Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2017 Nicholas Crane's Presidential Address to the RGS-IBG AGM, as spoken on 5 June 2017

In his second address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane illustrated the role geography can play in a shared, popular narrative. He argued that we should consider devoting more attention to promoting accessible geographical narratives with their long-term emphases on people, places and environment, and less attention to historical narratives with their emphases on documented events limited to the last couple of thousand years.