Hannah Booth
@hannahbooth.bsky.social
Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned editor & communication coach
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
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Hannah Booth
@hannahbooth.bsky.social
· Jun 8
Navigating North Sea Nexus
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northseanexus.substack.com
Introducing North Sea Nexus, a Substack exploring Britain’s ties with our North Sea neighbours, past and present.
Click the link to browse by theme:
🖌️ Art, Words & Music
🌊 Coastal Lives & Livelihoods
🪵 Materials, Makers & Merchants
🌱 Nature & Landscape
🧳 Religion & Exile
🕊️ War, Peace & Diplomacy
Click the link to browse by theme:
🖌️ Art, Words & Music
🌊 Coastal Lives & Livelihoods
🪵 Materials, Makers & Merchants
🌱 Nature & Landscape
🧳 Religion & Exile
🕊️ War, Peace & Diplomacy
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27 Nov 1703 (O.S.) // The Great Storm of 1703 swept across southern England from the Bristol Channel to the Thames Estuary during the night of 26/27 November. Damage was widespread and many ships were lost, wrecked, and sunk, including the following 13 vessels of the #RoyalNavy. [1/9]
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
27 Nov 1703 (O.S.) // The Great Storm of 1703 swept across southern England from the Bristol Channel to the Thames Estuary during the night of 26/27 November. Damage was widespread and many ships were lost, wrecked, and sunk, including the following 13 vessels of the #RoyalNavy. [1/9]
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November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Map of the day:
Germany’s river basins, including the Rhine (gold), Danube (green) and Elbe (purple)
Germany’s river basins, including the Rhine (gold), Danube (green) and Elbe (purple)
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Map of the day:
Germany’s river basins, including the Rhine (gold), Danube (green) and Elbe (purple)
Germany’s river basins, including the Rhine (gold), Danube (green) and Elbe (purple)
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Today in 1944, at Roermond in the Netherlands, sound recordist Lt Peter Handford points his microphone at 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, and captures their singing at an open air church service. 🔊 #history #ww2
Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Today in 1944, at Roermond in the Netherlands, sound recordist Lt Peter Handford points his microphone at 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, and captures their singing at an open air church service. 🔊 #history #ww2
Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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'I crumbed together my research into North Sea fish species, North Atlantic trade, and late-medieval environmental crisis around the medieval North Sea basin with my embodied experience of walking in the fens south of Grimsby.'
Our latest MMM blog post by poet Becca Drake is out now! 👇
Our latest MMM blog post by poet Becca Drake is out now! 👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Becca Drake — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...
www.guildmedmak.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
'I crumbed together my research into North Sea fish species, North Atlantic trade, and late-medieval environmental crisis around the medieval North Sea basin with my embodied experience of walking in the fens south of Grimsby.'
Our latest MMM blog post by poet Becca Drake is out now! 👇
Our latest MMM blog post by poet Becca Drake is out now! 👇
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Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
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View of the Fish Market at the Damsluis on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), 1611
(Rijksmuseum)
(Rijksmuseum)
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
View of the Fish Market at the Damsluis on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), 1611
(Rijksmuseum)
(Rijksmuseum)
"It is in times of fog that the navigator must be given the greatest protection. As this is impossible to accomplish visually, appeal must be made to his ear." — Frederick A. Talbot writing in 1913.
From this week's post on gongs, bells and foghorns — the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
From this week's post on gongs, bells and foghorns — the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
Waves upon waves
Lost sounds between shore and sea
northseanexus.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"It is in times of fog that the navigator must be given the greatest protection. As this is impossible to accomplish visually, appeal must be made to his ear." — Frederick A. Talbot writing in 1913.
From this week's post on gongs, bells and foghorns — the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
From this week's post on gongs, bells and foghorns — the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
When was the last time you noticed a foghorn on a trip to the coast?
This week’s North Sea Nexus offering from me, on gongs, bells, diaphones and nautophones —the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
This week’s North Sea Nexus offering from me, on gongs, bells, diaphones and nautophones —the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
Waves upon waves
Lost sounds between shore and sea
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November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
When was the last time you noticed a foghorn on a trip to the coast?
This week’s North Sea Nexus offering from me, on gongs, bells, diaphones and nautophones —the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
This week’s North Sea Nexus offering from me, on gongs, bells, diaphones and nautophones —the many lost sounds between shore and sea.
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The German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea en route to the Firth of Forth, where it would surrender on 21 November 1918, before sailing up to Scapa Flow for internment. Flying overhead is the Royal Navy airship NS8.
📸 IWM Q 19293
📸 IWM Q 19293
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea en route to the Firth of Forth, where it would surrender on 21 November 1918, before sailing up to Scapa Flow for internment. Flying overhead is the Royal Navy airship NS8.
📸 IWM Q 19293
📸 IWM Q 19293
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Early medieval silver ring, found in the Thames, dated c.770-850CE, the period of Viking raids on Britain.
Perhaps it was lost in some desperate battle on the riverside or dropped from a bag of stolen silver.
Or just lost after a drunken evening. So many possible stories...
(V&A, 📷 mine)
Perhaps it was lost in some desperate battle on the riverside or dropped from a bag of stolen silver.
Or just lost after a drunken evening. So many possible stories...
(V&A, 📷 mine)
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Early medieval silver ring, found in the Thames, dated c.770-850CE, the period of Viking raids on Britain.
Perhaps it was lost in some desperate battle on the riverside or dropped from a bag of stolen silver.
Or just lost after a drunken evening. So many possible stories...
(V&A, 📷 mine)
Perhaps it was lost in some desperate battle on the riverside or dropped from a bag of stolen silver.
Or just lost after a drunken evening. So many possible stories...
(V&A, 📷 mine)
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Don't have the words to convey how cool this is
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Don't have the words to convey how cool this is
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Pope Sergius I consecrated Willibrord archbishop of the Frisians at the old church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, #OTD in 695. He gave the Northumbrian missionary the Roman name Clemens. Early medieval Rome 📸Roberto Meneghini & Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani #medievalsky
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Pope Sergius I consecrated Willibrord archbishop of the Frisians at the old church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, #OTD in 695. He gave the Northumbrian missionary the Roman name Clemens. Early medieval Rome 📸Roberto Meneghini & Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani #medievalsky
Not stars in the night sky but rather clusters of offshore wind turbines in the Southern North Sea, and the ships steering their course around them.
Yesterday's image of the day from Copernicus, acquired by a Sentinel-1 satellite on 15 October 2025.
Yesterday's image of the day from Copernicus, acquired by a Sentinel-1 satellite on 15 October 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Not stars in the night sky but rather clusters of offshore wind turbines in the Southern North Sea, and the ships steering their course around them.
Yesterday's image of the day from Copernicus, acquired by a Sentinel-1 satellite on 15 October 2025.
Yesterday's image of the day from Copernicus, acquired by a Sentinel-1 satellite on 15 October 2025.
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Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
An appropriately wet morning in the Netherlands for the anniversary of the 1421 St Elizabeth’s Flood, which flooded parts of Holland and Zeeland — some of which are still under water today.
These panel paintings from 70 years or so later depict the flooded villages and polders around Dordrecht.
These panel paintings from 70 years or so later depict the flooded villages and polders around Dordrecht.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
An appropriately wet morning in the Netherlands for the anniversary of the 1421 St Elizabeth’s Flood, which flooded parts of Holland and Zeeland — some of which are still under water today.
These panel paintings from 70 years or so later depict the flooded villages and polders around Dordrecht.
These panel paintings from 70 years or so later depict the flooded villages and polders around Dordrecht.
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Cancelled flight and several long hours to wait around in limbo — all softened by the fact that the one tiny airport bookshop had something I’ve been looking out for for a good while!
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cancelled flight and several long hours to wait around in limbo — all softened by the fact that the one tiny airport bookshop had something I’ve been looking out for for a good while!
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Ein Priel fließt durch die Salzwiesen der Nordsee. ☀️
A tidal creek flows through the salt meadows of the North Sea.
#blueskyartshow #bright #eastcoastkin #stunday
#coloraday #greensat
A tidal creek flows through the salt meadows of the North Sea.
#blueskyartshow #bright #eastcoastkin #stunday
#coloraday #greensat
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Ein Priel fließt durch die Salzwiesen der Nordsee. ☀️
A tidal creek flows through the salt meadows of the North Sea.
#blueskyartshow #bright #eastcoastkin #stunday
#coloraday #greensat
A tidal creek flows through the salt meadows of the North Sea.
#blueskyartshow #bright #eastcoastkin #stunday
#coloraday #greensat
Utrecht's Domtoren — always a good reminder of the importance of looking up now and then
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Utrecht's Domtoren — always a good reminder of the importance of looking up now and then
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A strange 'sea monster' (squidlike?) caught by fishermen on the North Sea between Scheveningen and Katwijk, #otd 12 Nov 1661. (Rijksmuseum)
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A strange 'sea monster' (squidlike?) caught by fishermen on the North Sea between Scheveningen and Katwijk, #otd 12 Nov 1661. (Rijksmuseum)
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North Norfolk coast in summer — taken off Sidestrand, looking east toward Mundesley. Fertile, green fields meet the deep blue of the North Sea, where erosion is steadily reshaping this striking stretch of coastline. #Norfolk #Aerial #image #NorthNorfolk #Coast
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
North Norfolk coast in summer — taken off Sidestrand, looking east toward Mundesley. Fertile, green fields meet the deep blue of the North Sea, where erosion is steadily reshaping this striking stretch of coastline. #Norfolk #Aerial #image #NorthNorfolk #Coast