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Exploring images of snow and winter past

Previously I posted about the collection of digital composite images that I’ve created as part of the Snow Scenes project. The images, all created from photographs held in the archives at the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry merged with their modern day locations, are now available for online viewing in the gallery below. Currently …

Bringing archival images to life

Alongside collecting all of our participants’ written and oral memories relating to snow and winters past in Cumbria, the Snow Scenes team have been busy exploring how these memories relate and connect to archival records. It was whilst conducting part of this archival research that I came across the Cumbrian photographer Joseph Hardman and his …

Come and participate in person

Do you or anyone you know live in the Eden Valley district or the surrounding area? If so, Snow Scenes would love to invite you to an evening of memories of Cumbrian winters past being held at the Tufton Arms Hotel in Appleby-in-Westmorland next Thursday the 12th December at 7:30pm. The evening is a chance …

How we’re collecting your snow memories

Just a quick post, to share the below poster which I have created for display in the School of Geography at Nottingham, where Snow Scenes is based. In addition to introducing the project, the poster shows how we are collecting memories online (through this site and Twitter) and directly in Cumbrian communities, and also how …

On extremes….

The St Jude storm has once again brought climate extremes to the fore in the UK press. I thought it may be timely to use this as an opportunity to provide a bit of context for our project. My point of departure in all this is the difficulty we have in defining what extreme actually …

Snow imagery from the archives…

After joining the Snow Scenes project team in early September, I have spent the last few weeks immersed in a number of archives, searching for discussion, meteorological measurement, images, videos and audio recordings of all things snow and Cumbria related. From wonderful online resources like the British Pathé site, which features over 90,000 clips of …

Snow Scenes welcomes a new member to the team!

We would like to welcome Alexander Hall to the Snow Scenes team.   Alexander has joined the team as a Research Assistant. Having recently worked as digital and social media coordinator for the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine he will be bringing his experience of blogs, social media, and other …

‘Talking Weather’

“If a census were taken of common topics of conversation amongst British people, it is very probable that the weather would take first place” (Manley, G.V (1952) Climate and the British Scene, Collins: 13) This week Georgina and I have been making final preparations for a workshop on ‘Talking Weather’. The event will be held …

Gordon Manley and Snow

Much of the ‘Weather Walks’ project was focused around the archives of the climatologist Gordon Manley. His work on snow will inform form part of ‘Snow Scenes’ and was certainly a source of inspiration for the project at the application stage, so I thought it would be a good idea to write a short post …

The National Snow Survey of Great Britain

Throughout the project we’ll be exploring some of the sources that can be used to explore past snow events in Britain. The subject of today’s post is the National Snow Survey of Great Britain. At one of the first meetings of the Association for the Study of Snow and Ice held in October 1937, members …