Odeon cinema, Cherrydown Avenue, Chingford Mount 1935 (now demolished) Andrew Mather bit.ly/4lPv4iN

Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?

The Caroline modernisation programme is troubling. The Firm could alienate its natural supporters while failing to mollify its critics | Niall Gooch unherd.com/newsroom/scr...

New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).

New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).

Doctor Who has always been political, but it's only in recent years that the BBC show's moral lectures have become suffocating | Niall Gooch

High and Over, Amersham 1929-31 Amyas Connell bit.ly/3GGtQI5

Don’t forget about our spring sale! For the week there will be 20% off our Mini Guide range. Our A5 sized Mini Guides each explore the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. See the full range here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/mini-guides....

"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...

"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...

I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.

I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.

Part 2 of this series, The Case Of The Implausibly Slow Inspector. niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-case-o... On a pleasant but unremarkable mystery, The Sussex Downs Murder.

“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” St. Seraphim of Sarov

And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity ... www.bbc.com/news/article...

"It is this glimpse of the pattern of shipboard life - the small community of men working together skilfully to achieve a mission - that holds part of the key to the film’s enduring popularity."

New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".

New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".

"Don't forget your old shipmates". An appreciation of Master And Commander from a couple of years back. niallgooch.substack.com/p/dont-forge...

The King's respect and love for the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition is a joy to behold. It should be a cause of great pride for those of us who are British.

Couple of pieces I think about a lot. One from the New York Times in 2018. In Praise of Mediocrity. www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o...

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Whimsical household inventions £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18 ‘Christmas Time’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

"A Disappearance". One of my ghost stories. niallgooch.substack.com/p/a-disappea...

A Misty Frosty Morning. 1°C and no breeze. Wrens in bushes.

A moment of calm on Blakeney quay this morning

The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness. Good column:

My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

"The intention is clearly to make people...assume that without assisted suicide, we are all at high risk of an unpleasant death, pointlessly prolonged by dogmatic vitalist medical professionals. But this is not the case." My piece at @unherd on Dignity In Dying's posters. unherd.com/newsroom/ass...

Going to gradually link to all my Substack posts. "Paying the penalty for the folly of kings" - a reflection on Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy and HFM Prescott's The Man On A Donkey, both of which deal with the English Reformation. niallgooch.substack.com/p/what-mante...

"The intention is clearly to make people...assume that without assisted suicide, we are all at high risk of an unpleasant death, pointlessly prolonged by dogmatic vitalist medical professionals. But this is not the case." My piece at @unherd on Dignity In Dying's posters. unherd.com/newsroom/ass...

Art Deco came to prominence in Britain in the 1930s, with its colour, curves and decoration adorning cinemas, factories, houses and other buildings throughout the suburbs. Join the Jazz Age with our new guidebook, Modernism Beyond Metro-Land, here https://buff.ly/3Ojwq6H

With Thanksgiving close, a fine example of the Protestant Episcopalian ethos in the United States: Christ Church Philadelphia, founded in 1695, constructed between 1727 and 1744 in the style of London's Wren churches. The Communion Table dates from 1788.

Lots of love for the Grimshaw scene I posted yesterday, so here’s another. I love the way he captures the moonlight in this one. November ~ John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878) #inspiringart #oilpainting #Artwork #19thcenturyart

Cross-post from the other place, bcs I find it very poignant. Extract from Wade Davis' Into The Silence, about the hundreds of applications received to join the British attempts on Everest in the early 1920s. Whatever happened to F. Vankinsburgh (an unsuccessful applicant) & his dreams of adventure?

Going to start off by linking to my Substack here, where it won't (presumably) be throttled to death. niallgooch.substack.com It's exactly what it sounds like, an occasionally updated grab bag of reflections on things I like.