Joseph Acton Morris

[3] Morris joined The Latymer School, Edmonton, in 1926 when an economics course was added to the sixth form syllabus.

He was recruited by then headmaster Richard Ashworth and taught subjects from the Lancashire cotton industry to the Indian monsoon.

Morris was the author with Irene Richards, and George Taylor as general editor, of the Sketch-map Histories series which appeared in multiple volumes and editions from the 1930s to the 1970s.

[4] The final volume in the series, a junior sketch-map economic history of Britain, was criticised in review for being derived from out of date elementary textbooks and being ignorant of developments in the field of economic history in the 35 years prior to its publication.

[5] In 1934, he read a paper to the Congrès Internationale de Géographie at Warsaw on the Wordsworthian idea of the beneficial influence of close contact with nature.