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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.

Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell's Links to Non-Trinitarians (2024)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2024). Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell's Links to Non-Trinitarians. Notes and queries, 71(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae119

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Scholars have long been aware of connections between the poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78), his father, the Reverend Andrew Marvell (1584–1641), and the branch of non-Trinitarianism known as Socinianism. Marvell the poet was accused... Read More about Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell's Links to Non-Trinitarians.

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.