Georgina H. Endfield is Professor of Environmental History based at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is PI of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project exploring extreme weather events in UK history and is currently President of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology and Editor of The Anthropocene Review.

Lucy Veale is a Research Associate at the School of Geography, University of Liverpool, where she is working on the history of extreme weather events in the UK. Lucy's interests and expertise are in archival research in historical geography, and she has worked on a wide range of projects relating to environmental, landscape and climate history.