Further Resources

This course is a product of the Nordic Little Ice Age (NORLIA) research project at the Oslo Centre for Advanced Study. You can learn more at our website: https://cas-nor.no/project/nordic-little-ice-age-1300-1900-norlia. 

This course is hosted on the Climate History Network (http://www.climatehistory.net/), a network and collection of resources for researchers interested in past climate and human history. It also includes a bibliographical database of publications in the field.

The Climate Chronicles https://theclimatechronicles.com/ is a podcast and website that tells the story of climate change and human history since prehistoric times, hosted by historian Dagomar Degroot.

The Little Ice Age: How did we handle the last climate crisis? Is an online version of an exhibition created for the Climate House of the Oslo Museum of Natural History (in Norwegian). https://www.norgeshistorie.no/undervisningsopplegg/1500-1800/den-lille-istiden.html

For more resources on Norwegian history, including experiences of the Little Ice Age, see https://www.norgeshistorie.no/ (In Norwegian)

For a student-friendly introduction to climate history, try Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon, Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present, 2nd ed. (Bloomsbury, 2022).

For an in-depth collection of studies about past climate and society in the Nordic countries, see Dominik Collet et al., eds., Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives (White Horse Press, 2025), https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/.

For a research bibliography and guide to publications on methods in historical climatology, see Samuel White et al., “Methodological Innovations in the History of Climate and Society Studies,” Oxford Bibliographies, ahead of print, June 20, 2025, https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780197768709-0024.