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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 · 5h
Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr

This week's North Sea Nexus post explores the rich linguistic inheritance of words for the watery realm between land and sea
Words of the wetlands
Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr — the languages and dialects which skirt the Southern North Sea abound in labels for the watery realm between land and sea.
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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d
#31DaysOfGraves day 12: notable women. The tomb of Grace Darling at St Aiden's Church, Bamburgh. Grace was the daughter of the lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast and in 1838 took part in a rescue during a storm that brought her national fame.
An elaborate Victorian tomb in a churchyard. The figure of a woman lies inside three arches that support the roof Detail of the head of the figure. Under her mattress the stone is carved with seaweed, a reflection of Grace Darling's connection with the sea. The same tomb in a wider shot. In the distance is the North Sea
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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 23h
Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves - Notable Woman

An unassuming slab of stone off the Fife coast at Torryburn covers the mortal remains of Lilias Adie, the only known grave of an accused witch in Scotland

Buried beneath the tidal line by superstitious villagers in 1704, her grave was rediscovered in 2014
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d
Victorian shipwreck heroine Grace Darling's shawl for auction. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grace Darling's shawl set for auction
Grace Darling is remembered for her bravery after rescuing survivors off the Northumberland coast.
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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 1d
Hall, a Newhaven Fishwife, was photographed by pioneering photographers David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson c.1843-47. We have an ongoing project to mark her burial place more appropriately. #Edinburgh #PhotoHistory #HillAndAdamson #NewhavenFishwives #Newhaven #31daysofgraves 2/2
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the feast day of Saint Wilfrid, founder of the abbey in my home town of Hexham.

This time last year, I wrote about Wilfrid and his fellow Northumbrian Willibrord, and their travels in Frisia.
Northumbrians on tour
Wilfrid and Willibrord in Frisia
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 1d
“Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,
To treat upon this matter, which makes us quake and tremble;
For we shall rue it if’t be true that Fenns be undertaken,
And where we feed in Fen and Reed thei’le feed both Beef and Bacon.”
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 2d
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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Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 1d
Farbe über dem Wattenmeer. 🌊
Colour above the Wadden Sea. 
#eastcoastkin #stunday
#blueskymonday
Ein Sonnenuntergang über dem dunklen Wattenmeer. Im Watt schimmert das Wasser in den Vertiefungen in der Ferne. Am Horizont ist ein orangefarbener Sonnenuntergang und am blauen Himmel sind altrosafarbene Wolken. 
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you!
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 9d
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 · 5d
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 · 4d
🌕 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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 10d
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 · 11d
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 · 13d
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 · 13d
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
London plane tree
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Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 13d
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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