Real history, retold here.

Yorewire: real history, retold here

Oil-painting-style illustration of a coastal Mesolithic camp at sunset: bark-covered A-frame huts among pines, fish drying on a rack beside a small fire, and three people and a dog looking out over a rocky shore to a boat on the sea.
Credit: Yorewire illustration, AI-generated, not a historical image

The Storegga Tsunami and Britain's Lost Land

A seabed area the size of Scotland slid away off Norway about 8,150 years ago. The tsunami left its mark from Greenland to Denmark and across the North Sea to Doggerland, and geologists still ask whether it could happen again.

By The Yorewire editor · 6 min read

Medieval

500–1500

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1500–1800

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1800 onwards

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