Elizabeth Darling

A new chapter for Architectural History, the principal publication of the @thesahgb.bsky.social
From 2026, the journal will publish fully #OpenAccess. Submissions are now open under the editorship of Alborz Dianat (University College Dublin).

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#WHM A different type of resource today & #ODNB ongoing programme to increase its coverage of women - the brilliant Lynne Walker has written many of these on women in/and architecture. See this for more on the programme of updates: www.oxforddnb.com/fileasset/AM...

Had to choose this germinal book from 1998 for #IWD - so important for expanding ideas of architectural agency & showing women’s centrality to the project of modernism.

YouTube video by Royal Movie Trailer THE BRIDE (2025) – Official Trailer | Christian Bale & Jessie Buckley Horror Remake

Went to see The Bride! It’s somewhere between bonkers & brilliant - I really enjoyed it & consider it, in part, a fine homage to the original Bride, the mighty Elsa Lanchester. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7fi...

Maybe not arch hist per se but v influential on it. From 1983, this book contributed to a wave of scholarship which explored architecture as a site for the production of gendered identities, often, tho’ not exclusively, in the domestic sphere. #WHM

Wasn’t going to blow my own trumpet on this thread but given the AJ article here’s a book from 2017 that covers a century of architect women’s work. Part of the major AAXX100 project led by Lynne Walker & me, which celebrated the centenary of women’s admission to the AA #WHM

Diminishing the achievements of women architects feeds into today’s inequalities So many important female pioneers in architecture are barely remembered, let alone celebrated, write Biba Dow and Ros Diamond

There’s decades of work by women architectural historians exploring the work of women in/and architecture - it would be great if this work weren’t forgotten/ completely disregarded. See my posts doe the last few days!!!@news.architectsjournal.co.uk

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Forgetting the achievements of women architects feeds into today’s inequalities

Diminishing the achievements of women architects feeds into today’s inequalities

Redacted emails raise questions over the BBC’s relationsh... Internal BBC emails show how a project that may have shed light on the broadcaster’s negotiations with the royal household was quietly shelved

The BBC WAC Campaign has after months of chasing through FOI uncovered the motivation for the 11th hour pulling of a public catalogue of its written archives. This falls short of the basic requirement of a major archive as well as the Charter itself.

£ but see reply.
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The only recent publication that considers Jane Drew & her work both independently and with Max Fry. (For the purposes of this thread I am bestowing temporary womanhood on male co-authors!).

Always delighted to see more appreciation for the mighty Durutti Column - love Vini Reilly’s response to Mr Styles’s interest: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lovely book on a great building. Published 1994.

Today it’s all about Expo ‘67 in this excellent book from 2010. #whm

Cover of a book by Isabella Anscombld showing a group of women - in the style of Sonia Delaunay

Contents list of the book A Woman’s Touch

A decade before, this was published by Virago:

Cover of 1994 book on architecture & social reform by Deborah Wiener. Cover depicts a London School Board building.

it’s #WHM, so I thought I’d post about books that explore women in/& architecture/built env’t & the women who write them. Women architectural historians go rather not seen. So today, an excellent book from 1994 & a link to a short piece I wrote about it. womenwritingarchitecture.org/annotation/e...

Recommend a visit to The Pankhurst Centre - the house in which the WSPU was formed. It’s really well done & super interesting. Has anyone done work on how the suffragettes learnt their militant/military techniques??? Self generated or learnt from others???

In Manchester to give a talk at Manchester School of Architecture - great to have the opportunity to discuss the ideas and themes it explores.

Hope you’ve seen my discussion of Wells Coates’s work for Crysede (and later Cresta) in my 2012 book about him.

Being spoiled by BBC radio - whole day devoted to Kenneth Williams on 4extra , on @sixmusic.bsky.social @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Neil Brand talking about music & silent movies - fascinating for me as my great g’dad Enoch Leeming played violin in the orchestra of the Alhambra cinema in Edinburgh!

Looking forward to speaking about my forthcoming book next week for Manchester Architecture Research Group #MARG, @manchester.ac.uk

Good to see an article on SBAC listing that acknowledges its significance as one element in a landscape of publicly-funded culture. Re-posting the link to my Co-authored article that explores this idea in detail - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open Access so freely available.

Still delighted to see this listed. But given the current undermining of humanities & culture in U.K., more than being exemplary Brutalism, the SBAC’s significance lies in it forming part of a resounding assertion of the value of the arts to national life & as something worthy of state support.

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Opportunity alert: call for new deputy editors for @_thesahgb journal.

I wouldn’t hold my breath!

Can't believe it's finally been listed; albeit at Grade 2. Moons ago I wrote to the then Min of Environment (?Heseltine?) to protest its non-listed status; got the usual waffle in reply. Missing from the listing bibliog is @alistairfair.bsky.social & me on SBAC: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

& now we have a book cover!

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Really enjoyed seeing this lovely film this evening blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

At Charleston today to see the Roger Fry exhibition. The garden was looking spectral.

Copies of Architectural History 68 are landing on doorsteps for members of @thesahgb.bsky.social. Non-members can view several Open Access articles online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Poster for Barbara Stanwyck 1933 film “Babyface”.

Still Of Barbara Stanwyck in the film “Babyface” 1933

Very much enjoyed seeing Babyface (1933) today - great performance by Barbara Stanwyck & fab costumes too plus surprising reference to Nietzsche! Part of picturehouse cinema’s series on pre-code Hollywood films.