Sir Lawrence Dudley Stamp: (1898-1966) The chief architect of a pioneering land-use survey of Britain, Dudley Stamp was also the author of several popular geography textbooks.(Late Great Geographers #42)
...London BA in Geography, gaining...geology and geography at the University...of social geography there in...of applied geography. For what...Survey of Great Britain, undertaken...ground-breaking Applied Geography. What was...Survey of Great Britain changed the...
April 1, 2004; Geographical
Maps that changed the shape of Great Britain: geography and maps are as inseparable as history and dates. Over the past year, Nicholas Crane has been working on Mapman, an eight-part BBC2 television series that explores 'masterpiece maps' of Britain. Part one of his exclusive feature for Geographical takes us from the Middle Ages to a 17th-century coastal chart.(Maps Of Britain Part 1)
The first great flowering of British cartography...measured, geographies. As Britain was surveyed over the following...revealed how and why these great works came to be created...remarkable maps that brought Britain into the modern age. One of the most enigmatic maps of Britain was drawn more ...
October 1, 2004; Geographical
Archaeology At The North-east Anatolian Frontier, vol.1, An Historical Geography And A Field Survey of the Bayburt Province .(GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, BALKANS, FORMER USSR)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
...at the north-east Anatolian frontier, I; an historical geography and a field survey of the Bayburt Province. Sagona, Antonio...of the excavation, including an essay on the historical geography; a lengthy discussion of the textual sources about Bayburt...
August 1, 2005; Reference & Research Book News
Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947): an author, politician and explorer, Halford Mackinder helped to put geography on the national stage in Britain.(Late Great Geographers #47)(Biography)
...travel and exploration proved too great and he chose to study geography instead. Why is he famous? A champion of geography throughout his life, Mackinder...helped found the Oxford School of Geography, and was also involved in founding...
September 1, 2004; Geographical
Constructing the Nation: Eighteenth-Century Geographies for Children.(18th Century Britain portrayed through geography books)(Critical Essay)
Because books of geography construct imaginative topographies...demonstrate the ways that Britain imagined itself--in contrast...This is so in part because geography itself, while claiming to...account. To some extent, then, geography books function like travel...texts, eighteenth-century ...
June 1, 2001; Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Burgers for Britain: a cultural geography of McDonald's UK.
The geography of food has recently come...has this approach been in Britain, which has a special relationship...over a thousand outlets in Britain and is a familiar part...the Americanization of Britain. INTRODUCTION Tourists...research area in cultural geography today (see for ...
March 22, 2005; Journal of Cultural Geography
Ordnance Survey announces Britain's biggest geography giveaway; Scheme wins praise from Schools Minister.
...Survey announces Britain's biggest geography giveaway; Scheme...year-old in Great Britain from the start...children across Britain discover the...citizenship and geography. Vanessa Lawrence...Ordnance Survey is Great Britain's national mapping...
March 23, 2004; M2 Presswire
THE REAL NORTHERN BRITAIN; TEENAGE FANCLUB NOT AFRAID TO KNOCK BRITPOP GEOGRAPHY.(L.A. LIFE)
...called ``Songs From Northern Britain.'' The joke is a little...occupy the northern half of Great Britain, nobody would dub Scotland Northern Britain unless they were trying...on ``Songs From Northern Britain'' (Columbia), due in stores...
July 18, 1997; Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
UW-Eau Claire's Harris follows great uncle as Rhodes scholar; The geography major feels it is important to live up to his name
...wishes of his namesake and great uncle was that he become...the honor last weekend. The great uncle, Chauncy D. Harris...Harris said. The student's great-grandfather, Franklin S...graduate has been a history and geography major at UW-Eau Claire, has...study at Oxford University in Great ...
November 25, 2004; Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
Southwest Coast Path: this year, Britain's longest waymarked trail celebrates its 25th birthday. At 1,015 kilometres, this is the most dramatic, continuous coastal promenade in Europe, with bucketloads of scenery and sufficient history and geography to keep you locked in a library for years afterwards.
...foreshore below the abandoned lime kiln of Mouth Mill to the great spire of Blackchurch Rock, pierced through in two places by...South West Coast Path is included in Lonely Planet's Walking in Britain, 11.99 [pounds sterling] maps The entire route is covered by...
June 1, 2003; Geographical
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