125 years of the Geographical Association

This article provides an overview of our disciplinary history on the occasion of the Geographical Association's 125-year anniversary. It accepts that a definitive and comprehensive disciplinary history cannot be written, covering human and physical geography, conceptual and methodological developments, key figures and significant moments, also paying adequate attention to the changing intellectual environment and wider social context. Instead, the article is loosely chronological in structure, noting continuities and discontinuities between past and present, and raising questions about the kind of history we need in order to reflect critically on the past and to inform the Association's future trajectory.