Coastal Lives & Livelihoods

Body clocks all at sea

Listening out for the many rhythms of life

Aug 3 •

"Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?"

Fir timbers from the fjords

Jul 27 •

At the mercy of shifting sands

Bruges, Dunwich and the dynamic seabed

Jun 29 •

Stockfish: Britain's culinary ghost

The Norfolk town of King’s Lynn boasts a significant architectural rarity on this side of the North Sea: England’s only surviving example of a Hanseatic…

Jun 22 •

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 •

Shore-strewn seaweed and scattered lives

How the Industrial Revolution came and went on the North Atlantic fringe

Apr 26 •

Risking all for three casks of barley

Terje Vigen and the long shadow of the Skagerrak blockade

Feb 9 •

Through the lens of the lighthouse

Reflections of human nature in and around the North Sea

Feb 3 •

The enduring clout of the North Sea fishwife

Anyone familiar with the North Sea coast is likely to have encounted her at some point, on a windswept promenade or harbourside, silently bidding for…

Oct 20, 2024 •

The risks of living at the water’s edge

1362 and the “Great Drowning of Men”

Nov 3, 2023 •

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