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Dr Rosamund Lily West

@rosamundlilywest.bsky.social

Lecturer | Historian | Curator Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)

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Now live! I was interviewed by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social for @opencity-uk.bsky.social Deconstructed podcast discussing the Keeper's Lodge at Plumstead Common, built by the LCC in 1894.

09.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art school table tops @wimbledonual.bsky.social

07.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First day teaching @wimbledonual.bsky.social This year, I'm also teaching @chelseaual.bsky.social as usual as well as at West Dean. I am now also expanding my freelance work so watch this space.

07.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's such a handsome building and also huge, dominating the whole side of General Gordon Square.

06.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pretty good venue for my COVID/flu jab. Equitable House, Lionel U. Grace and W. G. Farmer (1935). Built as the headquarters of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society, it now houses a health centre. If interested in Woolwich's rich history, I do a tour of Woolwich for @opencity-uk.bsky.social

06.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sunday reading, Vogue and @museumsassociation.org Museums Journal.

05.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Recent excitement at seeing the LCC crest in County Hall again when visiting with family. Boyfriend (filming) and family used to LCC crest spotting. As I note in the video, the lion is quite small.

04.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Used some Nick Hedges photographs in a teaching session today and just realised he recently died. Famous for his images of urban living conditions in cities such as Manchester for @sheltercharity.bsky.social those images remain emotive, urgent and, unfortunately, speak to today's housing crisis.

03.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I would love to. I'll send you a DM.

02.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes

Catch me in the @theguardian.com today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

01.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Canary Wharf and East India Docks Walking Tour — Open City Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf and East India Docks

My next @opencity tour of Canary Wharf and East India is Saturday 18th October. Booking and details here: open-city.org.uk/events/c-wha...

01.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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As well as leopards, I met a lion and a unicorn today at Goldsmiths Fair. Goldsmiths Hall has beautiful interiors that tell the history and present of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths but I failed to get any interior shots beyond these creatures.

01.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Incredible afternoon at the Goldsmiths Fair, Goldsmiths Hall today.

01.10.2025 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Found myself spotting leopards in the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths' garden, Gresham Street.

01.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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