Elizabeth Darling

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

📯📯 Important blogpost!

Thank you !

Couldn’t see @thesahgb.bsky.social

Contents list for a book on BBC Broadcasting House

Page of images of BBC studios in 1932

Well it’s with the publisher! My manuscript & its many marvellous illustrations is now at the beginning of the production process. Look out for a new history of #BBC Broadcasting
House early next summer.

The RIBA Collections Move: An Update - Sep 2025 - SAHGB The Society has sought some further information about access to archival material during the interim closure period of the RIBA Study Room.

Important new update on RIBA collections move on @thesahgb.bsky.social website. www.sahgb.org.uk/features/the...

Some good #20s30s stuff on radio 4 at the mo.

In town yesterday for the launch of @ejngee.bsky.social excellent new book. Beautifully researched & with great illustrations. An important contribution to our understanding of how working women occupied the late Victorian and Edwardian city.

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And paging all those involved in practising architectural history in the U.K. and indeed elsewhere! Whether that be in an academic context, in practice or in the museums and archives sector.

Enjoying the 90th birthday celebrations at Embassy Court today.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I just signed the open letter & joined the campaign. Access to the written archives was vital to the book I’m completing about BBC Broadcasting House.

And money when he died. It interests me how rarely exhibs/art histories talk about artists’ income - but it can explain a lot I think.

Photo of Vanessa Bell

Two early canvases by Bell - one an abstract one showing a group at a street corner

Still life if tray with coffee pot and cup and jug

View of a display of Omega Workshop products.

The Vanessa Bell show at Charleston in Lewes is worth a visit. The pre-1914 work is for me most interesting & convincing. Would like to know what her income was in these early years - how much came from private income (she can’t have sold enough work to live on those sales).

Terence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema and star of The Limey and Superman, dies at 87 Family says actor who worked with William Wyler, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Steven Soderbergh, ‘leaves behind an extraordinary body of work’

RIP Terence Stamp.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

A typescript on a table with a coffee.

Hoping what I wrote on Wednesday makes sense …

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.