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Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain and its North Sea neighbours Substack: https://northseanexus.substack.com Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

Navigating North Sea Nexus

Start here!

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 58m

Thank you!

Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 8h

On this day in 1677 Cornelius Vermuyden died in London, a Dutch-born engineer who had been tasked with draining the watery fens and levels of eastern England.

As I wrote last year, Vermuyden’s fenland exploits provide a cautionary tale for those wading into unfamiliar landscapes.

A cautionary tale from an unfamiliar landscape

Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the Fens

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 7d

The UK’s east coast is one of the fastest eroding in Europe. As more storms approach, those losing everything to flooding feel abandoned, writes Katharine Quarmby.

The hell of high water

The UK’s east coast is the fastest eroding in Europe. As more storms approach, those losing everything to flooding feel abandoned

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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 3d

The bizarre story of a cricket club’s balloon and its journey across the North Sea.
An inadvertent cricketing message in a bottle. #scarborough #germany #cricket

The Balloon of the Century

Scarborough Cricket Club's Inflatable and a German Beach!

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Weather & Radar @weatherandradar.bsky.social · 2d

🌕 Tuesday's supermoon loomed over the North Sea in this magnificent shot captured on the east coast!

Send in your pics: www.weatherandradar.co.uk/upload

#Moon #Supermoon #FullMoon

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 3d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so thrilled that Sam Jones's article on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has been published. hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hs.... We lost her too early. #CoastalHistory #RNLI

Heroes and Villains: The Victorian Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Everyday Heroism | Histoire sociale / Social History

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 4d

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4d

Newcastle upon Tyne from the East, painting by Niels Møller Lund, 1863-1916 (Laing Art Gallery). Danish-born, grew up in Newcastle. #NorthernArt

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Ipswich Museums @ipswichmuseums.bsky.social · 5d

These blue and white delft tiles are more than decoration: they’re snapshots of 17th- and 18th-century taste, trade, and storytelling. Imported from the Netherlands, delftware tiles were popular for their gleaming tin-glazed surfaces and crisp cobalt designs.

Delft tile with a landscape scene of three figures crossing a bridge under a tree, buildings and a boat in the background. All are hand-painted in blue on a white background.

Delft tile showing a fisherman on a riverbank, with sailing boat, ducks and a distant town.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 6d

Aerial view of The Run at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk - where the tide carves through the shifting sands between Wells Beach & Bob Hall’s Sand, opening into the North Sea. #aerial #image #Coast #Norfolk #WellsNextTheSea

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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert @jshphotog.bsky.social · 8d

Braer Oil Disaster, Shetland, 1993 - Photo-essay of that week in January ‘93 when #Shetland feared a huge environmental disaster, brought out of the #archives and now available as a #photozine. www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/photography-... #photography #photobook #Scotland #ShetlandIsles #zine

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

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The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

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Mainz University @mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 11d

TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d...

#DFG #Geography #Archaeology

Traces of a lost medieval settlement in the tidal flats near the island of Hallig Südfall (photo/©: Bente Majchczack)

Examining the remains of the former church of Rungholt in the tidal flats off Hallig Südfall (photo/©: Dirk Bienen-Scholt)

With the help of the techniques of geophysics and coring, it is possible to detect cultural remains that would otherwise be inaccessible by archeological excavations. (photo/©: Hanna Hadler)

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 11d

London plane (Platanus x hispanica) - The Historic Dockyard Chatham, the Kingdom of Kent

The Dockyard built ships for the Royal Navy for several hundred years, and this tree is likely as old as the most famous of them all, built yards away from the tree. HMS Victory

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Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 10d

Jung, wild und dynamisch
40 Jahre Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer. 🌊

Young, wild and dynamic
40 years of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park.
#eastcoastkin #waterwednesday

Das Wattenmeer bei auflaufendem Wasser. Im Vordergrund ist Watt, danach befindet sich Gras im Wasser. Weiter entfernt sind Lahnungen zu erkennen. Der Himmel ist blau und der Horizont ist orangefarben.

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 11d

It's the end of the month, and my latest roundup of news stories from the North Sea is out!

September’s dispatches span the panoramic, the far-flung and even the extra-terrestrial...

A view from the dunes, hoverfly stopovers and hidden traces of a cosmic encounter

North Sea Dispatches #02

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks very much, Chris!

Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 11d

It's the end of the month, and my latest roundup of news stories from the North Sea is out!

September’s dispatches span the panoramic, the far-flung and even the extra-terrestrial...

A view from the dunes, hoverfly stopovers and hidden traces of a cosmic encounter

North Sea Dispatches #02

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Simeon Kerr @simeonkerr.bsky.social · 12d

How Europe’s ‘oil capital’ glory days were ended by the global oil crash

The decline of North Sea industry in Scotland has triggered Aberdeen’s economic downturn

How Europe’s ‘oil capital’ glory days were ended by the global oil crash

[FREE TO READ] The decline of North Sea industry in Scotland has triggered Aberdeen’s economic downturn

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Doggerland Foundation @doggerland-fdn.bsky.social · 12d

⚖️🌊 Together with ARK Rewilding NL, we faced the Dutch government in court over weak management plans for Dogger Bank, Cleaver Bank & Frisian Front. These fail to protect nature as required by law. A ruling is due in 6–12 weeks. We’re hopeful for a win for North Sea life! 👉 shorturl.at/vTYhe

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BobaFella @bobafella.bsky.social · 11d

A drone was observed near a Norwegian oil installation in the North Sea tonight www.nrk.no/rogaland/mel...

Melding om droneobservasjon ved Sleipner-plattforma

Tilsette ved Sleipner-plattforma har meldt frå om observasjonar av ein drone. Operasjonsleiar Roger Litlatun stadfestar at dei har starta undersøkingar.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 13d

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 16d

These are amazing! 😍 #MarineLife 🌊

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 16d

The impressive northern border of Hadrian's Wall near The Sill, Northumberland, for #RomanFortThursday

📷My own, May 2025

The wall climbing some steep upland crags

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