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Alex Hibberts
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PDRA in Early Modern History

Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.

Environmental & Climate Historian. Weather Reconstruction. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/alexander-hibberts/
I'm delighted to announce that I'll be starting a new PDRA position @exeter.ac.uk tomorrow!

AHRC-funded project: Informing Contemporary Land-Use through Sustainability Assessment of Medieval & Early Modern Farming Systems 👩‍🌾🌱🐑🐂

📷 Exeter cathedral nave
September 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I had a fantastic time @eseh.bsky.social 2025 in Uppsala. Incredible setting, fascinating new #envhist research and opportunity to meet new people & catch-up with old friends.

@northernenvhistory.bsky.social @roblnaylor.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Tomorrow at 9am 🕒 (Humanities Theatre, English Park, House 22), come along to our panel on ***New Sources of Early Modern Climate History***!

There'll be:

📘weather diaries
🌊storm surges
🎣fish
💻 climate models

@eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social #envhist
August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Looking forward to presenting on diaries as sources for reconstructing Little Ice Age weather and climate @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala next week! 📕❄️🌡️ #envhist

🖼️ ©️KHLC

@northernenvhistory.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @roblnaylor.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you're interested in early modern meteorology, barometers, naval battles or fish, then come along to my hybrid lecture (link in comments) @unibern.bsky.social !

📆 25/03 🕐 18:15 CET

@northernenvhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In January, I'll be speaking about the importance of placing historical sources in context when reconstructing historic coastal change. 🌊

Sign up below 👇

alexhibberts.co.uk/events/
November 24, 2023 at 3:16 PM
I had an excellent time as visiting speaker at Waterloo University last week! Presented on historic storms, coastal erosion and flooding 🌊

Got to visit Toronto too...

@nichecanada.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social
November 22, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Looking forward to presenting on medieval and early modern storms, storm surges, and costal erosion in a few hours at Waterloo University 🌊

@ahahistorians.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social
November 15, 2023 at 7:18 PM
If you're in Toronto next Wednesday, I'll be speaking about mud, water, wetlands and waves in late medieval and early modern England 🌊

www.dragenlab.ca/news/lecture...

@northernenvhistory.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
November 9, 2023 at 6:33 PM