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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere in Bucks?

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for Robert Thorne's online lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt.

The polymath Wyatt was an architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur.

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Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialised in what we today call surveying. There will be details on how his intricate 100-page notebook was found which gives instructions and data on surveying, carpentry, husbandry, building costs and more.

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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 1d

It's a book on High-Tech Architecture. Made out of wood pulp. Not even holograms or shiny inks. I mean.

Waterstones 25% off RRP on upcoming books, such as High-Tech Britain. Prr-order now with code OCTOBER25

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 1d

EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more!

Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

See full calendar below 👇🏼

Image © Howard Kingsnorth - Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (1964)

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 2d

‪ANN SAUNDERS ESSAY PRIZE FOR 2026

A prize of £1,000 is offered annually for an original and unpublished 8000-word research essay on the topography, development or buildings of London in any period.

Submissions by 1 April 2026.

Details can be found at: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘Photographic negatives are fragile, prone to scratching, fading and decay, and many of Peter’s are well over sixty years old.’

Ben Campbell on his father’s photographs of London in the early sixties: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots

The snapshots in my father’s book were taken during his first three years in London, after he emigrated from New...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 5d

Romanesque pillar piscina at Swannington church, Norfolk, decorated with a lively image of St George and the Dragon. Church open daily

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 6d

Sixteen refugees attended a collaborative mapping workshop in Berlin. Their goal: reconstitute the city of Homs, Syria, through overlapping memories of a place they once called home.

As music by Lebanese singer Fairuz played in the background, memories poured forth of a city leveled by war. (1/5)

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 7d

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 7d

#HillfortsWednesday
Between 1795-1816 the hillforts of #Dorset were part of a chain of visual shutter relay telegraph stations for the Admiralty connecting Plymouth to London. The chain included the high Hillforts of Lewesdon, Bulbarrow and Hambledon and at the racetrack by Badbury Rings
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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 7d

Looks interesting @irishrainforest.bsky.social

From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 10d

Lovely photos Allan. It was a privilege to work with you however briefly!

Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 10d

It's the 43rd anniversary of when I joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, the start of a career drawing old stuff. Almost 35 years later I 'retired' in 2016 but still drawing old stuff, 'illustrating the evidence for past ways of life'.

#ArchitecturalIllustration

Composite image of the author drawing with a dip pen & ink, an earthwork illustrated with hachures, an historic shading technique, the author giving a talk to colleagues & a colour cutaway drawing of a medieval house.

An illustrator at work with a dip pen and bottle of ink drawing a plan of an archaeological monument. On the desk are a table lamp and roll of drawing film. In the background another illustrator can be seen at work at a sloping drawing board.

Cutaway drawing of a Royal Observer Corps underground nuclear war monitoring post.

Cutaway drawing of a railway goods station building showing train wagons being unloaded and then despatched by horse drawn carts.

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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 10d

A lovely tribute from @grindrod.bsky.social who writes about Terry Farrell's interest in opening up working class taste cultures and in the objective of incompleteness.

John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 12d

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

Sharing common interests

Farewell to Terry Farrell and Jonathan Main, and introducing three fascinating new books

johngrindrod.substack.com

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 11d

Six years ago I wrote about John Kinsley ‘s house in Portobello Edinburgh and was thrilled to visit it on this trip. It is a remarkable project, mass timber, multifamily, flexible, baugruppen, knitted into the existing fabric, and a model for other architects.

Six years ago, I called this the future of housing. It still is.

Here's what happens when a talented architect builds a home for four families, no developer needed.

open.substack.com

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 11d

Riding the Urban Monorail in Chiba, Japan … the longest suspended monorail system in the world.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 11d

St.stephen's college hong kong r/brutalism

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 11d

Harold Gilman, Leeds Market, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113365

Presented by the Very Rev. E. Milner-White 1927

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · 14d

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 14d

To celebate the launch of 'Up in the Air: A History of High-Rise Britain', join author Holly Smith and C20 in conversation with architectural historian Neal Shasore on the future of public housing.

🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025, 6.30pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Image © Keystone Press
Photo shows Mrs. Ingeboug Paine with her daughter 7 year old Diane, standing on their 19th story balcony overlooking the collapsed block of flats Ronan Point, taking a last look before leaving for their new home in another block of flats in Canning Town [Jan 20 1969].

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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 14d

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

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