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I wrote this piece in remembrance of my first month as an ECT1 and a celebration of the ‘spookiest’ months of the year. I come to geography not as a teacher first but as a geographer. My maps were never confined to textbooks; they traced coastlines, railway lines, and the streets of coastal towns layered
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After a compelling talk by Dan Raven-Ellison at the University of Exeter, I’ve been thinking deeply about how we understand, and teach, geography. As a geographer, explorer, and founder of several pioneering campaigns, Dan encouraged us to see the landscape not just as something to observe, but something to reimagine. His video “100 Seconds of
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Railway transport revolutionised the social and economic status of Britain. Britain transformed the industry of rail with innovation of passenger trains and iron rails, opening the country to a new wave of national travel and trade. The first passenger line train was opened in 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester railway (UK parliament, no date), with
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