Gillian Darley
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Writer, reader, perambulator, observer. www.gilliandarley.com
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Armando Iannucci
3 days ago
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ācomplete and utter bollocksā, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-5-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
8 days ago
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Just learned that the firm responsible for the new Cairo museum also designed the Giantās Causeway museum in N Ireland - Heneghan Peng. Strange but true!
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āA model of social responsibilityā: almshouses in the modern age - Apollo Magazine. Said it then, and now duly recognised and awarded.
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So good to hear that WWMās Appleby Blue won the big prize! I wrote about it (and Lord Leicesterās hospital, Warwick) in Apollo, February 2024. Fantastic clients too.
28 days ago
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Well deserved plaudit for BBC director Peter Symes in Last Word on Tony Harrison. A real partnership, pioneering horse and carriage for poetry on television.
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Repurposing to follow? Treviso.
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Glorious Titian panel at the Scoletto (little Scuola) at San Antonio Padua. Look carefully. It is sublime.
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Perfect place to eat a Monday evening meal. Trattoria al Bersaglieri, Padua. OTTIMO.
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And here it is. Considered Giovanni Belliniās masterpiece
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This is how the Fondazione Querini Stampali has chosen to welcome home its exquisite Giovanni Bellini. Outrageous and inexplicable.
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And in Leiston, the inspired Long House Museum, where Richard Garrett delved for many decades. Other Garretts (at Snape) include Elizabeth and Millicent. What a family.
about 2 months ago
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Excellent day in Leiston for
#bookfestival
. Matters rural and natural aptly discussed as Sizewell C and massive grid works lacerate the Suffolk coast. So many good topics and books featured. Check it at
www.leistonbookfestival.org.uk
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about 2 months ago
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Urban renewal. Currently the dirtiest of all words.
about 2 months ago
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Green grew the pavements, oh! For older pedestrians, a zone of continuous peril. Thanks a bunch. One very near death experience in these days, enough.,
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Eden Dock, Canary Wharf. Transformative landscape. Seen in perfect conditions, with thanks to the London Society. Join, why donāt you?
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Among my heirlooms, a Beatles ticket from June 1965 (in Rome) and a receipt for a paltry sum, for who knows what, from that noted fraud Inigo Philbrick. Heās on your TV at the moment.
3 months ago
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Freesias, white of course. Inky dark gladioli. One step at a time. Calm after a day battling endnotes. Autotherapy.
3 months ago
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HATING the inchoate hatred. Hurricanes come over the Atlantic - so does the ordure.
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August 25, 2025
This morning, President Donald J.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-25-2025?r=izzu4
3 months ago
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Obituary of Andrew Saint in Times. Sparkling and spot on. Anyone prepared to leak the identity of the author?
3 months ago
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As September approaches, I realise itās fifty years since my Villages of Vision was published by the Architectural Press. Bit dumbfounding.
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Ā£9 and 90 minutes. IKEA Strandad lamp. The RELIEF!
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Neat wordplay on broadcast ⦠as in sowing
3 months ago
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Social realism ā¦
#BBC
style. Anyone know the artist?
3 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Apollo
4 months ago
āLondon was in his veinsā: Gillian Darley (
@gmdarksky.bsky.social
) pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.
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āLondon was in his veinsā: Andrew Saint (1946ā2025)
Gillian Darley remembers an architectural historian of great wit and erudition who was always keen to share his enthusiasms, which included a deep love of the capital
https://buff.ly/ZJYmZrT
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My friend and university contemporary, the wonderful Efi Strousa, is being celebrated at the National Gallery in Athens. She made things happen.
4 months ago
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Thatās
#Apollomagazine
btw
4 months ago
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Excellent Fatema Ahmed celebration of the late Tom Lehrer in
#Apollo
4 months ago
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That was then ā¦. Liverpool Street station now?
4 months ago
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That was then ā¦. Liverpool Street station now?
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Donāt let the Bayeux tapestry excitement detract from this wonderful one in Fishguard.
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Gillian Darley | In Fishguard
Suspicions of invasion come in many guises, but the first sighting of four French vessels off Lundy Island, clearly...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/february/in-fishguard
4 months ago
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Such a warm feeling to find several delegates in
#Dublin
#TCD
#Stonework
event whoād read my Soane biography (very long out of print Yale UP!)) and saw the point of it! It can be demoralising when work ādisappearsā as in pre-digital editions.
5 months ago
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Massacre of the English language #10097
5 months ago
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LARGE HAILS? Surely hailSTORMS or HAILSTONES. A pedant writes.
5 months ago
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Bravo - that man in a red anorak
5 months ago
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One of the best. Lovingly caught by @sabasalman.
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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The front, Temple Mill. Signs of progress at last?
#britishlibrary
6 months ago
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Very happy to see this. Rooflights of Marshallās Temple Mill, Holbeck.
#BritishLibrary
#Disraeli
#Soane
can it be about to turn the corner to reuse?
6 months ago
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Fifty years ago my
#villagesofvision
was published. And look what 50 years has done to it (and me)
6 months ago
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Happy lion
#Saltaire
6 months ago
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What no corgi memorials??
6 months ago
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NPR
6 months ago
Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the public of the 267th pope.
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The Vatican installs chimney to signal the selection of the next pope
Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the public of the 267th pope.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/03/nx-s1-5385869/vatican-chimney-new-pope
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The Camera Man
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Gillian Darley | The Camera Man
The richness of Pevsnerās Leaves of SouthwellĀ lies above all in the photographs, printed in the best photogravure...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/september/the-camera-man
6 months ago
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High noon Clerkenwell Road, May 1st.
7 months ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Larry the Cat
7 months ago
If you know, you know
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Sarah
#Churchwell
on top form in
#FTWeekend
. How the
#Gatsby
characters met
#trump
and
#Thiel
and bros.
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