Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title)

Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo

We invite contributions to this planned open access sourcebook, which aims to present and analyse a diverse range of primary sources that reveal embodied, scientific and cultural knowledges in histories of weather and weathering. Focusing on the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries, the book aims to be geographically diverse and to include textual, visual, audio and material sources that record or were shaped by different forms of knowledge and experience — from scientific measurement to bodily sensation, from quotidian cultural practices to folklore and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge.

Types of contribution: We are open to contributions of different lengths, between c. 800 and 5,000 words, depending on the source(s) presented and the analysis offered. We also welcome essays that reflect on the significance, and offer guidance for the use, of particular types of source.

Further details: Please see the full Call for Contributions for more information about the book’s themes and aims, the range of sources and types of analysis we have in mind, the planned timetable, and how to submit queries or contributions.

Deadline: Potential contributors should submit a proposal of 500-800 words by 4 September 2026, giving a short outline of the planned contribution, including preliminary analytic ideas and an estimation of length. If your proposal is accepted, we anticipate a deadline of 12 March 2027 for the submission of full texts and images.

Feature Image: Meteorology: atmospheric effects. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1846, after himself. Date:20 September 1846. Wellcome Collection 46556i.