Sinking Cities is a new resource from the RGS-IBG schools team. It talks about the threats facing a number of cities from the extraction of groundwater, rising sea levels and other factors. Worth checking out this, and the other resources from the Education team ..read more

A new podcast for the Bank Holiday weekend. ?☕️??️Kit Marie is joined by @hermionemiao, for a special mash-up between @CoffeeGeogPod and 'Mapping Inspirational Women' @GeogEdu4! You can *watch* this discussion between Hermione and Kit Marie over on YouTube! https://t.co/HsT0QM9GrG or head over to https://t.co/SDkQP39s7g pic.twitter.com/tlXFZqedK0 — Coffee & Geography (@CoffeeGeogPod) May 4, 2024 ..read more

This was another one of those things that I came across via a circuitous route. Read the article here. Duffy, A. (2019), “Two-way street: how smartphones and the social web impact the traveller’s liminal gaze”, Mobile Media and Communication, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 60-75, doi: 10.1177/2050157918772858. Read more on this in a journal article here. It explores how smartphones change the way that travellers experience places. This is worth considering with students ..read more

 May the Fourth, and the Ordnance Survey has created a map of locations where Star Wars scenes were filmed ..read more

Another milestone has just been passed on this blog. I've just passed SEVEN MILLION page views which is quite excessive really... Thanks for visiting and reading. It's taken two and a half years to add the last million, which is about par for the course ..read more

Pierre Moerlen (23 October 1952, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 3 May 2005) I had the privilege of seeing Pierre play live several times with Mike Oldfield.... a superb musician with Gong, PMG and Tribute along with other bands ..read more

George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were last seen heading towards the summit of Mount Everest on the 8th of June 2024. The Centenary of this event has spawned a lot of books and other events. I saw Mick Conefrey's book 'Fallen' in Topping Books Ely today - it is a biography of Mallory. The author is talking about how he used the RGS archives to write his book. It's free for RGS Members. Details of the lecture are here ..read more

A new version of the classic board game 'Catan' is coming out soon. Various websites give different dates. It can be pre-ordered from a number of places. I'm definitely interested in this... It’s the 21st Century and Catan is at a crossroads. Long gone is the agrarian society of the island’s Viking ancestors. Today’s Catanians need energy to keep society moving and growing, but pollution is wreaking havoc on the island. You must decide: Invest in clean energy resources or opt for cheaper fossil fuels, potentially causing disastrous effects for the island? CATAN – New Energies is a brand ne ..read more

I've been connected with the RGS-IBG for quite a number of years in various ways. In 2007 I became a Fellow of the RGS and Chartered Geographer (Teacher) and have been ever since. In 2008, I was awarded their Ordnance Survey Award for excellence in Secondary Geography Teaching. This was a proud moment and came at the culmination (I thought) of my teaching career as I was joining the Geographical Association and stepping out of the classroom. I didn't realise I'd be back again within five years. I had also spoken at the RGS as part of a student day - with Alastair Owens actually - although I o ..read more

I'm still hopeful that at some point the UK will be able to rejoin the ERASMUS project In the meantime, I'm still quite proud of these lesson blueprints I created for the D3 project,which was one of my final (and maybe THE final ..read more