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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 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 …

‘Weather Walks, Weather Talks’ and the ‘Snows of Yesteryear’

So, why is winter weather, and particularly snow, our focus for this project? The project is the result of a collaboration between two projects previously funded by AHRC under their call for ‘Enhancing the Role of Arts and Humanities Perspectives on Environmental Values and Change’, part of the Care for the Future theme. Both projects …

The Snow Scenes team

As we explained in the previous blog, ‘Snow Scenes’ is a collaborative project involving researchers at the University of Nottingham, Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales, and the University of Glasgow. Meet the team: At the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham: Georgina Endfield georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk Georgina is Primary Investigator for the project and …

Introducing Snow Scenes

Welcome to the ‘Snow Scenes’ project blog and thank you for reading. ‘Snow Scenes: Exploring the Role of Place in Weather Memories’ is an AHRC funded project running from March 2013-April 2014. The project is a collaboration between the University of Nottingham, Aberystwyth University and the University of Wales, working in partnership with the Royal …