Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Introduction, Hayden Lorimer (Reader in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK) and Charles W. J. Withers (Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK) 1. Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK) 2. Emmanuel de Margerie (1862-1953), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK) 3. Pierre Monbeig (1908-1987), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK) 4. Charles Robequain (1897-1963), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK) 5. Richard Lawton (1925-2010), Colin Pooley (Professor of Social and Historical Geography at Lancaster University, UK) 6. William John Talbot (1908-1995), Michael E. Meadows (Head of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa) 7. Antonín Strnad (1746-1799), Jan Kalvoda, Professor of Physical Geography (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) and Eva Novotná (Director of the Map Collection at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) 8. Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791-1858), Elizabeth Baigent, Reader in the History of Geography (University of Oxford, UK)