Historical geography
Historical geography is a sub-discipline of human geography concerned with the geographies of the past and with the influence of the past in shaping the geographies of the present and the future. While the work in a similar vein by the AnnalesSchool is seen as a form of French history, in Britain historical geography as pioneered by H. C. Darby emerged as a distinctly geographical discipline, concerned with landscape formation and evolution. Since the 1960s the discipline has arguably become more historical, with the the influence of successive ideas from economic, social and cultural history.
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- Historians:
- Beresford, Maurice
Darby, Henry Clifford
Hoskins, William George - Institutions:
- Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
- Themes:
- Annales school
Demographic history
Economic history
Environmental history
Social history
