ABSTRACT
It is difficult to produce a consensus view of progress within an academic sub-discipline. Even the most fundamental of premisses regarding the concept of “progress” and the nature of the sub-discipline or field of inquiry are likely to be disputed, and the matter is further complicated by the social, institutional, linguistic and cultural contexts of the reviewer. What follows, therefore, is a highly personal, perhaps even idiosyncratic, overview of what appear to have been some of the more interesting developments in the theory and methodology of historical geography over a period of about a decade, that is from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
