🍁Don't miss the first lecture in our autumn online lecture series tomorrow 21 Oct at 19.00hrs 🔔 Our series celebrates the flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are authors of new books. Buy 7 Talks for price of 6: bit.ly/4pOE2jD

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4/ Using evidence gathered from old postcards, maps and the accounts of shepherds and botanists, I want to rebuild a picture of the chalk downland that existed until the 1940s - and in doing so, help efforts to restore it. Please get involved here: ghostsofchalkcountry.org/2025/09/14/h...

Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇

Wild reporting.

Mum discourse

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media

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What a fab selection!

I think this 25% off promotion ends tomorrow, so pre-order your copy now!

That's because the U.S. government, military, and corporations have been doing all this same shit to people around the world for over 100 years. Fascism is colonialism turned inward. This is often called the "imperial boomerang."

There seems to be a big deal about 'eco-bricks' made from stone in the UK..., meanwhile in Italy, almost every building supplies outlet sells these.

Book Cover of the Day:

Join us for Robert Thorne's online lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt. The polymath Wyatt was an architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur.

Ed Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialised in what we today call surveying. There will be details on how his intricate 100-page notebook was found which gives instructions and data on surveying, carpentry, husbandry, building costs and more.

It's a book on High-Tech Architecture. Made out of wood pulp. Not even holograms or shiny inks. I mean.

EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more! Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... See full calendar below 👇🏼

‪ANN SAUNDERS ESSAY PRIZE FOR 2026 A prize of £1,000 is offered annually for an original and unpublished 8000-word research essay on the topography, development or buildings of London in any period. Submissions by 1 April 2026. Details can be found at: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...

‘Photographic negatives are fragile, prone to scratching, fading and decay, and many of Peter’s are well over sixty years old.’ Ben Campbell on his father’s photographs of London in the early sixties: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

Romanesque pillar piscina at Swannington church, Norfolk, decorated with a lively image of St George and the Dragon. Church open daily

Sixteen refugees attended a collaborative mapping workshop in Berlin. Their goal: reconstitute the city of Homs, Syria, through overlapping memories of a place they once called home. As music by Lebanese singer Fairuz played in the background, memories poured forth of a city leveled by war. (1/5)

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife. 🧵 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#HillfortsWednesday Between 1795-1816 the hillforts of #Dorset were part of a chain of visual shutter relay telegraph stations for the Admiralty connecting Plymouth to London. The chain included the high Hillforts of Lewesdon, Bulbarrow and Hambledon and at the racetrack by Badbury Rings 1/14

Looks interesting @irishrainforest.bsky.social

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Lovely photos Allan. It was a privilege to work with you however briefly!

A lovely tribute from @grindrod.bsky.social who writes about Terry Farrell's interest in opening up working class taste cultures and in the objective of incompleteness.

Six years ago I wrote about John Kinsley ‘s house in Portobello Edinburgh and was thrilled to visit it on this trip. It is a remarkable project, mass timber, multifamily, flexible, baugruppen, knitted into the existing fabric, and a model for other architects.

Riding the Urban Monorail in Chiba, Japan … the longest suspended monorail system in the world.

St.stephen's college hong kong r/brutalism

Harold Gilman, Leeds Market, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113365

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

To celebate the launch of 'Up in the Air: A History of High-Rise Britain', join author Holly Smith and C20 in conversation with architectural historian Neal Shasore on the future of public housing. 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025, 6.30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)! This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️

@slye.bsky.social and I are bringing back our type selection workshop to @letterformarchive.org, Oct 25–26: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

Manchester historians! @historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below! www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

'The Automobile,' (1900) by Ramón Casas in which a solitary woman drives a motor car directly at the viewer is a remarkable declaration of modernity. Casas was highly influential on a generation of his contemporaries, including Joaquin Mir, Isidre Nonell, and Pablo Picasso.

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

still looking!

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going… go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

My goodness. An era is closing up.

Apartment house Kamenická 35 in Prague, 1924. Designed by Otakar Novotný in 'rondocubism' – an attempt to give the newly established Czechoslovak state a national architecture style.

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel, 1563 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

I’ve always wondered about this collection of pre-fabs next to the car-hire terminal at Pisa airport. And now I know what they are 👉🏻 www.wallpaper.com/architecture...