Today stories and movies about the apocalypse are ubiqius. Fueled by climate anxiety and a general sense of uncertainty and instability, the genre is in high demand. But this has not always been the case! Only very recently, in the second half of the 19. century...
Extreme Weather and politics in Britain in 1952 as seen in the series The Crown. This is from Season 1, episode 4, released in 2016.
Sculpture of fish god from Lepenski Vir, likely to have been part of the people’s spiritual responses to flooding. Credit: Mickey Mystique/Wikimedia Commons In a beautiful article from 2019, Patrick Nunn gives a couple of examples for protection architecture that...
This is the introduction to "Pharos and Pharillon" a book by British writer and literary critic E.M. Forster about Alexandria. The book was published in 1923. Forster was stationed in Alexandria during his service in the British military and wrote two books about the...
In an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2023, contemporary British artist Emma Stibbon exhibited her own wood carving "Collapsed Whaling Station" alongside a selection of works from the Royal Academy collection. All art works depict extreme weather events...
The image shows the painting by painter William Daniell of the Eddystone Lighthouse off Rame Head in Cornwall, England during the ‘Great Storm’ of 1824. Daniell exhibited the painting for the first time in 1825.
"Statues of Memnon at Thebes, during The Inundation", a lithography from 1848 by Scottish artist David Roberts. It appeared in Roberts book on the Nile region entitled "Egypt & Nubia" published in London the same year. The flooding of the Nile has been an...
"When you could walk from London to Paris to get a Croissant for breakfast..." (Jeff Goodell) Land bridge between the mainland and Britain - Doggerland and Dogger Bank. Comparison of the geographical situation in 2000 to the late years of the Vistula-Würm Glaciation....
The 19. Century was not only the century of industrialization, the spark that "set human civilization aflame" (Andri Snaer Magnason). Between 1800 and 1815 half a dozen large volcanic eruptions all across the globe significantly changed the climate in China as well as...