Welcome to Daryl and Katie

One of the GA's great contributions to the geography teaching community is the journals that are published three times a year. 

The Autumn 2024 issues are appearing and will be on their way to subscribers shortly.

I’m very happy to share that I have joined the Editorial Board for Teaching Geography @The_GA !

A big thank you to Christine Winter for encouraging my application and @RichardBustin and the editorial team for accepting me.

To submit an article: https://t.co/rPOrZnruLZ pic.twitter.com/jlWZbJWKuL

— DSinclairTeaches (@dsinclair17) September 26, 2024

Also joining is Katie Richardson, Head of Geography at Weald of Kent Grammar School. 

Many thanks to Justin Woolliscroft for his many years of services on the board. A great colleague and geographer... 

1951: Hull Spring Conference #2

Thanks to Justin Woolliscroft once again for these documents from the programme for the 1951 Spring Conference held at the University of Hull.
The conference was addressed by Professor Frank Debenham, GA President for 1952 who accompanied Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, and had his own post on the blog. His lecture was not on the Antarctic, but on 'Livingstone's Africa and future development". There was a choice of field excursions.

There was a lecture on the East Riding by G De Boer from the University, and also a talk by 'EGB': E G Bowen, who was to become the GA President in 1962. A lecture on the Hull Ports followed afternoon tea. Those who got up early could go and see fish being landed at the docks as long as they were wearing "non skid footwear and an old Mackintosh".

1951 Spring Conference #1

The GA's 1951 Spring Conference was held in Hull in April 1951

Justin Woolliscroft very kindly sent me some images of the programme which he found for me on his visit to the Hull. There were places for 150 delegates. Price was £4 including a river cruise and a reception by the Lord Mayor. More to come tomorrow.

Thanks to Justin Woolliscroft

Justin very kindly recently visited the Hull History Centre for me after I asked for some help tracking down an image of W Vincent Tidswell, who was the PGCE tutor at Hull University, and was my PGCE tutor during 1986-7 when I trained as a teacher.
A post on Vincent has been written for posting when I get to the 1980s on the blog. He was very much involved with the GA it emerges.

There were also some GA Presidential connections with Hull University of course: Patmore and Cooper, of which more to come later as well.

Justin was a colleague at the GA for some years, and we worked in the same office when he came in to work on the Quality Mark and other related matters. He has been working as the PGCE tutor at the University for quite a few years now.

A few posts from what Justin found will follow over the next few days.

And if anyone has any pictures of Vincent Tidswell please get in touch.