The use of statistics in the teaching of geography

Wallis, B. C.

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“…At Hinks' suggestion, geography teacher B. C. Wallis presented work on questions of Hungary's mapping that had arisen during the compilation of the 1:1 million map of Europe underway in the RGS. Wallis was an advocate of statistical teaching and illustration within geography and cartography (Wallis, 1911). As Wallis stated, and Hinks came to realise, 'Hungary probably presents the greatest difficulty to the map-maker since there are no less than seven different nationalities under Hungarian rule' (Wallis, 1916, p. 177).…”

Section: British Geographical Interests In Hungary Before Trianonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trianon and its aftermath: British geography and the ‘dismemberment’ of Hungary,c.1915-c.1922

Győri

Withers

2019

Scottish Geographical Journal

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In the wake of World War I, geographers helped advise national delegations at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose purpose was to delimit Europe's new boundaries. The paper examines the role played by British geographers, specifically Alan Ogilvie and the British geographical delegation, in the Treaty of Trianon (1920) which greatly reduced Hungary's territorial extent. Attention is paid to contemporary published work on the new Europe, particularly Marion Newbigin's Aftermath: A Geographical Study of the Peace Terms and Ogilvie's Boundary Settlement (1922). Assessment of manuscript diaries and correspondence reveals the complex circumstances faced by geographers engaged in peace work. The work of different practitionersin the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), over how national boundaries should be arrived at (on either ethnic or physiographic grounds)-was hindered by inadequate map provision from British geographical institutions. This led Ogilvie to propose a new geographical body for Britain at a time when the RGS was facing criticism and when the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, not the RGS, provided the forum for discussion of the new postwar Europe.

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Section: British Geographical Interests In Hungary Before Trianonmentioning

confidence: 99%