The non-climatic research potential of ships' logbooks and journals

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Wilkinson, Clive (2005) The non-climatic research potential of ships' logbooks and journals. Climatic Change, 73. pp. 155-167. ISSN 0165-0009

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Abstract

The large-scale study of ship's logbooks for climatic data has revealed the wide and varied potential of this under-exploited resource for the study of the past. As well as being of utility to climatologists, the daily recording of shipboard information can help illuminate a number of themes of interest to maritime and naval historians. More than this, however, such studies can help inform both more general and other specialized historical studies. Logbooks contain both anecdotal and statistical data relevant to the studies of medical historians, the history of science and navigation, social history, economic history, warfare, imperial history and of course environmental history. Moreover, many of these themes can be studied in a multi-national context and furthermore, if studied in a multi-disciplinary context, can offer many useful insights.

Item Type:	Article
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-6947-...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2021 01:13
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 14:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78369
DOI:	10.1007/s10584-005-6947-3

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