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Hannah Booth
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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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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 2h
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 · 2h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 5d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
Thanks very much, Chris!
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
⚖️🌊 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 · 8d
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 · 10d
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 · 13d
These are amazing! 😍 #MarineLife 🌊

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 13d
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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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 13d
What does the future hold for the communities scattered across the Northern and Arctic islands? @thinkuhi.bsky.social Associate Professor Andrew Jennings follows up on the successful symposium held last week.

#sustainability #islands #culture #geopolitics

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An Archipelago of Futures: Navigating the Tides of Change for Northern & Arctic Islands
What does the future hold for the communities scattered across the Northern and Arctic islands?
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 14d
This portrait, by an unknown artist, now hangs in Utrecht’s Centraal Museum.
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 14d
Trijn van Leemput was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Year’s War and became a lasting symbol of Utrecht’s resistance against the Spanish.

According to legend, in 1577 Trijn led a group of women to begin the demolition of the city’s Vredenburg Castle — hence the pickaxe and the brick.
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 16d
This week’s North Sea Nexus post takes in Siccar Point on the Berwickshire coast where, in 1788, the father of modern geology found compelling evidence for the idea of deep time

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 16d
Thank you to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week!

This week's #promptcombo is #ancestry. This piece was published in Freeverse Revolution Issue XII & is something of a letter to my younger self.

Also doubling up as a fairly seamless segue from #history 😁

Tag me/use # to join in
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