All Outputs (3)

Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England (2024)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., & Mottram, S. (in press). Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England. Journal of Historical Geography,

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 business sat u... Read More about Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England.

Watery Archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement (2024)
Journal Article
Worthen, H., & Weatherall, C. (online). Watery Archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement. Area, https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12985

This paper is based on our experience of running a one-day participatory workshop at the Hull History Centre in the summer of 2023 titled “Watery Archives: Exploring Hull’s flood histories”. The event was co-designed by academics and archivists in di... Read More about Watery Archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement.

Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull (2024)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., Mottram, S., & Buxton-Hill, S. (2024). Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull. Environment and History, 30(4), 585-614. https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903577

This paper explores Hull's histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order... Read More about Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull.