So much to love here (and buy!), including my 'modest, gentle, elegiac' micro-remembering of a 1960s council estate, Middlefield: A postwar council estate in time.

1776: The redbreast's note is very sweet, & pleasing; did it not carry with it ugly associations of ideas, & put us in mind of the approach of winter.

‘Vibing up the senile man.’

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kurt Schwitters Untitled 1937 Prob. made in Norway where in Jan 1937 Kurt followed his son Ernst into exile, the Nazis having begun confiscating his work from German museums. '1920' on the mount was a misattribution by the gallerist to whom Ernst sold several of Schwitters' pictures in the 1950s

Margaret Thatcher at 100 "If You Seek My Monument, Look Around Grantham"

Well, not sure, but it's possible that the sun's up....

FREIGHT AND A CITY (1966)

Lytes Cary, Somerset.

Posted this a few days ago but apparently it’s #PostboxSaturday so here’s this gem designed by Alison and Peter Smithson for their 1962 home in Wiltshire.

Immodest I know, but a beautiful piece of work from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

LOL better.

Near Tisbury, Wiltshire.

1776: Nuts fall very fast from the hedges.

Can anyone tell me what this big bright green pleasure machine will turn into? Thanks!

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Old Sarum.

When you are rock n roll royalty you can write directly onto the restaurant's menu.

Read the whole thread - stunning photos and a walk with a disturbing piece of recent history which has resulted in place-making and memorial.

5/10/25 - nocturn

Harold Edgerton, Cows and Flare at Stonehenge, 1944

rotatory, 1993 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position. colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p35.pdf colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p36.pdf colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p37.pdf

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

The scouring of the horse

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things ‘Blankets’ Artist: Gerald Witcomb (Sounds and Pictures, 1976)

Losing True ❤️

By Peter Schmidt (1931-1980).

'October' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1951. Cooking apples take centre stage, flanked by grapes, fungi and the first celery and Brussels sprouts. There's a button chrysanthemum, fluffy Old Man's Beard, a shiny conker and a reddening leaf of Virginia Creeper.

"I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that's their problem." 🎬 Great English filmmaker #MichaelPowell, who had a celebrated creative partnership with #EmericPressburger, was #BOTD 30 September 1905. #Film #Filmmaking

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

DIESEL TRAIN RIDE (1959)

Good Morning!

Singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry was born on this day 1945 in Washington, County Durham. Bryan Ferry in the Crown, Newcastle, 1975, photo by Brian Aris.

Small flags.

Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂

If you see this, post a bridge.

& fine turneps about the country.

Woo hoo! I'm also going to be revealing some of the research I've been doing this year on the 1980s, unpublished work in progress, to get feedback from you contemporary historians out there.

Art of the day Ingre Morath, late 1950s Masks by Saul Steinberg

National Flag of Anywhere and Everywhere National Flag of Everywhere and Anywhere Gloss laminated postcard; Colin Sackett, 2025.

Bryan Ferry.

Grim listening but great interview with the brilliant @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social about conspiracy theories and contemporary politics

We are all enjoying ourselves & don't want it to end.

1776: Wasps still go into the hives. Gathered-in some of the early pippins: fine baking apples.

22/9/25 - nocturn

Late September sunset soundtrack m.youtube.com/watch?v=D_-_...