All Outputs (3)

Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England (2025)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., & Mottram, S. (2025). Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England. Journal of Historical Geography, 89, 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.001

The paper explores how early modern people lived with and responded to extraordinary flood events at a time of environmental, social and political crisis. By focusing on a period when flood risk management ‘failed’ and houses, land and businesses sat... Read More about Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England.

Time, Tide, and Tempestuous Flooding: ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in an Age of Storms (2025)
Journal Article
Mottram, S., McDonagh, B., & Worthen, H. (online). Time, Tide, and Tempestuous Flooding: ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in an Age of Storms. Review of English Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgaf012

Why might Marvell complain ‘by the tide | Of Humber’ in ‘To his Coy Mistress’? This article reads these lines in light of little-known records of flood risk management, housed at East Riding of Yorkshire Archives, Beverley, to uncover a new approach... Read More about Time, Tide, and Tempestuous Flooding: ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in an Age of Storms.

Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093 (2025)
Report
Smith, K., McLelland, S., Davidson, G., & McDonagh, B. (2025). Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093

Opening paragraph:
The Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull has a research focus encompassing many of the challenges highlighted by this inquiry’s terms of reference. We work in inter- and transdisciplinary ways on a range of f... Read More about Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093.