Important new update on RIBA collections move on @thesahgb.bsky.social website. www.sahgb.org.uk/features/the...

Some good #20s30s stuff on radio 4 at the mo.

In town yesterday for the launch of @ejngee.bsky.social excellent new book. Beautifully researched & with great illustrations. An important contribution to our understanding of how working women occupied the late Victorian and Edwardian city.

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Enjoying the 90th birthday celebrations at Embassy Court today.

Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I just signed the open letter & joined the campaign. Access to the written archives was vital to the book I’m completing about BBC Broadcasting House.

The Vanessa Bell show at Charleston in Lewes is worth a visit. The pre-1914 work is for me most interesting & convincing. Would like to know what her income was in these early years - how much came from private income (she can’t have sold enough work to live on those sales).

RIP Terence Stamp. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Hoping what I wrote on Wednesday makes sense …

With less than two weeks to go, now is the time to nominate work for SAHGB - IHBC Heritage Research Award. The award celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced by colleagues in heritage and conservation practice. Deadline: 18 August 2025

Hurrah for housing activist Elizabeth Denby on #YorkshireDay - Born 1894 in Bradford to a doctor father and mother who was a former nurse. Educated at Bradford Girls Grammar before heading to LSE & then a career in housing.

Nominations Now Open: Hawksmoor Essay Medal We welcome submissions that demonstrate critical and innovative approaches to architectural history. The competition is open to current postgraduate students, and to early career researchers. sahgb.org.uk/hawksmoor-essay-medal

Super Paule Vézelay show at Towner Gallery. Recommend.

The shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history – the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize – have been revealed for 2025.  sahgb.org.uk/features/2025-shortlists

The SAHGB is pleased to announce that we are now an Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) accredited CPD provider. IHBC members now have the opportunity to attend our paid events at a preferential rate. @ihbc.bsky.social sahgb.org.uk/whats-on

The Bloomsbury Global Encylopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 is now online! A huge achievement by Karen Burns & Lori Brown. Pleased to have had the chance to write some of the entries. preview31.sspbloomsbury.co.uk/bloomsbury-g...

Super pleased to be here in Leith to hear about the #VoicesofExperience Project.

Just published in the ODNB my entry on Jane Priestman.

Chuffed to see myself quoted by Suzanne Ewing in her excellent paper on the brilliant Voices of Experience project @thesahgb.bsky.social annual conference this afternoon.

Excellent start to @thesahgb.bsky.social ‘Future Heritage’ conference — sustainability & heritage first, then diversity & heritage. An excellent series of papers and more tomorrow.

Mella Shaw’s installation at McManus Gallery Dundee is well worth your time.

Looking forward to speaking at what promises to be a fascinating symposium today.

Ticket sales for the upcoming SAHGB 'Future Heritage' Conference close this Friday. The finalised schedule, including short abstracts from all speakers, is available online. sahgb.org.uk/whatson/future-heritage Book Now!

Excellent exhibition about James VI/I at the Portrait in Edinburgh. Some lovely things on display.

Delighted to see such a positive review of Jessica Kelly’s & Neal Shasore’s edited volume Reconstruction to which I had the honour to write the Foreword.

Shortly heading off to give a talk at the City Art Centre about Free Kindergartens, nature and play - part of a series to accompany the very good exhibition “Nurture through Nature” at Museum of Edinburgh.

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This made for fascinating (and very moving) viewing. An extraordinary woman.

This is worrying!

Amazing Anthony McCall installations at Tate Modern today.

NEWS: We're very pleased to announce that the modernist Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue (1966-67), a dedicated Holocaust Memorial believed to be Internationally unique, has been saved from demolition with a Grade II listing designation. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

Spotted this morning, Seven Dials, Brighton @c20society.bsky.social

A reminder that @thesahgb.bsky.social prestigious Alice Davis Hitchcock and Colvin prizes are now open for nominations: www.sahgb.org.uk/awards

Brava Jean Marsh, a life well-lived. The magnificent Upstairs Downstairs contributed to what I now see was an important telling of women's stories (also Secret Army, Duchess of Duke Street) in the 70s (& 80s repeats), shaping a way of seeing in historians to be: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

SAHGB annual conference alert. Booking now open.

My first book is now out! Walter Gropius in Britain: Emigration and Collaborations. The few years Gropius spent in Britain (1934-37) are explored through designs, translations, marketing strategies, and the broader discourse of Modernism - www.routledge.com/9781032586878

This was an excellent film - recommmend! Thought it was just going to be about WW2 artists but lots on current artist women in Ukraine, Sudan as well as Uk and US based. Really good!

We are #recruiting to fill the #vacancy of Education and EDI Lead for the SAHGB. Please share with anyone you think may be interested. To find out more, please visit: www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs/sahgb-v... #volunteer #education #architecturalhistory #sahgb

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As a member of @societyofauthors.bsky.social I'm joining today's online protest to draw attention to the unlicensed use of work that has taken decades of effort to produce. libgen lists 27 items (possibly some by the gynaecologist medical researcher who shares my name -- AI sweeps all in its wake).

to Crawley Museum to see the exhib of photo’s by Wolf Schusitzky of the New Town. Wonderful images & some great ephmera in the museum’s own display on the Town: an excuse to flag up my & @alistairfair.bsky.social article which relates to the theme: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Bug building in Fitzrovia

It’s the @thesahgb.bsky.social annual lecture this evening - this year a panel of speakers discuss the shape of buildings to come.

On IWD 2025, posting snaps of two of my favourite women in architecture, both housing activists and campaigners. Justin Blanco White (1911-2001) and Elizabeth Denby (1894-1965)

SAHGB is on Bluesky now (& instagram).

On World Book Day & during Women’s History Month can it be 18 years since my & Lesley Whitworth’s germinal WATMOBS was published?! Still has lots of relevant & important conceptualisations re how we talk about gender & the built environment.

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