May 24: YouTube

YouTube is of course a valuable tool for geographers, and indeed teachers of any subject. Despite the growth of a number of other streaming services, YouTube remains a daily experience for many.

Check out this amazing archive film of Hull for example, taken at around the time when I was completing my PGCE in the city in 1986.

It shows how any street in any city is a palimpsest, a series of layers which are over written and form the basics of a place.


At the time I did my PGCE and started teaching this guy was the Geography person of choice for school videos...

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