So, I thought that what the world needs today is a list of mobile medieval queens in Europe, 950-1150. I count 84. #Skystorians, tell me: who have I missed out?
blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...
4 years ago TODAY the discovery of the #Gloucester warship was publicly announced! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I sizzled on Great Yarmouth beach while the team did press interviews & my OA article about the ship's loss in 1682 came out @enghistrev.bsky.social ⚓
academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...
Now reading.
Standing looking out over the North Sea this morning led me to thoughts of how this place got its name - from Old English meaning “stag pool” or the “island of harts” derived from heorot (a hart, or male deer) and pōl (a pool or inlet) - and on to petrified forest and Doggerland.
Professor Claire Jowitt
300 years ago today James Hutton, father of modern geology, was born.
Last year I wrote about his observations at Siccar Point — a glimpse into the abyss of time which would transform how we think about the Earth's past, and liberate the imagination from all previous senses of beginnings and ends.
The origins of modern geology on Scotland's North Sea coast
And a new coastal Deep Time Trail to mark the occasion!
And of course I get the Netherlands in the family world cup sweepstake
#Oranje
The star-shaped fortifications at Naarden in the Netherlands, today's Copernicus Image of the Day: eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...
(European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
"Traditionally the oarfish was known to many as the Herring King, since it was thought to guide the fickle herring shoals through the waves and towards those hungry and waiting along the coast."
From the latest North Sea dispatches: northseanexus.substack.com/p/ghost-nets...
