I like how the map distinguishes between 'travelator' and 'proposed travelator' like the Oxford Road – St Peter's Square travelator was already in place for people who really needed to get to the Central Library in a hurry.

A nice bit of presumably 1970's design. The book is Colin Ward and Anthony Fyson's Streetwork: The Exploding School written in capacity as the education officers for The Town & Country Planning Association. All very much of the era.

Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky

Kids these days. Mine just made me sit through a Xmas present wishlist power point presentation.

"We always picked our quarrels deliberately; only their consequences were inadvertent."
Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums (trans. Michael Hoffman).

Go read this.

I've seen him talk and read his book (Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day).

Incredible stuff on learning disabled folk in history that's a vital perspective on thier place in today's world.