Recreating historical floods to raise awareness of today’s changing climate.

Our work is helping advance knowledge and understanding of how we can learn from the past to live with the risks of flooding today.

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We work across the humanities and environmental sciences and collaborate with digital industries to foreground the history of flooding and its role in raising awareness of the risks of flooding today. view all resources.

Rising Tide of Humber 360 VR film

This 360 VR film captures footage from the virtual model of the seventeenth-century town of Hull…

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Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR

This project recreates in virtual reality one well-documented historical flood of Hull from 1646-47.

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Recreating an historical storm surge from 1646 in 360 VR

Take a trip back in time and visit Hull in winter 1646…

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Who we are

Our work is helping advance knowledge and understanding of how we can learn from the past to live with the risks of flooding today.

We bring together expertise from across the humanities and environmental sciences.

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Our core team combines research strengths in English Literature, Historical Geography, Physical Geography, and Environmental Science.

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We work with schools, museums, science fairs, and arts festivals to foreground the history of flooding and its role in raising awareness of flood risks today.

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Discover how water has shaped the literature, history, and culture of regions that have historically lived with flood risk and remain at risk of flooding today.

Andrew Marvell and Hull

Andrew Marvell and Hull

Detail from Wenceslaus Hollar, Map of Hull (c. 1640). Hull History Centre, U DDMM/33/8.  Dr Stewart Mottram, Reader in English at the University of Hull, explores poet Andrew Marvell’s early…

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Rising Tide of Humber 360 VR film

Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR

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E: s.mottram@hull.ac.uk

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