{"id":124,"date":"2017-06-02T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:02:08","slug":"the-british-and-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2017\/06\/02\/the-british-and-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The British and the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any foreigner and they\u2019ll say the British are obsessed with the weather. Nowadays we can access an up-to-date, worldwide forecast at any time and, being British, we love to talk or moan about it.<\/p>\n<p>However this is not a new phenomenon. Details of the weather over the last couple of centuries can be found in various sources at Dorset History Centre such as Newspapers, Farmers\/Game Keepers\/Hunting Records, Police Beat Books, Letters, Diaries, Journals, Parish Records and School Log Books and date back to the 17<sup>th<\/sup> Century. These records can vary from just being a one word description, e.g. sunny, to detailed accounts of the weather for that day.<\/p>\n<p>They are also not limited to Dorset with details of weather whilst on holidays or traveling abroad recorded in some of the records.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes weather can also be found in relation to other events. Such is the case of Thomas Abbot\u2019s burial on 18<sup>th<\/sup> August 1871 in Halstock who \u201cdrowned in the Great Flood of 14<sup>th<\/sup> August 1871\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"longdesc-return-228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2018\/05\/D-DPA-1-BT-40-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of a rough sea breaking over West Pier, West Bay, 1930s\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog?longdesc=228&amp;referrer=124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2018\/05\/D-DPA-1-BT-40-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2018\/05\/D-DPA-1-BT-40-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2018\/05\/D-DPA-1-BT-40-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rough sea breaking over West Pier, West Bay, 1930s, reference: D-DPA\/1\/BT\/40<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any foreigner and they\u2019ll say the British are obsessed with the weather. Nowadays we can access an up-to-date, worldwide forecast at any time and, being British, we love to talk or moan about it. However this is not a new phenomenon. Details of the weather over the last couple of centuries can be found&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2017\/06\/02\/the-british-and-the-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The British and the weather<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}