical education, a better professional geographical community, and a better world. 

I hope this can be explored in my presidential year and, as a framework, put to good use in relation to some of our current preoccupations and challenges, such as efforts to decolonise and make more inclusive geographical understanding, education and (professional) practice.

And finally, Alastair explained what the GA means to him:

I have long been inspired by the GA and have worked with geographical educators outside of universities since the very start of my own career as a Geographer. 

We should be working together and learning from one another, across, specialisms, areas of expertise and phases, I think. 

I began to work more with the GA after I sat on the A Level Content Advisory Board (back in 2014), where along with a team of academics, teachers and geography professionals, we devised the content for the A Level qualification that has been taught since 2016. 

My particular area of contribution related to the ‘Changing Places’ theme (loved and loathed in equal measure, I hear) - I love it - and I have contributed to various professional development programmes (associated with the GA and with organisations beyond the GA) relating to that theme ever since. 

I also co-wrote a textbook for the GA’s Top Spec series with Simon Oakes and Emma Rawlings-Smith entitled Changing Places. 

Since becoming Vice President, I have been involved in a range of other things, including the Diversity and Inclusion Group.

Best of luck to Alastair for his Presidential year ahead.

All images copyright Alastair Owens.

GA Presidency Month 1: September 2021

I've now completed the first month of my year as President of the GA, and it's been an interesting and very busy one, along with the return to school for another academic year with new groups and a new timetable to get used to along the way. I can see why it's been a while since we had a teacher as GA President, but that's not to say we shouldn't have another one asap, following on from the tenure of Alastair Owens for 2022-23. 

I plan to post an update here at the end of each of the 12 months so you can see what I get up to, and the range of activity that a President is involved in.

I received an article that I had written for Routes Journal back from the peer reviewers with some comments on changes to make ahead of publication in early 2022. This is one job I've been looking at. The article explores the research that I did for the GA Presidents blog over the last two and a half years.

Given my theme of everyday geographies there's certainly been something to do everyday: emails to answer, queries to answer and conversations with many of the GA's staff at Solly Street - the HQ in Sheffield. I've had messages and some lovely messages via Twitter DMs, email, Facebook, WhatsApp and various other means.

The first week involved a field trip with Year 4 students to the Norfolk coast - a great day and a reminder of the value of fieldwork. 2022 will see our planned National Fieldwork Week which I am involved in. Look out for more on this in the GA News for Autumn 2021.

There was also the hosting of a one hour session on COP26 with a range of guest speakers - see earlier on LivingGeography for all the links to the presentations. Thanks to all those who presented, including former GA colleague Paula Owens who closed the event.

The second week started with the release of the results of the moderation of applications for a number of funding opportunities that the GA offers. Some of these are for members of our volunteer groups, others are for everyone.

There have been discussions and emails and Zooms around a number of projects and areas:

- the GA's Governance Working Group and smaller groups

- the Geographers' Gaze project to open up the archives a little, with former President Peter Fox involved

- a publication I'm working on for release in 2022 which has been much changed from the original format and now requires a little reworking

- items for GA journals now and in future issues - my Webwatch column for January 2022 is already underway, for example along with a piece for Primary Geography 

- National Fieldwork Week planning and thinking

In the third week, focus moved to Conference Planning, and Conference 2022. This is a huge undertaking and there were lengthy meetings with the whole Planning Board to look at the sessions which had been submitted - well over 100 - along with those who I had personally invited. It was the first look at the overall possible format, and some planning ahead for the hybrid conference. Isabel and Becky are pulling things together for another chat in a week's time.

I'm really looking forward to letting people know some of the exciting people we have presenting at the event.

I also completed a presentation slide deck for an education conference in Turkey at which I am an invited speaker, so that it could be sent for translating ahead of the event - the theme is 'Everyday Geographies' and I'm also mentioning my book 'Why Study Geography?' which has been reviewed in RIGEO recently and also elsewhere. I also continued to work on my slide deck for the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers' Conference next month on the theme of 'rewilding'.

We traditionally exchange fraternal greetings at our respective conferences and I've been attending regularly since 2004. 

Alongside that I also planned a 3 days ERASMUS+ meeting to take place at my school and worked on some of the resources that are required for it. This will be a chance to welcome international colleagues for the first time in over two years. We had Zoom meetings for the 2 projects. Plenty about those on LivingGeography.

There was also a meeting of the GA's Education Group. This is the main group that supports the Governing Body and staff at HQ with key thinking. It is chaired by the President and this involved rather a lot of preparation and reading and knowledge of the ByLaws and other aspects of the GA's operation. I know almost every member having visited their groups or worked with them in some way.

The final week included further discussions over conference and funding, and follow ups from the EG meeting. There was also a chat with Olwen Lintern-Smyth: Chair of the GA's Trustees.

I ended today by submitting an exciting proposal form for an international conference in 2022, connected with an important GA initiative that is currently underway.

Preparations are also being made for our next meeting of the GA's Governing Body. This will occupy some time in tomorrow's meeting, which I shall tell you all about at the end of October when I share my month 2 update. The full list of the Governing Body is in GA Magazine. 

I'll also start the 2nd month by hosting and presenting at an eConference for Early Career Teachers all day on Saturday, and re-recording a bit of audio for my involvement in a well known Geography podcast to be released next month.

If you think that the Presidential for 2023-4 might be you, check out the opportunity here and in the latest GA News. Also feel free to get in touch - I've had a few conversations in that area too.

1945 GA Conference

I am grateful to Alastair Owens, who will be GA President for 2022-3 as many readers will know, for finding and sharing images of this programme from the 1945 GA Conference which he came across earlier.

As shown here, the 1944 conference had had to be cancelled due to falling bombs...

The 1945 Conference was the first for a while. Thomas Cotterill Warrington was the President: he served from 1942-5 so was the last President to serve more than a year. The Conference was held at the City Literary Institute in Holborn, London.

The conference was held in early January, as they used to be before the move to April.

There are some sessions which sound really fascinating, and I would love to have been there... Tea in the refectory sounds fun too.

There are some familiar names there as well, many of whom have featured on the blog already.

The Conference was opened with a lecture on 'Post-War Europe' by Sir Walter Layton.
He was an economist, and lectured at Trinity College.

The lecture is available here, as it was published in a future issue of 'Geography' later that year:

Layton, Walter. “THE FUTURE OF EUROPE.” Geography, vol. 30, no. 2, 1945, pp. 44–50. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40563426. Accessed 15 May 2021.

This was followed by a lecture on fruit growing from Raymond 'Bush'.

At 2pm a Symposium featured a range of other future GA Presidents: Leonard Sydney Suggate and Leonard Brooks (who would both become President in the 1950s) which was chaired by the legendary James Fairgrieve. 

The first day ended with a session on the Geography of Poland, actively involved in the conflict that had just ended.

Text from Wikipedia:

Equally the 2nd day started with a session which probably referred back to recent military service, with Brigadier Ralph A Bagnold on the sand dune of N E Africa. He had already made a crossing of the Libyan Desert in the 1930s. During the Second World War, he was a soldier in the British Army, in which he founded the behind-the-lines reconnaissance, espionage and raiding unit that was named the "Long Range Desert Group", serving as its first commanding officer in the North Africa Campaign.

After the war Bagnold continued make significant contributions to the understanding of desert terrain such as sand dunes, ripples and sheets. He developed the dimensionless "Bagnold number" and "Bagnold formula" for characterising sand flow, and also proposed a model for "singing sands". In 1971 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London, and in 1981 the David Linton Award of the British Geomorphological Research Group (named after another former GA President). He lived to the age of 94.

The session on the Future of Primary Geography featured Olive Garnett (see her entry) and also Mrs. Katz (who got a mention in my Charney Primary Geography conference presentation as she chaired the Primary committee when it launched. It was chaired by G J Cons, who had been due to be the President in 1961 but sadly died in 1960.

Here is part of the contribution of Olive Garnett.

“GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION. Annual Conference Discussions on the Future for Geography.” Geography, vol. 30, no. 2, 1945, pp. 50–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40563427. Accessed 15 May 2021.

The session on the Future of Secondary Geography had some interesting participants.

“GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION. Annual Conference Discussions on the Future for Geography.” Geography, vol. 30, no. 2, 1945, pp. 50–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40563427. Accessed 15 May 2021.

I looked back at 'Geography' to try to find some outcomes from this conference in the journal and found the report of the conference and links to some of the lectures:

Thomas Cotterill Warrington was also asked to be President for another year at the end of the conference in the business meeting.

References

Wikipedia entry on Sir Walter Layton:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Layton,_1st_Baron_Layton

Image Wikimedia

Raymond Bush article:

Bush, Raymond. “FROST AND THE FRUITGROWER.” Geography, vol. 30, no. 3, 1945, pp. 80–86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40563438. Accessed 14 May 2021.

Brigadier Ralph Bagnold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bagnold

Image Wikimedia

“GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1944.” Geography, vol. 30, no. 1, 1945, pp. 18–19. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40562425. Accessed 15 May 2021.


Thanks to Alastair Owens for the images. Hopefully more documents like this will come to life when I can next get to Solly Street and get into the archive.