Elizabeth Darling

With less than two weeks to go, now is the time to nominate work for SAHGB - IHBC Heritage Research Award.

The award celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced by colleagues in heritage and conservation practice.

Deadline: 18 August 2025

Hurrah for housing activist Elizabeth Denby on #YorkshireDay - Born 1894 in Bradford to a doctor father and mother who was a former nurse. Educated at Bradford Girls Grammar before heading to LSE & then a career in housing.

Hawksmoor Essay Medal - SAHGB To encourage new and unpublished entrants to the field of architectural history, the Society's Essay Medal (popularly known as 'the Hawksmoor') is awarded annually to the author of the best essay subm...

Nominations Now Open: Hawksmoor Essay Medal

We welcome submissions that demonstrate critical and innovative approaches to architectural history.

The competition is open to current postgraduate students, and to early career researchers.

sahgb.org.uk/hawksmoor-essay-medal

Super Paule Vézelay show at Towner Gallery. Recommend.

Shortlists revealed for the 2025 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize — SAHGB The shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history – the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize – have been revealed.

The shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history – the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize – have been revealed for 2025. 

sahgb.org.uk/features/2025-shortlists

The SAHGB is pleased to announce that we are now an Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) accredited CPD provider. IHBC members now have the opportunity to attend our paid events at a preferential rate.

@ihbc.bsky.social

sahgb.org.uk/whats-on

The Bloomsbury Global Encylopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 is now online! A huge achievement by Karen Burns & Lori Brown. Pleased to have had the chance to write some of the entries. preview31.sspbloomsbury.co.uk/bloomsbury-g...

Super pleased to be here in Leith to hear about the #VoicesofExperience
Project.

Just published in the ODNB my entry on Jane Priestman.

Also shout out to the red flock wallpaper and strange plaque interior of the Adam House lecture theatre!

& day 2 just as good - urban conservation & intervention; urban mass housing; new towns, modernist heritage & the future. Brava to Moa Carlsson, Alistair Fair & Miles Glendinning for their hard work convening the event.

Chuffed to see myself quoted by Suzanne Ewing in her excellent paper on the brilliant Voices of Experience project @thesahgb.bsky.social annual conference this afternoon.

Excellent start to @thesahgb.bsky.social ‘Future Heritage’ conference — sustainability & heritage first, then diversity & heritage. An excellent series of papers and more tomorrow.

Indeed! the power of what I called 'sites of encounter' (in Re-forming Britain, 2007). Follow Elsa L. 1 way & she takes you to the heart of early English modernism via Fitzrovia & Wells Coates. I esp like that, later, her home at 34 Gordon Square, was in same building where the MARS Group met.

Mella Shaw’s installation at McManus Gallery Dundee is well worth your time.

This wonderful tapestry which celebrates West Port Garden and Norah Geddes was on display at the symposium. So beautifully made.

And what a great afternoon of papers! Thanks to @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social for the invitation.

Looking forward to speaking at what promises to be a fascinating symposium today.

SAHGB ‘Future Heritage’ Conference 2025 — SAHGB This two-day SAHGB conference, supported by Docomomo-International and Docomomo-Scotland, will explore the idea of ‘future heritage’.

Ticket sales for the upcoming SAHGB 'Future Heritage' Conference close this Friday.

The finalised schedule, including short abstracts from all speakers, is available online.

sahgb.org.uk/whatson/future-heritage

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Excellent exhibition about James VI/I at the Portrait in Edinburgh. Some lovely things on display.

& this afternoon went to say hello to Norah Geddes’s surviving garden at West Port. Info here: grassmarketresidents.org
Currently open 2-4 on Sundays.

Delighted to see such a positive review of Jessica Kelly’s & Neal Shasore’s edited volume Reconstruction to which I had the honour to write the Foreword.

Sign for exhibition “Nurture through Nature” exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh

Shortly heading off to give a talk at the City Art Centre about Free Kindergartens, nature and play - part of a series to accompany the very good exhibition “Nurture through Nature” at Museum of Edinburgh.

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Poster for documentary film about the novelist Edna O’Brien

This made for fascinating (and very moving) viewing. An extraordinary woman.

This is worrying!

Sculpture made of projected light by Anthony McCall At Tate Modern.

Sculpture made of projected light by Anthony McCall At Tate Modern.

Amazing Anthony McCall installations at Tate Modern today.

Image credit: John East

Image credit: John East

NEWS: We're very pleased to announce that the modernist Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue (1966-67), a dedicated Holocaust Memorial believed to be Internationally unique, has been saved from demolition with a Grade II listing designation.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

C20society campaign posters for buildings at risk on a street wall.

Spotted this morning, Seven Dials, Brighton @c20society.bsky.social