"Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation": the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Geography
Abstract
Predicting the climate of the future and determining how different communities might be affected by and respond to climate change has become an issue of global importance. There is growing concern over the impacts of interannual climate variability and anomalous and 'extreme' weather events such as droughts, floods, storm events and unusually high or low temperatures. While social and economic systems have generally evolved to accommodate some deviations from 'normal' weather conditions, this is rarely true of extremes. For this reason, such events can have the greatest and most immediate social and economic impact of all climate changes.
Yet extreme weather events are as much social texts as material occurrences - as well as being biophysical events, they are also socially and culturally constructed and interpreted. Geographical context influences how individuals and communities experience the natural world. Different regional circumstances, particular physical conditions, an area's social and economic activities and embedded cultural knowledges, norms, values, practices and infrastructures all affect community experiences, reactions and responses to extreme weather. The impact of extreme weather may even vary between individuals, depending on a multitude of factors, which are in turn informed by cultural and historical experiences.
The way in which an extreme event is experienced and perceived determines whether it becomes inscribed into the memory of a community or an individual in the form of oral history, ideology, custom, behaviour, narrative, artefact, technological and physical adaptation, including adaptations to the working landscape and built environment. These different forms of remembering and recording the past represent central media through which information on past events is curated, recycled and transmitted across generations. In this regard, experience or awareness of unusual or extreme events can effectively condition how people comprehend and respond to the problems of risk and uncertainty with respect to the timing and impact of extreme events in the future.
The construction of regionally specific climatic histories and historical extreme weather events, and investigations of the memories of and responses to these events, must form a crucial component of any research that seeks to understand the nature of events that might take place in the future. These histories are also important if we are to be able to assess how different communities in different contexts might be affected by, comprehend and respond to future events. The purpose of the proposed project, therefore, is to examine the nature, timing and socio-economic and cultural consequences of, and responses to, climatic extremes in the UK. This will be achieved through a series of case study-based investigations across the UK and will cover an extended period between 1700 and the present. This study will employ a combination of archival investigation and oral history approaches in order to construct episodes of extreme weather and to explore whether and how these events affected the lives of local people and became inscribed into the cultural fabric and social memory of selected local communities within the case study regions. We will also explore how the recording of these events has changed overtime and is still changing.
The project will work in concert with a number of non academic partners whose roles necessitate an understanding of the history of extreme events and their cultural implications. Specifically we will collaborate with English Heritage and the Meteorological Office through their Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions Over the Earth (ACRE) initiative. The project will help both institutions better appreciate the cultural implications of extreme weather in the regions and communities within which they operate and the ways in which they might anticipate future impacts in their work.
Yet extreme weather events are as much social texts as material occurrences - as well as being biophysical events, they are also socially and culturally constructed and interpreted. Geographical context influences how individuals and communities experience the natural world. Different regional circumstances, particular physical conditions, an area's social and economic activities and embedded cultural knowledges, norms, values, practices and infrastructures all affect community experiences, reactions and responses to extreme weather. The impact of extreme weather may even vary between individuals, depending on a multitude of factors, which are in turn informed by cultural and historical experiences.
The way in which an extreme event is experienced and perceived determines whether it becomes inscribed into the memory of a community or an individual in the form of oral history, ideology, custom, behaviour, narrative, artefact, technological and physical adaptation, including adaptations to the working landscape and built environment. These different forms of remembering and recording the past represent central media through which information on past events is curated, recycled and transmitted across generations. In this regard, experience or awareness of unusual or extreme events can effectively condition how people comprehend and respond to the problems of risk and uncertainty with respect to the timing and impact of extreme events in the future.
The construction of regionally specific climatic histories and historical extreme weather events, and investigations of the memories of and responses to these events, must form a crucial component of any research that seeks to understand the nature of events that might take place in the future. These histories are also important if we are to be able to assess how different communities in different contexts might be affected by, comprehend and respond to future events. The purpose of the proposed project, therefore, is to examine the nature, timing and socio-economic and cultural consequences of, and responses to, climatic extremes in the UK. This will be achieved through a series of case study-based investigations across the UK and will cover an extended period between 1700 and the present. This study will employ a combination of archival investigation and oral history approaches in order to construct episodes of extreme weather and to explore whether and how these events affected the lives of local people and became inscribed into the cultural fabric and social memory of selected local communities within the case study regions. We will also explore how the recording of these events has changed overtime and is still changing.
The project will work in concert with a number of non academic partners whose roles necessitate an understanding of the history of extreme events and their cultural implications. Specifically we will collaborate with English Heritage and the Meteorological Office through their Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions Over the Earth (ACRE) initiative. The project will help both institutions better appreciate the cultural implications of extreme weather in the regions and communities within which they operate and the ways in which they might anticipate future impacts in their work.
Planned Impact
This research project recovers and integrates evidence that will provide a comprehensive history of extreme weather events and their cultural implications in different case study regions of the UK. The results will be of benefit to a wide range of potential users, including the private sector, government agencies, policy makers, the public sector and the wider public. Our weather and climate histories will feed directly into related data repositories and initiatives, including those managed by our partners on this application, the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) (http://www.met-acre.org/) initiative of the Meteorological Office. We will help ACRE in its mission to facilitate the recovery, extension, quality control and consolidation of global historical terrestrial and marine instrumental surface data covering the last 250 years.
Understanding the implications of extreme weather on the UK's historic environment, its buildings, gardens and working landscapes is a priority concern for English Heritage, another of our project partners. Our work on the impacts of events on the built and natural environment will yield information fundamental for planning future adaptation strategies for the UK's built infrastructure. It will feed into English Heritage initiatives on these themes, including their statements on Climate Change and the Historic Environment and their "Climate Change and Your Home" website.
This research will be of benefit to the RGS-IBG and its members by contributing case study material to its 'Teaching and Learning Resources for Schools' and for the'Climate4Classrooms'initiative - a project designed to draw together leading experts, teachers, young people, both nationally and internationally, to increase local knowledge about climate and climate change. We will focus on the development of interactive project resources, which will provide students with a toolkit for undertaking their own research on cultural inscription of climate change impacts.
Our contacts include private sector organisations with interests in the history of extreme weather events. Project results will be made available to the British Hydrological Society and specifically their free-access Chronology of British Hydrological Events project, which includes over 8000 accounts of pre-instrumental hydrological events from around the UK. The project applicants also have links with the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and will forge links with the new Natural Resources Body for Wales (as from April 2013), responsible in England, Scotland and Wales respectively for helping organisations adapt to flooding and droughts. The regionally specific information on extreme events and their impacts, and on changing public perceptions of risk, will contribute to their climate change adaptation strategies. Other non-academic beneficiaries include the Health Protection Agency (HPA) which advises on health implications of extreme weather events such as the flooding in the South West in 2007.
The outcomes of this project will be of interest to third sector community and enthusiast groups. The PI and Co-Is have strong links with amateur meteorological and natural history organisations and there are opportunities for publicising this research through their websites, bulletins and journals. The project will contribute to LlenNatur's ('Nature Lore') free-access chronology of weather accounts from Wales. Other community groups that will benefit from the research findings include local resilience fora in each of the case study regions, including Nottingham/Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum; NHSScotland Resilience Forum; Norfolk Prepared; Wales Resilience; and Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Resilience Forum. The project will provide these groups with information on local places at risk from extreme events and evidence of past, and insights into future community responses to those events.
Understanding the implications of extreme weather on the UK's historic environment, its buildings, gardens and working landscapes is a priority concern for English Heritage, another of our project partners. Our work on the impacts of events on the built and natural environment will yield information fundamental for planning future adaptation strategies for the UK's built infrastructure. It will feed into English Heritage initiatives on these themes, including their statements on Climate Change and the Historic Environment and their "Climate Change and Your Home" website.
This research will be of benefit to the RGS-IBG and its members by contributing case study material to its 'Teaching and Learning Resources for Schools' and for the'Climate4Classrooms'initiative - a project designed to draw together leading experts, teachers, young people, both nationally and internationally, to increase local knowledge about climate and climate change. We will focus on the development of interactive project resources, which will provide students with a toolkit for undertaking their own research on cultural inscription of climate change impacts.
Our contacts include private sector organisations with interests in the history of extreme weather events. Project results will be made available to the British Hydrological Society and specifically their free-access Chronology of British Hydrological Events project, which includes over 8000 accounts of pre-instrumental hydrological events from around the UK. The project applicants also have links with the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and will forge links with the new Natural Resources Body for Wales (as from April 2013), responsible in England, Scotland and Wales respectively for helping organisations adapt to flooding and droughts. The regionally specific information on extreme events and their impacts, and on changing public perceptions of risk, will contribute to their climate change adaptation strategies. Other non-academic beneficiaries include the Health Protection Agency (HPA) which advises on health implications of extreme weather events such as the flooding in the South West in 2007.
The outcomes of this project will be of interest to third sector community and enthusiast groups. The PI and Co-Is have strong links with amateur meteorological and natural history organisations and there are opportunities for publicising this research through their websites, bulletins and journals. The project will contribute to LlenNatur's ('Nature Lore') free-access chronology of weather accounts from Wales. Other community groups that will benefit from the research findings include local resilience fora in each of the case study regions, including Nottingham/Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum; NHSScotland Resilience Forum; Norfolk Prepared; Wales Resilience; and Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Resilience Forum. The project will provide these groups with information on local places at risk from extreme events and evidence of past, and insights into future community responses to those events.
Publications
Veale L
(2016)
Situating 1816, the 'year without summer', in the UK
in The Geographical Journal
Veale L
(2017)
Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: the example of the TEMPEST database
in Geo: Geography and Environment
Veale L
(2018)
The 'Great Snow' of winter 1614/1615 in England
in Weather
Veale L
(2017)
'Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow': exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers
in Archives and Records
Naylor S
(2022)
Extreme weather, school logbooks and social vulnerability: The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
in Journal of Historical Geography
Macdonald N
(2023)
Understanding weather futures based on the past: a case of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides
in Scottish Geographical Journal
Endfield GH
(2016)
The Derwent Valley. The valley that changed the world
Endfield GH
(2020)
Elemental Placemaking
in HIstorical Geography
Endfield GH
(2017)
Cultural HIstory, Memories and Extreme Weather (in press at time of writing)
Endfield GH
(2019)
Climate and Culture. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World.
Title | Commissioned play-"The Storm Officer" |
Description | Inspired by the extreme weather database (TEMPEST), The Storm Officer is a rich journey, and an entertainment, which weaves together story, songs, strange characters, a thousand years of extreme weather and real experiences from the Cumbrian floods of December 2015. The performance has been specially commissioned by Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale as part of their 'Weather Extremes' exhibition at the Weston Gallery. It has been written by Matt Black www.matt-black.co.uk. The Storm Officer will be performed for the first time on 17th March, 2017. Wild Stories and Songs of Extreme Weather written by Matt Black Fri 17 Mar 1.30pm-2.45pm Djanogly Theatre Admission Free |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | At the time of writing the performance has yet to take place. |
URL | http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/special-events/event/3399/the-storm-officer.html |
Title | Weather Extremes Exhibition |
Description | Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale curated an exhibition on extreme weather histories at the Weston Gallery, LakeSide Arts Centre, Nottingham, 16th Dec- March 26th. This exhibition uses the materials held by the University of Nottingham's Manuscripts and Special Collections to explore the history of extreme weather events in Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas. Key events in Nottinghamshire's weather history will be featured: floods, droughts, storms, extremes of temperature and other strange atmospheric happenings (some well-known, others long-forgotten). Archival sources reveal how extreme weather affected daily life in the city of Nottingham and the wider county, the impact it had on different groups in society, their responses to it and which events entered the public memory. At the time of writing the exhbition has ben visited by in excess of 4500 people since opening on 16th December 2016. The display also explores the contributions of Nottinghamshire people to the extreme weather archive and to the wider development of the science of meteorology. The exhibition materials not only illustrate the diversity of documentary records available for extreme weather history in the UK, but also serve to demonstrate the changing nature of weather recording and weather records over time. Visitors have been be invited to share their own weather memories. There are three public talks linked to the exhibition which Georgina and Lucy have coordinated There is also a play, entitled The Storm Officer, written by Matt Black and commissioned by Georgina and Lucy as part of the exhibition activities. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Public engagement with local weather histories and sharing of weather memories. The exhibition is still running but we will analyse the visitor book for responses as soon as the exhibition closes. |
URL | http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibitions/event/3356/weather-extremes-making-and-breaking-records-i... |
Description | The project led to a comprehensive case study based archival investigation of historical weather events in the UK< dating back to the 15th century up to the 20th century. It led to the development of a publicly accessible searchable data base of weather events, searchable by place, date, type of event, or the associated impacts and responses the events led to. |
Exploitation Route | The database is being used widely by a range of audiences- other academics, climate and weather experts and government agencies. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/extreme-weather/search/ |
Description | This is still in development but this project is being used as the basis for a public weather exhibition to be opened in December 2016 at the Lakeside's Weston Gallery, Nottingham. We worked with poet Matt Black in the development of a series of popular weather writing and poems, completed in 2016. These are based on the findings of the project work which is still being completed. Matt also developed a play inspired by the project work- The Storm Officer- which has been staged in 2016, 2018, 2019 ad 2020 in various venues across the UK as part of a Follow on AHRC supported project. |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Description | Building UK climate resilience through bridging the qualitative-quantitative data divide |
Amount | £48,121 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/S016961/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 01/2020 |
Title | Tempest data base (public interface) |
Description | We have been developing a public facing version of the TEMPEST database, a unique data base of over 15000 descriptions and accounts of historical extreme weather events which have affected the UK between the 1650s and the present day. The database is searchable by date, event type, place, impact and response as well as the author of particular documents. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The database was requested by Historic England who were compiling a report on the impact of extreme weather on heritage assets along the UK coastline. The database is being used by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) to develop a second of educational resources for Geography teaching in schools |
URL | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/extreme-weather/search/index2.php |
Title | Tempest database |
Description | This is a data base we are creating for our project that will be used for storage and analysis during the project and which will be launched as a publically accessible data base towards the end of the project |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This is still in process |
Description | Collaboration with Royal Geographical Society with the INstitute of British Geographers |
Organisation | Royal Geographical Society |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We are providing material which will be used for the preparation of educational resources for Geography teaching in Schools |
Collaborator Contribution | They are helping to identify the most appropriate material and case study material for use in educational resources |
Impact | This is still in development |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Collaboration/ Partnership |
Organisation | Royal Geographical Society |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society on project, 'Cultural Spaces of Climate' and 'Weather walks and weather talks' project. |
Collaborator Contribution | We worked collaboratively with the RGS_IBG on the development of a guided audio walk. The RGS produced the walk for us as part of their Discovering Britain initiative. http://www.discoveringbritain.org/ |
Impact | The project resulted in the development of a 'weather walk' for the RGS-IBG's Discovering Britain initiative, which aims to assist in raising awareness among the general public of the landscapes ( and their histories) of the UK. Our walk was focused on the landscape and climate history of Great Dun Fell, Cumbria |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Working in a partnership with the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Globe (ACRE), part of the Meteorological Office |
Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
Department | Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We are sharing knowledge on the rescue and transcription of historical documents revealing information about historical extreme weather events |
Collaborator Contribution | ACRE are helping in the identification of sources of information of value to both us and them |
Impact | This research project recovers and integrates evidence that will provide a comprehensive history of extreme weather events and their cultural implications in different case study regions of the UK. The results will be of benefit to a wide range of potential users, including the private sector, government agencies, policy makers, the public sector and the wider public. Our weather and climate histories will feed directly into related data repositories and initiatives, including those managed by our partners on this application, the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) (http://www.metacre. org/) initiative of the Meteorological Office. We will help ACRE in its mission to facilitate the recovery, extension, quality control and consolidation of global historical terrestrial and marine instrumental surface data covering the last 250 years. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Working with HIstoric England |
Organisation | English Heritage |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | we are sharing information about the relationship between extreme weather past and present and the built environment |
Collaborator Contribution | They are actiing in advisory capacity |
Impact | Understanding the implications of extreme weather on the UK's historic environment, its buildings, gardens and working landscapes is a priority concern for English Heritage, another of our project partners. Our work on the impacts of events on the built and natural environment will yield information fundamental for planning future adaptation strategies for the UK's built infrastructure. It will feed into English Heritage initiatives on these themes, including their statements on Climate Change and the Historic Environment and their "Climate Change and Your Home" website. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Appearance on Central TV Weather News |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To coincide with the launch of the Weather Extremes exhibition we were invited to appear on Central TV evening weather news with Des Coleman. He recorded the weather news from the exhibition and Lucy and I featured in thie short piece. We introduced the exhibition during the slot. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Appearance on Radio New Zealand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Members of the project team- Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale- were invited to participate in a media interview on Radio New Zealand's evening show to discuss the extreme weather project- Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Article in the Postgraduate Magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Article on the prohect work being conducted as part of the "Spaces of experience, horizons of Expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future" project. This appeared in the University of Nottingham's School of Geography postgraduate newsletter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | BBC Weather News feature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A piece about some of the images featured in the Weather Extremes Exhibition was written by BBC writers and appeared on the BBC Weather News website. It appeared first on the BBC New (Nottingham site) and then featured on the main national weather page later the same day (14th/15th/16th Dec 2016) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-38301949 |
Description | BBC interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was invited to discuss storms through history during an interview with Claire Hamilton on BBC Radio Merseyside. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | C3W public lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked discussion and questions Raised awareness among the general public of the project but also more generally of the historicla nature of extreme weather in Wales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://c3wales.org/event_details/public-lecture-cerys-jones-sarah-davies/ |
Description | Cambridge visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 21 January 2016 Georgina Endfield presented an invited seminar/ talk entitled "Wondrous signs of wondrous times": cultural histories of extreme weather events in the UK, at the Department of Geography seminar series, University of Cambridge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Care for the Future ECR conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Lucy Veale and James Bowen presented on 'Weather and the great estate: "The all engrossing matter"' paper presentation at at the Past Matters AHRC Care for the Future ECR Conference, London, 12-13 Dec. Georgina Endfield, Lucy Veale and James Bowen were also members of the steering committee for the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Community open day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of the University of Nottingham's Community Open Day- Mayfest- we held a special workshop focusing on the Weather 'on this day' in years gone by. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mayfest/index.aspx |
Description | Exhibition talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of our rpoject we have curated an Exhibition on Weather Extremes: Making and Breaking Records in Nottinghamshire at the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham. This exhibition which draws on original archive work conducted as part of the extreme weather project. As part of the exhibition the Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale coordinated three exhibition talks and a commissioned play- The Storm Officer. We delivered the first talk: "What will become of the turnips? Archival investigations of extreme weather events in the UK". This talk was delivered on 12th January 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibitions/event/3357/and-what-becomes-of-the-turnips-archival-inves... |
Description | Exhibition talk 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was the second talk ins a series of three presented as part of the Weather Extremes Exhibition at the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham. The lunchtime talk was presented by Professor Mike Hulme from King's College London and was entitled: "Whom Do We Blame for the Weather?". This event was coordinated in conjunction with the Exhibition by Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale and attrracted a full house. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://tickets.lakesidearts.org.uk/single/PSDetail.aspx?psn=128077 |
Description | Exhibition talk 3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The third talk in the exhibtion series will be presented by Catherin Ross from the Meteorological Office LIbrary and Archive. It is entitled "From sorcery-to-super-computers the story of weather as told through a selection of treasures." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2017 |
URL | http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibitions/event/3359/from-sorcery-to-super-computers-the-story-of-w... |
Description | Follow up Radio appearance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A second interview was invited for the Verity Cowley Show on BBC Radio Nottingham. This focused on weather extremes in Central England in years gone by. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | IHR talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | James Bowen and Lucy Veale presented on Weather extremes in early modern England, at the Tudor and Stuart seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, 6th June 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | International Conference of Historical Geography |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Convened double session on extreme weather memory at the International Conference of Historical Geographers, London We have drawn together a proposal for an edited volume of the papers presented. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.ichg2015.org/ |
Description | Invited talk to the North Staffordshire Historians Guild, James Bowen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 13th November 2015 PDRA James Bowen presented an invited talk to the North Staffordshire Historians Guild, James Bowen |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Limoges flood workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 1st October 2015, PDRA Marie Jeanne Royer on the Weather extremes project presented (by invitation) a paper at te workshop on Floods as Heritage: the Heritage Value of Floods; Limoges, France |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | MOAP poster presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The project team were invited to include a poster on our work for a meeting of the The Met Office Academic Partnership - a cluster of research excellence that brings together the Met Office and institutions who are among the leading UK Universities in weather and climate science (University of Exeter, University of Leeds, University of Oxford and University of Reading) through a formal collaboration to advance the science and skill of weather and climate prediction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/partnership |
Description | Practicing HIstorical Geography workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | On 28th October 2015, Lucy Veale presented a talk on the Weather extremes work entitled Great British Weather: drought, flood, storm and tempest in the archive, The invited talk was part of the 21st Practising Historical Geography Conference, University of Sussex. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation for Royal Meteorological Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This is a presentation on my work to the East Midlands branch of the Royal Meteorological Society. This talk focuses specifically on experiences of unusual or extreme weather events as recorded through historical documentary sources. The presentation will consider the different ways in which people have written about and described (or depicted) the weather, how they have recorded, anticipated and predicted the weather and how they have tried to understand it. Examples are drawn from the author's work in the UK and further afield, particularly in southern and eastern Africa. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2022 |
Description | Public lecture, Cardigan Castle Talks, Guildhall, Cardigan. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Sarah Davies and Cerys Jones, delivered a public lecture on November 28th 2013. This took place as part of the Cardigan Castle Talks, Guildhall, Cardigan and focused on 'Investigating historical weather extremes in Wales'. People were engaged thtough questions and discussion Raising public awareness of the historical record of extreme weather in Wales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.cardigancastle.com/cardigan-castle-autumn-talks |
Description | RAI Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Georgina Endfield, Lucy Veale and the project team coordinated a panel on 'Extreme weather history: Case studies from the UK and beyond', at the Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, Anthropology, Weather and Climate, British Museum, London. 27-29 May 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | RGS Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale presented a paper on Future weather in session on 'Where next? Historical geographies of the future', RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London 30th August- 2nd Sept 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | RMetSoc NCAS conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Members of the project team coordinated and presented at a Workshop on 'Historical climatology and the societal implications of extreme weather' at the RMetS/NCAS Conference July 6-8, 2016, High Impact Weather and Climate, University of Manchester (coordinated by Georgina Endfield, Neil Macdonald, Sarah Davies and Lucy Veale). Contributions to sessions included a paper entitled 'High impact wind events without high winds' and 'Attribution of changes in extreme events', delivered by Lucy Veale. Full team poster presentations were also made. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Radio Interview BBC Radio Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale were interviewed at the Weather Extremes Exhibition by BBC Radio Nottingham's Breakfast show. The interview coincided with the launch of the exhibition. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Radio appearance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented aspects of our forthcoming research plans on the Paul Hudson Radio Show- BBC Radio Interest from the general public in our research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Schools Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Georgina Endfield presented a monday evening lecture/talk for secondary school pupils on the subject of extreme weather histories. This was held on monday 25th January 2017. The talk was part of a series run by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Upwards of 400 students attented and there was a dialogue/ question session at the end. Georgina talked about some of the work invested in the production of the TEMPEST database produced as part of the project. TEMPEST has a variety of potential educational uses. The project team is working alongside the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to develop 'teaching guides' so that (geography) teachers can use the database in an age appropriate way in the following settings: 1. For primary (Key Stage 2) and lower secondary (Key Stage 3) to use alongside weather observations and teaching about the weather especially in a UK context, with a real focus on the local 'place' 2. For GCSE linking into the requirement for the new curriculum (from 2016 onwards) to include coverage of "Changing weather and climate - The causes, consequences of and responses to extreme weather conditions and natural weather hazards, recognising their changing distribution in time and space and drawing on an understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere. The spatial and temporal characteristics, of climatic change and evidence for different causes, including human activity, from the beginning of the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago) to the present day." The historical context of the database is particularly relevant here, especially as the new GCSE has to include greater coverage of the UK's geography in the following terms. "Geography of the UK - Knowledge and understanding of the UK's geography, both in overview and with some in depth study, to include its physical and human landscapes, environmental challenges, changing economy and society, the importance of cultural and political factors, and its relationships with the wider world. Much of this may be achieved by study in combination with other physical, human and environmental study topics, but students must also study the UK as a country and draw across physical and human characteristics to summarise significant geographical features and issues" (ref?) 3. For A Level the following areas * An overview of the use of weather data in relation to the need for students to write their own 'individual investigation' - which must include the collection of primary data and its use in the context of secondary data too. * An 'A Level Overview' briefing which we'd make available online around "culture, history and weather" which would allow A Level teachers (and their students) to understand weather and its impact and recording within cultural contexts - and the introduction of cultural geography within A Level. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/BAAE47C9-840E-493A-BE54-C49D897BDBF7/27985/RGSIBGBulletinSpring2017W... |
Description | Talk in Benbecula |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 30th September 2016 Simon Naylor and James Bowen presented 'Extreme weather on the edge of the world: School log books and Hebridean life', a talk by Simon Naylor and at the Museum nan Eilean (Uist and Barra), Benbecula, 7-9pm. This was an information sharing event with opportunities for sharing weather memories. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UWE talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lucy Veale Presented a paper entitled "In consequence of the present distress for want of water": Archival investigations of the societal impact of historic droughts in the UK. This was a seminar presented for the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience,v University of the West of England, on 15th June 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Short article about project fieldwork to the Hebrides as part of the Spaces of experience, horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events in the UK, past, present and future |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Weather stories event, Derbyshire Records Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ON 14th June 2016 Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale ran a 'Weather Stories' workshop and oral history event at the Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, 1-3:30pm. The purpose was to share memories of extreme and unusual weather, learn more about the extreme weather project, and explore weather related materials from the Derbyshire archive and local studies library collections. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Weather talk in Hebrides |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 14th June 2016 James Bowen and Simon Naylor presented a talk on 'Extreme weather on the edge of the world: School log books and Hebridean life' at Lews Castle Museum and Archive, Stornaway, 7:30-9:30pm. This was intended as an information sharing event with a public audience who also shared weather memories. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | William Bulkeley Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This event took place on 19th and 20th September, Llanfechell, Anglesey. Sarah Davies and Cerys Jones gave a presentation on behalf of project and the Climate Change Consortium of Wales: 'What can Mr Bulkeley's diaries tell us about climate change?' The talk stimulated discussion, question and engagement The event was targeted at a range of publics but also school children and children engaged in various activities associated with the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://vimeo.com/107412330 |