An attempt to remap Europe and claim back the lost territories of the North Sea
Polder atlas
While in England, I spent a weekend at my sister’s place in Peckham. On the Saturday, I took the chance to travel with the 63 to Kings Cross and have a look in the maps section of the British Library. Among a number of maps showing designs for the Fens – which is what I’d […]
A hypothetical landscape
In the Prehistoric Society’s 1998 annual journal, the archaeologist Bryony Coles contributed a survey of the land that had once existed under the southern North Sea.* She named this place “Doggerland” (after the Dogger sandbank) and pointed to evidence of a distinct landscape and a unique people who had left behind tools different from those […]