All Outputs (8)

‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers (2017)
Journal Article

Parish registers provide organized, dated and located population data and as such, are routinely among the most frequently consulted documents within the holdings of county record offices and archives. Throughout history, extreme weather has had sign... Read More about ‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers.

Situating 1816, the ‘year without summer’, in the UK (2016)
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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 know... Read More about Situating 1816, the ‘year without summer’, in the UK.

Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: a review of his life and work (2015)
Journal Article

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 po... Read More about Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: a review of his life and work.

Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park (2014)
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The year 2012 marked 200 years since Humphry Repton (1752–1818) produced his design for Sheringham Park in north Norfolk, bound as one of his Red Books. On paper, Repton is England’s best-known and most influential landscape gardener. On the ground,... Read More about Revealing Repton: bringing landscape to life at Sheringham Park.

Knowing weather in place: the Helm Wind of Cross Fell (2014)
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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 s... Read More about Knowing weather in place: the Helm Wind of Cross Fell.

The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship (2014)
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The Landscape and Environment programme was one of the first strategic research programmes to be launched by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) soon after it acquired its royal charter in 2005. In 2010, programme Director Stephen Daniels... Read More about The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship.

The Helm Wind of Cross Fell (2014)
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Crossfell is the highest point along the 268-mile route of the Pennine Way, at 893 metres (Figure 1). The climate of the North Pennines is temperate, with a small area classified as subarctic (Manley, 1936). The hills generally receive more precipita... Read More about The Helm Wind of Cross Fell.

Imagining coastal change: reflections on making a film (2013)
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Geography has a long, if episodic, relationship with film and film-making. In this essay we reflect on the process of making the short film Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations during the first three months of 2012. We discuss some issues arising... Read More about Imagining coastal change: reflections on making a film.