by Tom Blass
Leicester, Earl of, here
Leigh-on-Sea, here
Lenemann, Christiane, here
Leo of Caprivi, Count, here
Leopold I, King of the Belgians, here
Lerwick, here, here, here, here
L’Estrange, Robert, here
Lewis (cook on Longstone), here, here, here
Libau, here
Linda, here
Lindisfarne, here
Linklater, Eric, here
literacy and illiteracy, here, here
Lloyd George, David, here
Lockwood, Pilgrim, here
Lody, Carl, here
Lomax, Alan, here
Longstone, here, here
Lorella, here
Low, George, here
Lowestoft, here, here, here, here
Lowestoft, Battle, of, here
Lumey, Baron, here
Lund, Ole Christian, here
lures, here
Mablethorpe, here
Madsen, Karl, here
Magnus, Moritz, here
malaria, here, here
mammoth skulls, here
Marcellus, here
Marchioness disaster, here
Mare Frisium, here
Mare Germanicum, here
Margate, here
Maris, Arend, here, here
Marsh Arabs, here
Martello towers, here, here
Martinen, Hark, here
Maunsell forts, here
Medway Raid, here, here
Meinhof, Ulrike, here
Mersea estuary, here, here, here
Middelburg, here
Middelstum, Baron of, here
Minto sinking, here, here
Moller, Martha and Henriette, here
‘moorlog’, here
Mörder auf Amrum, here
Morewood, Elizabeth, here
mudlarks, here
Munch, Edvard, here
Mungard, Jens Emil, here
Nachtsprung, here
Napoleon Bonaparte, here, here, here
naval expansion, German, here, here
navigation, here, here, here, here
Nebel, here
Neill, Patrick, here
Neuk of Fife, here, here
Newquay, here
Nicolson, James, here, here
Nieuwpoort, here
‘Noah’s Woods’, here, here
Nolde, Emil, here
Norderney, here, here
Nordern Lights Pub, here, here
Nordzee Krimi, here
North Sea crabs, here
Notts County, here
nuclear power stations, here, here
Oceanus Britannicus, here
O’Connor, James, here
Odinn, here
Oerla, here
oil industry, here, here, here
and Scottish independence, here, here
Oland, here
Olivier, Richard, here
Oranje Mill, here
Oseberg ship, here
Ostend, here, here, here, here
aquarium, here
artists, here, here, here, here
dialect, here
fishermen’s demonstration, here
and Marvin Gaye, here
shipwrecks, here
Othona Community, here
Owen, Daniel, here
oyster fishing, here, here
paddle steamers, here
Palmerston, Lord, here, here
Paris cabarets, here
Parma, Duke of, here, here
Paulsen, Anne, here
Pellworm, here
Pepys, Samuel, here
Peremans, Mrs, here
Permeke, Constant, here
Phoenicians, here
Picts, here, here, here
Piepgras, Matthias, here
Pingel, Fiete, here
Piper Alpha disaster, here, here
piracy, here, here, here
Pitt, William, here
Pittenweem, here
Plato, here
Pliny the Elder, here, here, here, here
Pompompfl, here
Pool, Acting Air Mechanic Charles, here
postcards, saucy, here
Prescott, John, here
Primitive Methodists, here
Princess Alice disaster, here
prostitutes, here, here, here, here
puffin wrecks, here
Punch, here
pyromancy, here
Pytheas of Marseille, here
Quabeldrank (death by drowning), here
Quin, Windham, here
Rackham, Arthur, here
Radiant Star, here, here, here
Ramsgate, here, here
Ravenser Odd, here, here
Ray’s bream, here
Reid, Clement, here, here
Richardson, Robert, here
Ripking, Dr, here
Ripperda, Wigbolt, here
Rishøj, Tage, here
rites de passage, here
Robin Hood’s Bay, here, here
Roderigo, here
Rodger, N. A. M., here
Rohl, Klaus Rainer, here
Romans, here, here, here, here, here
Rops, Felicien, here
Rosherville Pleasure Gardens, here
Ross Cleveland, here
Rousseau, Ernest, jr, here
‘Royal Fish’, here
Rozhestvensky, Admiral, here
Rügen, here
Rungholt, here, here
St Hans Day celebrations, here
St-Peter-on-the-Wall chapel, here, here
St Petersburg, here
St Romanus, here
St Wilibrod, here
Salcombe, here
Salisbury, Lord, here, here
samphire gatherers, here
Sarah, here, here
Saxons, here
Scarborough, here, here, here
shelling of, here
Scheldt, River, here, here, here, here
Schevening, here
Schiermonnikoog, here, here, here
Schleswig-Holstein, here, here, here, here, here, here
Schlüttsiel, here, here
Schultze-Naumburg, Artur, here
Scots, here
sea beggars (Watergeuzen), here
seabed, mapping of, here
Sealand, here
seaside holidays, here
and anti-Semitism, here
Seddon, Harry, here
Shakespeare, William, here
Sharp, Dr Benjamin, here, here
Shetland, here
diet, here
language, here, here, here
music and song, here
and oil industry, here
and Scottish independence, here
swimming pools, here
whitefish boats, here
and Vikings, here, here, here
Shingle Street, here
ship burials, here
Shoeburyness, here
Silver Pit, here
Simpson, Charlie, here
Skagagrunn, here
Skagen, here, here
artists, here, here, here, here
‘blue time’, here
Skagerrak, here, here
Skegness, here, here
Skene, Danus, here, here
slipper limpets, here
Slooe Channel, here
Small Gains Creek, here
Smith, George Henry, here
Smollett, Tobias, here
smuggling, here
Solon, here
Somerset Levels, here
spa resorts, here, here, here
Spanuth, Jürgen, here
spies, here, here
Spilliaert, Leon, here, here, here
Springer, Axel, here
Spurn Point, here, here, here, here
‘law of the dunes’, here
lifeboats and crews, here, here
lost villages, here
ornithology, here
spoils of shipwrecks, here
stranded whales, here
sunset, here
teachers’ log, here
Staithes, here
Stamford Bridge, Battle of, here
Stanley, Mark, here
Steenvoorden, Dave, here, here
Steigl, Friedemann von, here
Storm, Theodor, and, here, here, here, here, here
Schimmelreiter, here, here, here
Strandkorben, here
Strindberg, August, here
submarines (and U-boats), here, here, here, here, here, here
Sullom Voe, here, here
superstitions, here, here, here
Sutton Hoo burial, here
Swabians, here
Swart Bank, here
Swinburne, A. G., here
Sylt, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and creation myths, here
Tanumshede carvings, here, here
terpen, here, here, here, here
Terschelling, here, here, here
Texel, here, here, here, here
Texel, Battle of, here
Thames, River, here, here, here, here
Thames barges, here
Thames Barrier, here
Thames estuary, here, here
airport plan, here
Thames Gateway, here
Thatcher, Margaret, here, here
Thing courts, here, here
Thurrock, here
Tilbury, here
Tirpitz, Admiral von, here
Toorop, Jan, here
Trafalgar, Battle of, here
Trench, Captain, here
trowies, here, here
Tunstall, Jeremy, here, here
Turner, J. M. W., here, here
Two Tree Island, here
U-boats, see submarines
‘Unst Boat Song’, here
Valkyrie, here
Van de Noort, Robert, here, here
Van Halem, Dr, here
Van Rysselberghe, Théo, here
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, here
Vermuyden, Cornelius, here
Versace, Gianni, here
Victoria, Queen, here, here, here
Vikings, here, here, here, here, here, here
Vlissingen (Flushing), here, here, here, here, here
Vuijsje, Herman, here
Walcheren, here
Walcheren Sickness (Flushing Fever), here
Walker, Alastair, here
Wangerooge, here, here
War of the Spanish Succession, here
Warften, see Halligen
Warren, here
water voles, here
Watersnoodramp, here
Wattenmeer, here, here
Weber, William, here
Weimar Germany, here
well-boats, here
West Kapelle, here
Westcliff-on-Sea, here
whales, here, here
whaling, Shetlanders and, here
Whitby, here, here, here, here, here, here
shelling of, here
Wilgils, here, here
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, here, here, here
William of Orange, here
William the Silent, here, here
Willis, William, here
Wilson, Charles, here
Wilson, Daniel, here
Wilson, Harold, here, here
wind energy, here, here, here
Withernsea, here
Wittdun, here
Wood, Walter, here
Woolwich, here
wreckers, here, here
Wyk, here, here
Xenophon, here
Yarmouth, here, here, here
shelling of, here
Yser Canal, here
Zanzibar, here, here, here
zebra mussels, here
Zeebrugge, see Herald of Free Enterprise
Zeebrugge raid, here
Zeeland, here, here
Zlin, here
A Note on the Author
Tom Blass studied anthropology, law and politics, and has earned his living as a journalist and editor specialising in issues relating to business, law, human rights and foreign policy. He lives with his family in Hastings.
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