Dr Kate Smith K.Smith7@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Flood Risk Management
COAST-R: COastal communities And Seas Together for Resilience Network Plus
People Involved
Dr Gill Hughes G.C.Hughes@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Professor Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Environmental Humanities
Dr Charlotte Hopkins Charlotte.Hopkins@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer Marine Biology
Professor Stuart McLelland S.J.McLelland@hull.ac.uk
Deputy Director of the Energy and Environment Institute
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.2024.12.001The 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.