Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...

Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...

Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...

Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...

The Empire that Refused to Die open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.

A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thanks so much to The Authors' Club and @schulercj.bsky.social for inviting @househistorian.bsky.social and I along to The National Liberal Club last week to chat about 'Doors of London'!

Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! Follow @cathlondon.bsky.social, @househistorian.bsky.social and their editor @schulercj.bsky.social as they lead a virtual tour of hidden architectural gems. #authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture bit.ly/DoorTalk

49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Looking forward to 50,000 soon.

Just received my PLR statement for 2023-4. Not a vast sum of money, but pleasing to know that Along the Amber Route was borrowed from public libraries 190 times that year. www.amazon.co.uk/Along-Amber-...

My latest Substack, on a classic of Victorian nature writing: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

See more of London's elegance in 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. 🚪🖤✨ bit.ly/DoorsofLondon #doorsoflondon #londonarchitecture #aestheticlondon

For a first time author like Cath Harries, nothing compares to the feeling of seeing your name up in lights for the first time. Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon

📚 BOOKSPOTTING 📚 Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'

Simon Armitage reinvents a folk tale: cjschuler.substack.com

Excuse the rant, but this kind of environmental vandalism makes my blood boil.

New post on Substack: John Sweeney, Russia and Ukraine: cjschuler.substack.com/p/murder-in-...

We are delighted to announce that our widely anticipated new release, 'Doors of London,' is now available to purchase. 'Doors of London' explores the hidden stories and untold secrets behind London's doors, from the grandeur of Belgravia to the street art of Tower Hamlets. 🚪📚 bit.ly/DoorsofLondon

Can I highly recommend this new book by wonderful @cathlondon.bsky.social and Melanie Backe-Hansen. It’s a book of photographs of doors in London, and it’s utterly beautiful and mesmerising. If you know a lover of all things London, this would make a perfect gift.

Lèse-majesté on Southeastern Rail?

It’s launch day! Doors of London by Cath Harries cathlondon.bsky.social and Melanie Backe-Hansen househistorian.bsky.social is published today by Sheldrake Press: sheldrakepress.co.uk/news/launch-...

Fungi in Sydenham Hill Wood this afternoon – and the footbridge is open at last.

My latest (free) Substack post tells the story of the creation of 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries @CathLondon & Melanie Backe-Hansen @HouseHistorian, pub @SheldrakePress on 21 November

For anyone who enjoys nature writing, here's the starter pack: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D & the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... Please share with other interested folk. Thanks! #writingcommunity #nature #naturalhistory #birdingUK

Great to hear Cath Harries @CMHarries and Melanie Back-Hansen @HouseHistorian discuss their brilliant new book #DoorsofLondon, pub @SheldrakePress on 21 Nov, on Robert Elms's Radio London show (at 1:10) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Some thoughts on Italo Calvino and (for paid subscribers) Jenny Erpenbeck. chrisschuler.substack.com

Some thoughts on Italo Calvino and Jenny Erpenbeck: chrisschuler.substack.com/p/8e80e454-d...

Fungi in @SydenhamWoodLWT and Dulwich Wood yesterday

Welcome to Notes in the Margin, a bi-monthly series of reflections on reading, writing, books old and new, people and places, nature and the built environment, with the occasional post on history, archaeology, maps, Roman coins and anything else that takes my fancy.

On 10 October, I will launch Notes in the Margin on Substack – reflections on reading, writing, people and places. Free subscribers receive two articles a month, quotes and anagrams; paid subscribers an additional long-form essay each month. You can subscribe here: chrisschuler.substack.com/about

In my last scheduled talk of the year, I'll be discussing my book The Wood That Built London at the Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Local History Society this Wednesday, 25 Sept, at 7.30, in the Norwegian Church by the entrance to the Rotherhithe Tunnel: www.rbhistory.org.uk/event-detail...

Welcome and thanks to my doughty handful of friends on this new (to me) platform. Here's hoping we'll soon be joined by many more exiles from the other place owned by that guy with a name like a bad Seventies aftershave.