Historical Geography

Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans

Historical Geography, Human Geography | social-networks, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

SPACES OF HOPE: the Hidden History of Community Led Planning in the UK has explored the often-overlooked ways in which local people and organisations have come together to improve their physical and social environments. Since the 1960s a rich but hidden history has emerged of communities campaigning, drawing up their own land-use plans, owning, occupying and developing sites and initiating creative community projects. Bringing together universities, artists and archivists and working in partnership with the Town and Country Planning Association, SPACES OF HOPE: PEOPLES’ PLANS is an AHRC-funded research project that aims to reveal these histories and spark debate about how lessons can be applied to current community place-shaping.

Data type: images, spatial, temporal, text

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Extreme weather in the UK: past, present and future – event details from the TEMPEST database

Historical Geography, Human Geography | 14th century, 15th century, 16th-century, 17th-century, 18th-century, 19th-century, climate change, historical-records, United Kingdom

TEMPEST was designed as a freely accessible and user-friendly database resource on the UK’s weather and climate history. TEMPEST is comprised of narrative accounts of extreme weather events of all types, extracted from documentary materials located in a range of archival repositories in the UK (consequentially, please see the quality statement note below concerning data issues). The information has been extracted from a wide range of documents, including letters, diaries, church records, school log-books and many others. The entries span more than 400 years - some as early as 1346 - of weather history and relate to places across the UK, though the data search was focused in five case-study regions: Central England, Southwest England, East Anglia, Wales, and Northwest Scotland.

Data type: spatial, text

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Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans

Extreme weather in the UK: past, present and future – event details from the TEMPEST database

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