ABSTRACT
In recent years the status of geography has undergone a great change in Britain. The pioneer work of such outstanding figures as the late Sir Halford Mackinder, the late Professor H. J. Herbertson, as well as the solid foundation laid by G. G. Chisholm. L. W. Lyde, and Marion Newbigin, had resulted in the recognition of geography as a subject worthy of University study in London, Oxford, and Edinburgh amongst the Universities of the British Isles. It was the First World War, with its clear lessons of the rapidly approaching unity of the world, which underlined the widespread ignorance of the world and its peoples amongst those who by ability and education had risen to positions of leadership. Within a few years of 1918 University Schools of Geography, usually of an Honours standard, had been established in nearly every British University. Even so the majority of those who read geography in the Universities did so as part of their training as prospective teachers.
