Robert J. Mayhew

Robert Mayhew is Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History at the University of Bristol. He was educated at the University of Oxford and held a Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are in the history of geographical thought from antiquity to the present and in the intellectual history of our attitudes to the earth. He is a regular writer for the Times Higher Education in the UK and has also written for BBC History Magazine and History Today.