A chance to pick up "[a]n essential and delightful read" (Katharine Norbury 'BBC Countryfile') for a steal here 👇

1777/22

Number eleven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYx...

Weather is not very nice, but it never is, is it?

Rainy June Music

Xavier de Maistre's “travel journal”, A Journey Round my Room, takes place entirely in his room where he spent 42 days under house arrest: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-journey-round-my-room-1794-1871

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

The new Uniformpamphlets series and Biblioteka Art Book Fair at The Warburg Institute next Friday and Saturday. campaign.emailblaster.cloud/MTQ0ODc/26.html

What a job title www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-pe...

For anyone who thinks I spend all day beating off publishers and film companies who are competing to option my books I also have a damn fine radio archive which I am in the process of uploading for free access. There are historical riches here. Have a delve. archive.org/details/@rob...

News from Uniformbooks, May 2026 campaign.emailblaster.cloud/MTQ0ODc/26.h...

"...made of words and phrases appearing sequentially in place entries from Nikolaus Pevsner’s 'Buckinghamshire', published in 1960. A few years later, all of these places would fall within the orbit of the new planned city of Milton Keynes." uniformbooks.co.uk/uniformpamphlets.php

Friends, I turn to you in desperation. My son is getting married next Saturday June 6th in Newbury and their photographer has just cancelled. They're not keen on the replacement's style, ideally they're looking for 'rawness and magazine cover' style pics. PLZ IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP?

A bit of the old Ludvig van

Good morning from Ghent.

BOTD: 1926. Miles Davis - It Never Entered My Mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Np8...

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

This absolutely, and You’re moving out today by Carole Bayer Sager.

It is, finally, the right season for this Larkin poem.

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

The erasure of social from postwar housing

Which? Magazine, UK March 1972

If you want to follow the new revived Rural Modernism, we're at www.instagram.com/rural_modern...

This isn't niche at all, sadly, it is typical of university management ignorance and recklessness that 'knows' the price of everything and the value of nothing.

16/5/26 - nocturn

Only 4 really, and they’re all on the same record (and they’re not all by him as such). 1. Ballad of the Band 2. I Didn't Mean to Hurt You 3. Candles in a Church 4. Ferdinand Magellan

Always stop and look at this half forgotten allotment plot. Brings me peace. Places of low trees always remind me of the mushroom hunting opening of Spirit of the Beehive. Two apples trees, last year’s windfalls mulching in the wheelbarrow, the wheelbarrow being lost in the tall untended grass.

and fifth is John Cage

Not 'X' for Henry Flynt, but bluesky.

Andrew Wilson is posting page-by-page, and almost daily "the content of one of the great books of the early 1960s, La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow and George Maciunas: 'An Anthology of Chance Operations'."

... While you sleep there's a whole world comin alive

Wow.

Sociable tandems apart, I dream of seeing a fully restored version of The Magnificent Ambersons.

Off early to Scotland for Rural Modernism 2: Atomic Boogaloo. A day of planning and discussion awaits.

Final (bin) Day.

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Frank O'Hara

This is an otherwise very legible Leicestershire probate inventory for a yeoman farmer in the 1730s. But Wagons and what? faelts? What are they? any ideas anyone? It's probably not much help, but they are worth £12 within an inventory total of £429 @vch-home.bsky.social @materialwills.bsky.social

I love my shoes and wear them a lot.

Still available! The Radburn Idea 1: A story of pedestrianisation on the postwar English housing estate. £10 incl postage for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Art schools, fee-free.

Noosha Fox did ♥️

Share a song from the year you turned 18. Disco Best! 1978. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKJV...

Church going. The road to Gautby, Lincolnshire.