The HGRG is committed to the following goals, which form our Mission Statement:

1. The HGRG aims to initiate and foster research in the field of Historical Geography; to promote discussion by means of meetings and conferences; to further co-operation between cognate disciplines and organisations; and to effect the publication of monographs, collected papers and discussion materials.
2. The HGRG will provide contributions to financial support for conference organisation and for attendance by its members at such gatherings. It will do so through a mix of direct grant-in-aid paid directly to conference organisers and for postgraduates to attend conferences, and loans for organisational or other conference-related purposes.
3. HGRG will seek to provide opportunities for postgraduate students through financial support for conference attendance and through organising conferences and other gatherings in which postgraduate students will be the principal participants and beneficiaries. At present these aims are met in the following ways:

• Tri-annual Newsletter and website management. The Group publishes three issues of its newsletter every year updating members on activities and the workings of the Group. All the information in the newsletter can be found on this website by following the relevant links.
• Historical Geography Research Series Publications (39 issues published since 1979) which are designed to provide scholars with an outlet for extended essays of an interpretative or conceptual nature that make a substantive contribution to some aspect of the subject, critical reviews of the literature on a major problem, and commentaries on relevant sources. One or two numbers are produced annually.
• Annual HGRG and CUP Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.
  
• Annual Undergraduate and Postgraduate Conference
  
• Co-ordination of RGS-IBG Annual conference sessions.
  
• Conference and Postgraduate Grant Schemes.
  
• Publication of Completed Doctoral Thesis Abstracts.
  
• Co-ordinate bids for RSG-IBG funds.

Membership is open to all those who subscribe to these aims.