Hannah Booth

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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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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)

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

London plane tree

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

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.

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

A view from the dunes, hoverfly stopovers and hidden traces of a cosmic encounter North Sea Dispatches #02

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...

Thanks very much, Chris!

A view from the dunes, hoverfly stopovers and hidden traces of a cosmic encounter North Sea Dispatches #02

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...

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

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

⚖️🌊 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

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.

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

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.

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)

These are amazing! 😍 #MarineLife 🌊

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The wall climbing some steep upland crags

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

📷My own, May 2025

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?

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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This portrait, by an unknown artist, now hangs in Utrecht’s Centraal Museum.

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.

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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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 😁

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Looking into the abyss of time The origins of modern geology on Scotland's North Sea coast

This week's North Sea Nexus post takes us to the quiet spot on the Berwickshire coast where, in the late eighteenth century, modern geology and the idea of deep time was born.

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a doorway at ground level, above which, on the upper three levels, are narrow rectangular window openings. It stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro of which a small portion can be seen in my photo on the right hand side. The Pharos is dated 1st century - early 2nd century AD and is one of a pair originally built on the headland flanking each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). It now stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

📷 by me

#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology

Kabinet maakt geld vrij voor grootste schilderij van Nederland In het museum hangt Panorama Mesdag, een 120 meter groot panorama van de Noordzee, Den Haag, Scheveningen en de duinen.

One v. good thing in yesterday’s Dutch budget announcement:
The Panorama Mesdag -an amazing circular painting of Scheveningen beach -will become an official state museum and start getting a subsidy of €1.8 million per year. “It’s the Night Watch of The Hague” the director says
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Oblong stone with a hole bored in its top. It is made from local limestone, indicating the individual's local ties (credit: Lilian Ladle).

A limestone anchor, found being used as a headrest in a burial at the post-Roman cemetery of Worth Matravers, Dorset #TombTuesday
An extremely rare find, it suggests the individual had connections to the sea, perhaps through fishing or trade.

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🏺 #Archaeology

LUG-SAND [lug•-sand] sb. The sand where the lugworm is found by fishermen searching for bait.

Images of the coast of Cadiz, by Braun Georg & Hogenberg Frans. 1623

The depiction of #fishweirs in art from every period reflects their role in the physical and cultural landscape, as well as their economic value in the real world. They serve as both a tangible and abstract representation of human interaction with the ocean. #coastalhistory #fishing
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The Relocation of the Oseberg Ship Is Underway - Museum of the Viking Age Finally, the day has come for Norway's most spectacular moving project: The Oseberg Ship is entering the new museum building. This article will be updated regularly throughout the day.

At a breakneck speed of 0.008 knots (or 25cm/min), the Oseberg ship is once again on the move today, for the first time in almost a century.