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The surprising story of Delftware
Oct 19
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Hannah Booth
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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…
Oct 12
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Hannah Booth
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All the colours of the sea
What is the colour of the sea?
Sep 7
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Hannah Booth
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Under changing northern skies
Learning the art of stained glass from the neighbours
Jul 13
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Hannah Booth
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How the North Sea oil fields got their names
For as long as we can tell, we humans have named the places important to us in reference to features in the landscape — below that hill there, by this…
Jun 15
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Hannah Booth
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The surprising life of Samuel Laing of Papdale
How an unlikely Orcadian helped launch Viking fever in Victorian Britain
May 4
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Hannah Booth
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'A show of the world in every sense of the word'
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje's visit to Victorian Britain
Apr 12
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Hannah Booth
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The art of the wreck
J. M. W. Turner and Willem van de Velde the Younger
Mar 30
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Hannah Booth
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Weaving a new narrative in gold, silver and silk
Willem van de Velde the Elder and the Solebay Tapestries
Mar 23
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Hannah Booth
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Risking all for three casks of barley
Terje Vigen and the long shadow of the Skagerrak blockade
Feb 9
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Hannah Booth
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A tale of three Margarets through song
Three notable Margarets appear in the historical records of Northwestern Europe in the late-thirteen/early-fourteenth century: a mother and daughter…
Oct 26, 2024
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Hannah Booth
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