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Cover reveal for book #44

on September 12, 2026

Alex Standish Author Bloomsbury Book CAR Charlotte Fulham Curriculum Curriculum Making Editing Fawcett Fellowship Fiona Sheriff Giordano Battistel Joanne Clarke Julia Fleet Kathryn McGrath Writing

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AI and place making

on September 12, 2026

AI Artificial Intelligence Case Studies Detailed Specific Examples DSEs Emma Rawlings Smith GA Blog Michelle Grafagnino Place Sense of Place

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Natech

on September 10, 2026

Disaster Preparedness Disaster Relief Disaster Risk Reduction Disasters Ilan Kelman Natech Nepal Nepal-Tibet Floods 2026 Tibet UNDRR

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Worldly Wednesdays #69: Welcome back

on September 09, 2026

Blogging Conference CPD Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Fieldwork Mission:Explore Projects Talks University of Southampton Worldly Wednesdays

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Lucy Powell MP in the Observer

on September 09, 2026

Bridget Phillipson Capabilities Curriculum and Assessment Review Curriculum Review GCSE Government Lucy Powell Michael Gove Politics Skills The Observer

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Thought for the Day

on September 09, 2026

Charity Coastal Communities Norfolk RNLI Saving lives

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The Reith Lectures 2027 - Robert MacFarlane

on September 09, 2026

#gcsenaturalhistory Air BBC CPD Earth Fire Humans and Nature Reith Lectures Robert MacFarlane Talks Water

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Pinlight

on September 09, 2026

Games GeoGuessr Images Location Location games Mapcrunch Pinlight Street View

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Topical Tuesdays #1: Equal Earth

on September 08, 2026

Equal Earth Map Thoughtful Thursdays Topical Tuesdays UN United Nations Worldly Wednesdays

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Any Human Ever - an interesting experiment

on September 07, 2026

AI Any Human Ever Artificial Intelligence Connections Data Visualisation Dollar Street Factfulness Fairness Global Matt Podbury People Substack

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North Norfolk Literature and Landscape Festival - October 2nd-4th

on September 07, 2026

Art CPD Exhibitions Fred Ingrams Geoff Dyer Literature Literature and Landscape Festival Nicholas Crane Norfolk North Norfolk Talks Wells next the Sea

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Equal Earth Projection - adopted by the UN

on September 06, 2026

Africa Classrooms Equal Earth Map Geopolitics James Cheshire Map Projections Mercator UN United Nations

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School Climate Action Plan

on September 06, 2026

Climate Action Plan Curriculum Curriculum and Assessment Review King's Ely Sustainability

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'Trade World' - explaining the world

on September 04, 2026

Ed Conway Geography of my Stuff Global Globalisation Stuff Trade World

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Geography Today - an RGS School Member benefit

on September 02, 2026

Geography Review Geography Today Journals Membership RGS RGS Members RGS Schools Student Membership

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Worldview Upgrader Course

on September 02, 2026

Anna Rosling Ronnlund Course. Resource CPD Factfulness Gapminder Positive Geographies SDGs Worldview Upgrader

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Climate Literacy across the Curriculum

on September 02, 2026

Climate Climate Literacy CPD Hachette Online courses Professor Sylvia Knight RMetS Royal Meteorological Society

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Planned obsolescence: Football shirts

on September 02, 2026

Clothing Football Football shirts Geography of my Stuff Sport Stuff Sustainability

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SAGT Conference 2027

on September 02, 2026

Chloe Searl Conferences CPD Education Scotland Fieldwork Glasgow Lynne Robertson Martin McKay SAGT SAGT Conference Scotland

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New Storm Names

on September 01, 2026

Met Office Named Storms Shaun the Sheep Storm names

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2026

September

16: RGS East Anglia Committee meeting & ONS Webinar

20: Jon Anderson, London Palladium

22: Hunstanton Fieldtrip

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26: Public Service Broadcasting - Alexandra Palace

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9: Borge Ousland - RGS - TBC

24: RGS Webinar

25: RGS 'A' level Study Day or Rebecca Stephens - TBC

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Dec

5: International Geography Training - online - iGCSE - with Matt Podbury

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Jan

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