Georgina H Endfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina H Endfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina H |
| FAMILY NAME | Endfield |
| SIGNATURE | ENDFIELD G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6052-2204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ancient Maya settlement abandonment and climate instability in Belize (700–1600 CE): A spatial analysis of adaptive resilience
We evaluated the “drought-collapse” narrative in Maya archaeology by mapping settlement abandonment across 294 sites in Belize against high-resolution paleoclimate data. Although severe droughts occurred in Belize between 700 and 1600 CE, their impact on Maya settlement dynamics was uneven. Despite receiving more annual rainfall, spatial analyses (relative-risk surfaces and cluster analysis) show that western and southern regions were abandoned e…
Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to Covid ‐19
With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. Whilst pre‐pandemic research stressed the porosity of domestic thresholds and the capacity of home to stretch beyond domestic space, ‘stay home’ directives and lockdown restrictions demarcated home as a place of containment, separation and immobility…
Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field
How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world have used history to inform planning and decision‐making in various fields for years, but more recently it has taken on a renewed importance as governments grapple with increasingly complex challenges arising from the impacts of climatic change. Yet identifying “lessons from the past” is not straightforward. Especially in the case of big questions about his…
Mapping Covid ‐19 at home
Hand‐drawn maps are an effective method for collecting information around sense of place. In this project, we have used a hand‐drawn mapping methodology as a tool for supporting children and young people in navigating and articulating their experiences of COVID‐19 at home. The nationwide exercise was conducted in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers and National Museums Liverpool, and was part …
Extreme weather, school logbooks and social vulnerability: The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
This paper demonstrates the value of school logbooks, an unusual and hitherto underused archival source, to the field of the historical geographies of weather and climate. It examines logbooks for schools across the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the west coast of mainland Scotland, ranging from the late nineteenth century until the early twentieth century. The weather had numerous and varied impacts on everyday life on the islands and was…
Future Weather: Imagining and Articulating Uncertainty
This chapter draws on empirical research from an AHRC-funded project entitled Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: Extreme Weather in the UK, Past, Present and Future, to illustrate the complex historical geographies and politics of 'weather wising' and different forms of weather prognostications. Endfield considers the different ways in which particular historical subjects imagined and articulated knowledge about weather futures and…
Water and vertical territory: The volatile and hidden historical geographies of Derbyshire's lead mining soughs, 1650s-1830s
This paper is concerned with the complex subterranean politics of lead mining in the Derbyshire Peak District. We focus specifically on the implications of lead mining ‘soughs’ – underground channels driven to drain water out of mines to allow for mineral extraction. Built during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, soughs were substantial, capital and labour intensive projects which served a key function in the refashioning of subterranean and sur…
Climate and colonialism
Recent years have seen a growth in scholarship on the intertwined histories of climate, science, and European imperialism. Scholarship has focused both on how the material realities of climate shaped colonial enterprises, and on how ideas about climate informed imperial ideologies. Historians have shown how European expansion was justified by its protagonists with theories of racial superiority, which were often closely tied to ideas of climatic …
Climate, Conflict and Society: Changing Responses to Weather Extremes in Nineteenth Century Zululand
Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures, cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore the complex relationship between climate, conflict and society in nineteenth century Zululand. The paper first reviews current debates surrounding the links between climatic change, societal transformation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom from the late-eighteenth to …
Drought and Disaster in a Revolutionary Age: Colonial Antigua during the American Independence War
The American War of Independence (1775-1783) spelled crisis for the British West Indies. Trade embargos between rebelling and loyal territories, losses to American pirates, and hostilities with other European states left the Crown's tropical Atlantic colonies short of the imports that normally sustained their populations and commerce. Historians have studied the dynamics of these developments in considerable detail, but have tended to focus on ec…
Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: The example of the Tempest database
People have long been interested in the history of weather, particularly extremes, and chronologies of past events drawing on information from written records have been compiled and published throughout history. In recent years, concern over current and future weather and climate has triggered a new level of interest in past weather events and their impacts. This interest, alongside the development of digital humanities research methods, has resu…
“Snow Scenes”: Exploring the Role of Memory and Place in Commemorating Extreme Winters
Scholars are increasingly focusing on the cultural dimensions of climate, addressing how individuals construct their understanding of climate through local weather. Research often focuses on the importance of widespread conceptualizations of mundane everyday weather, although attention has also been paid to extreme weather events and their potential effect on popular understandings of local climate. This paper introduces the “Snow Scenes” project…
Toward integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
[Article in WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:164–174. The Nottingham based project exploring Documentary reconstructions of extreme weather events in the UK, past, present and future, is funded through the AHRC, Grant number: AH/K005782/1. 'The Snows of Yesteryear: Narrating Extreme Weather' Project, based at the University of Wales, was funded by the AHRC, award number AH/K502765/1
Toward integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
Climate change has become a key environmental narrative of the 21st century. However, emphasis on the science of climate change has overshadowed studies focusing on human interpretations of climate history, of adaptation and resilience, and of explorations of the institutions and cultural coping strategies that may have helped people adapt to climate changes in the past. Moreover, although the idea of climate change has been subject to considerab…
Situating 1816, the 'year without summer', in the UK
The immediate local impacts of the eruption of Mount Tambora, Sumbawa, Indonesia in April 1815 were devastating, resulting in the loss of an estimated 60 000 lives on this and neighbouring islands. However, the longer term effects of the largest known historical eruption on global weather and climate and the related consequences for human health and wellbeing have maintained the prominence of the eruption in public memory. Among the most notable …
Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: A review of his life and work
British climatologist and geographer, Gordon Manley (1902–1980), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on climate variability in the UK , for establishing the Central England Temperature series and, for his pivotal role in demonstrating the powerful relationship between climate, weather, and culture in post‐World War II Britain. Yet Manley made many contributions, both professional and popular, to climate change debates in the twentieth c…
Greetings from the new Editor
It is with great pleasure that I introduce Volume 2.3 of The Anthropocene Review, my first having taken over as Editor from Professor Frank Oldfield earlier this year. I first wish to thank Frank. Together with the support of the Associate Editors, and the journal team more broadly, he has invested a significant amount of time and energy, and substantial intellectual capital, in order to position the journal in centre stage for some of the strong…
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Knowing weather in place: The Helm Wind of Cross Fell
The Helm Wind of Cross Fell, North Pennines, is England's only named wind. As a product of the particular landscape found at Cross Fell, the Helm is a true local wind, and a phenomenon that has come to assume great cultural as well as environmental significance in the region and beyond. In this paper we draw on material from county histories, newspaper archives, and documents relating to investigations of the Helm Wind that were conducted by the …
Critical perspectives on historical collapse
Historical collapse of ancient states or civilizations has raised new awareness about its possible relevance to current issues of sustainability, in the context of global change. This Special Feature examines 12 case studies of societies under stress, of which seven suffered severe transformation. Outcomes were complex and unpredictable. Five others overcame breakdown through environmental, political, or socio-cultural resilience, which deserves …
Well weather is not a girl thing is it?' Contemporary amateur meteorology, gender relations and the shaping of domestic masculinity
Although there is a growing scholarship on the history of amateur meteorology, contemporary amateur meteorology has tended to remain a largely invisible social phenomenon. Moreover, questions of female involvement and gender relations therein have tended to be overlooked. This paper seeks to address this gap by drawing on interviews with members of one of the most important amateur meteorological networks in the UK—the Climatological Observers Li…
Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley
During the last three decades, popular discourses of climate have been replaced by a global and scientific metanarrative focusing on climate change and global warming. Recent climate scholarship has thus highlighted the need for a reexamination of the idea of climate and its culturally and spatially variable dimensions, though anxieties over the reemergence of climatic determinism in a number of high-profile publications have compounded a relucta…
Through marsh and mountain: Tropical acclimatization, health and disease and the CMS mission to Uganda, 1875-1920
This paper employs the letters, journals and books written by representatives of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) – charged with establishing a mission to Uganda – to explore the ways in which missionary discourses were framed by, and contributed to, contemporary debates over tropical acclimatization and healthiness of place. Attention first focuses on the degree to which advice produced for and by pioneering missionaries travelling to Uganda …
Estrategias para el control del agua en Oaxaca colonial
El resultado del proceso colonizador sobre la propiedad y el uso del agua en el valle central de Oaxaca culminó, como en otros sitios de México, en el acaparamiento de los beneficios del líquido vital por parte de los colonos españoles. Si las prerrogativas emanadas de la conquista permitieron que la mitad de la tierra quedara en manos de los antiguos cacicazgos y del marqués del Valle, restringiendo la ocupación de la tierra a los colonos y enco…
The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa
Identifying the nature of the association between climate, environmental, socio-economic and political context and disease remains a major challenge, yet a better comprehension of the linkages is imperative if predictive models to guide public health responses are to be devised. Our understanding of the relationships could be improved through investigations of historical epidemics. In this paper we draw on a range of published and unpublished doc…
Narratives of climate change: Introduction
Climate and colonialism
Recent years have seen a growth in scholarship on the intertwined histories of climate, science, and European imperialism. Scholarship has focused both on how the material realities of climate shaped colonial enterprises, and on how ideas about climate informed imperial ideologies. Historians have shown how European expansion was justified by its protagonists with theories of racial superiority, which were often closely tied to ideas of climatic …
Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability
Drought, desiccation and discourse: Missionary correspondence and nineteenth‐century climate change in central southern Africa
This paper examines the role that representatives of the London Missionary Society in central southern Africa during the nineteenth century may have played in the development of geographical debates concerning the long‐term desiccation of the African continent. Observations on climate included within missionary documents are used to reconstruct a chronology of intra‐decadal climatic variability for the period 1815–1900. This reveals six drought p…
Conflicts Over Water in 'The Little Drought Age' in Central Mexico
Mexico represents one of the most climatically sensitive regions of the world. Over the Colonial period, prolonged drought episodes had severe impacts on all sectors of society, particularly indigenous rural populations. This paper employs a variety of colonial historical records to document the nature and extent of these impacts within the context of prevailing social, political and economic conditions. It is clear that access to water has long …
Knowing weather in place: The Helm Wind of Cross Fell
The Helm Wind of Cross Fell, North Pennines, is England's only named wind. As a product of the particular landscape found at Cross Fell, the Helm is a true local wind, and a phenomenon that has come to assume great cultural as well as environmental significance in the region and beyond. In this paper we draw on material from county histories, newspaper archives, and documents relating to investigations of the Helm Wind that were conducted by the …
Conflict and Cooperation: Water, Floods, and Social Response in Colonial Guanajuato, Mexico
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Happy is the bride the rain falls on’: 1 Climate, Health and ‘The Woman Question’ in Nineteenth‐century Missionary Documentation
European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In t…
Toward integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
Climate change has become a key environmental narrative of the 21st century. However, emphasis on the science of climate change has overshadowed studies focusing on human interpretations of climate history, of adaptation and resilience, and of explorations of the institutions and cultural coping strategies that may have helped people adapt to climate changes in the past. Moreover, although the idea of climate change has been subject to considerab…
Water and vertical territory: The volatile and hidden historical geographies of Derbyshire's lead mining soughs, 1650s-1830s
This paper is concerned with the complex subterranean politics of lead mining in the Derbyshire Peak District. We focus specifically on the implications of lead mining ‘soughs’ – underground channels driven to drain water out of mines to allow for mineral extraction. Built during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, soughs were substantial, capital and labour intensive projects which served a key function in the refashioning of subterranean and sur…
Situating 1816, the 'year without summer', in the UK
The immediate local impacts of the eruption of Mount Tambora, Sumbawa, Indonesia in April 1815 were devastating, resulting in the loss of an estimated 60 000 lives on this and neighbouring islands. However, the longer term effects of the largest known historical eruption on global weather and climate and the related consequences for human health and wellbeing have maintained the prominence of the eruption in public memory. Among the most notable …
Well weather is not a girl thing is it?' Contemporary amateur meteorology, gender relations and the shaping of domestic masculinity
Although there is a growing scholarship on the history of amateur meteorology, contemporary amateur meteorology has tended to remain a largely invisible social phenomenon. Moreover, questions of female involvement and gender relations therein have tended to be overlooked. This paper seeks to address this gap by drawing on interviews with members of one of the most important amateur meteorological networks in the UK—the Climatological Observers Li…
The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa
Identifying the nature of the association between climate, environmental, socio-economic and political context and disease remains a major challenge, yet a better comprehension of the linkages is imperative if predictive models to guide public health responses are to be devised. Our understanding of the relationships could be improved through investigations of historical epidemics. In this paper we draw on a range of published and unpublished doc…
Drought and disputes, deluge and dearth: Climatic variability and human response in colonial Oaxaca, Mexico
Missionaries and Morals: Climatic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Central Southern Africa
The letters, personal papers, and journals written by British missionaries based at mission stations within and around the Kalahari region of central southern Africa in the nineteenth century provide an invaluable insight into time- and place-specific interactions with local cultures and environments. This article employs a range of unpublished and published missionary correspondence and travelogues to examine two key aspects regarding the concep…
Mapping Covid ‐19 at home
Hand‐drawn maps are an effective method for collecting information around sense of place. In this project, we have used a hand‐drawn mapping methodology as a tool for supporting children and young people in navigating and articulating their experiences of COVID‐19 at home. The nationwide exercise was conducted in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers and National Museums Liverpool, and was part …
Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley
During the last three decades, popular discourses of climate have been replaced by a global and scientific metanarrative focusing on climate change and global warming. Recent climate scholarship has thus highlighted the need for a reexamination of the idea of climate and its culturally and spatially variable dimensions, though anxieties over the reemergence of climatic determinism in a number of high-profile publications have compounded a relucta…
History and Climate Change: A Eurocentric Perspective
Pinturas , land and lawsuits: Maps in colonial Mexican legal documents
The local land surveys and land‐use drawings included in colonial judicial documents held in the national and regional archives of Mexico provide a largely under‐exploited medium for investigating post‐conquest cultural, economic and environmental change. If these maps are to be useful historical sources, their limitations as well as their potential need to be assessed in order to shed light on the processes of cultural interaction and on ways in…
Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field
How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world have used history to inform planning and decision‐making in various fields for years, but more recently it has taken on a renewed importance as governments grapple with increasingly complex challenges arising from the impacts of climatic change. Yet identifying “lessons from the past” is not straightforward. Especially in the case of big questions about his…
Extreme weather, school logbooks and social vulnerability: The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
This paper demonstrates the value of school logbooks, an unusual and hitherto underused archival source, to the field of the historical geographies of weather and climate. It examines logbooks for schools across the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the west coast of mainland Scotland, ranging from the late nineteenth century until the early twentieth century. The weather had numerous and varied impacts on everyday life on the islands and was…
Climate, Conflict and Society: Changing Responses to Weather Extremes in Nineteenth Century Zululand
Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures, cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore the complex relationship between climate, conflict and society in nineteenth century Zululand. The paper first reviews current debates surrounding the links between climatic change, societal transformation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom from the late-eighteenth to …
Through marsh and mountain: Tropical acclimatization, health and disease and the CMS mission to Uganda, 1875-1920
This paper employs the letters, journals and books written by representatives of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) – charged with establishing a mission to Uganda – to explore the ways in which missionary discourses were framed by, and contributed to, contemporary debates over tropical acclimatization and healthiness of place. Attention first focuses on the degree to which advice produced for and by pioneering missionaries travelling to Uganda …
Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: The example of the Tempest database
People have long been interested in the history of weather, particularly extremes, and chronologies of past events drawing on information from written records have been compiled and published throughout history. In recent years, concern over current and future weather and climate has triggered a new level of interest in past weather events and their impacts. This interest, alongside the development of digital humanities research methods, has resu…
Conflicts Over Water in 'The Little Drought Age' in Central Mexico
Mexico represents one of the most climatically sensitive regions of the world. Over the Colonial period, prolonged drought episodes had severe impacts on all sectors of society, particularly indigenous rural populations. This paper employs a variety of colonial historical records to document the nature and extent of these impacts within the context of prevailing social, political and economic conditions. It is clear that access to water has long …
Lands, Livestock and the Law: Territorial Conflicts in Colonial West Central Mexico
Perception or deception? Land degradation in post-conquest Michoacán, west central México
Historical sources are increasingly being used as a media for reconstructing environmental histories in many parts of the world. The rich archival collections of Mexico, for example, are recognised as an important source of information relating to Post-Conquest environmental change at both a regional and a local scale. While such sources provide a unique window through which to view the past, it is imperative that the degree of subjectivity and b…
Pinturas , land and lawsuits: Maps in colonial Mexican legal documents
The local land surveys and land‐use drawings included in colonial judicial documents held in the national and regional archives of Mexico provide a largely under‐exploited medium for investigating post‐conquest cultural, economic and environmental change. If these maps are to be useful historical sources, their limitations as well as their potential need to be assessed in order to shed light on the processes of cultural interaction and on ways in…
Missionaries and Morals: Climatic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Central Southern Africa
The letters, personal papers, and journals written by British missionaries based at mission stations within and around the Kalahari region of central southern Africa in the nineteenth century provide an invaluable insight into time- and place-specific interactions with local cultures and environments. This article employs a range of unpublished and published missionary correspondence and travelogues to examine two key aspects regarding the concep…
Drought, desiccation and discourse: Missionary correspondence and nineteenth‐century climate change in central southern Africa
This paper examines the role that representatives of the London Missionary Society in central southern Africa during the nineteenth century may have played in the development of geographical debates concerning the long‐term desiccation of the African continent. Observations on climate included within missionary documents are used to reconstruct a chronology of intra‐decadal climatic variability for the period 1815–1900. This reveals six drought p…
History and Climate Change: A Eurocentric Perspective
Drought and disputes, deluge and dearth: Climatic variability and human response in colonial Oaxaca, Mexico
Conflict and Cooperation: Water, Floods, and Social Response in Colonial Guanajuato, Mexico
Happy is the bride the rain falls on’: 1 Climate, Health and ‘The Woman Question’ in Nineteenth‐century Missionary Documentation
European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In t…
Climate and Crisis in Eighteenth Century Mexico
Signals of social and economic growth and prosperity in late colonial Mexico, and especially in the eighteenth century, masked a number of deeper, longer-standing structural problems. Drives towards market integration and the development of international trade associated with the Bourbon reforms stimulated a phase of remarkably rapid economic and administrative change, but also exacerbated a growing social inequality. Some groups benefitted from …
‘A good site for health’: Missionaries and the pathological geography of central southern Africa
Throughout much of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the tropics and subtropics were constructed as a relatively homogenous realm. The supposed ‘pathological potency’ of these regions was assumed to render them particularly hazardous for European constitutions relative to ‘temperate’ locations. The interior of Africa represented one such apparently pestilential place. This paper examines how the experiences of nineteenth‐century…
Narratives of climate change: Introduction
Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability
Estrategias para el control del agua en Oaxaca colonial
El resultado del proceso colonizador sobre la propiedad y el uso del agua en el valle central de Oaxaca culminó, como en otros sitios de México, en el acaparamiento de los beneficios del líquido vital por parte de los colonos españoles. Si las prerrogativas emanadas de la conquista permitieron que la mitad de la tierra quedara en manos de los antiguos cacicazgos y del marqués del Valle, restringiendo la ocupación de la tierra a los colonos y enco…
The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa
Identifying the nature of the association between climate, environmental, socio-economic and political context and disease remains a major challenge, yet a better comprehension of the linkages is imperative if predictive models to guide public health responses are to be devised. Our understanding of the relationships could be improved through investigations of historical epidemics. In this paper we draw on a range of published and unpublished doc…
Through marsh and mountain: Tropical acclimatization, health and disease and the CMS mission to Uganda, 1875-1920
This paper employs the letters, journals and books written by representatives of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) – charged with establishing a mission to Uganda – to explore the ways in which missionary discourses were framed by, and contributed to, contemporary debates over tropical acclimatization and healthiness of place. Attention first focuses on the degree to which advice produced for and by pioneering missionaries travelling to Uganda …
Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley
During the last three decades, popular discourses of climate have been replaced by a global and scientific metanarrative focusing on climate change and global warming. Recent climate scholarship has thus highlighted the need for a reexamination of the idea of climate and its culturally and spatially variable dimensions, though anxieties over the reemergence of climatic determinism in a number of high-profile publications have compounded a relucta…
Critical perspectives on historical collapse
Historical collapse of ancient states or civilizations has raised new awareness about its possible relevance to current issues of sustainability, in the context of global change. This Special Feature examines 12 case studies of societies under stress, of which seven suffered severe transformation. Outcomes were complex and unpredictable. Five others overcame breakdown through environmental, political, or socio-cultural resilience, which deserves …
Well weather is not a girl thing is it?' Contemporary amateur meteorology, gender relations and the shaping of domestic masculinity
Although there is a growing scholarship on the history of amateur meteorology, contemporary amateur meteorology has tended to remain a largely invisible social phenomenon. Moreover, questions of female involvement and gender relations therein have tended to be overlooked. This paper seeks to address this gap by drawing on interviews with members of one of the most important amateur meteorological networks in the UK—the Climatological Observers Li…
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Knowing weather in place: The Helm Wind of Cross Fell
The Helm Wind of Cross Fell, North Pennines, is England's only named wind. As a product of the particular landscape found at Cross Fell, the Helm is a true local wind, and a phenomenon that has come to assume great cultural as well as environmental significance in the region and beyond. In this paper we draw on material from county histories, newspaper archives, and documents relating to investigations of the Helm Wind that were conducted by the …
Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: A review of his life and work
British climatologist and geographer, Gordon Manley (1902–1980), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on climate variability in the UK , for establishing the Central England Temperature series and, for his pivotal role in demonstrating the powerful relationship between climate, weather, and culture in post‐World War II Britain. Yet Manley made many contributions, both professional and popular, to climate change debates in the twentieth c…
Greetings from the new Editor
It is with great pleasure that I introduce Volume 2.3 of The Anthropocene Review, my first having taken over as Editor from Professor Frank Oldfield earlier this year. I first wish to thank Frank. Together with the support of the Associate Editors, and the journal team more broadly, he has invested a significant amount of time and energy, and substantial intellectual capital, in order to position the journal in centre stage for some of the strong…
“Snow Scenes”: Exploring the Role of Memory and Place in Commemorating Extreme Winters
Scholars are increasingly focusing on the cultural dimensions of climate, addressing how individuals construct their understanding of climate through local weather. Research often focuses on the importance of widespread conceptualizations of mundane everyday weather, although attention has also been paid to extreme weather events and their potential effect on popular understandings of local climate. This paper introduces the “Snow Scenes” project…
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