You can get 25% off my book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN at Waterstones, with the code SUMMER25 until Thursday 31 #WPreorder
28.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Does anybody have experience applying for the National Lottery’s Community Fund? Seeking advice & examples of successful past applications - gratefully received!
06.06.2025 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My book is out on 28 October with
@versobooks.bsky.social 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: www.waterstones.com/book/up-in-t...
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do i know anybody with a good camera who might be willing to take a picture of a newspaper page at the british library for me? needs to be 300dpi at least... imaging and scanners still down after cyberattack :( can pay! ££
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....that is what we call welcome news!! thanks peter
06.04.2025 20:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
does anybody know of an archive for the Guardian where I can access page numbers for articles post 2010? Gale, ProQuest and Lexis all seem to have given up paginating for contemporary articles?!
06.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Historians of bsky... I'm looking forward to helping put together this exciting new conference at the new Queen Mary Centre for British Studies. Call for papers deadline is 24th January! ⌛
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Picked up an outrageously cheap copy of James Stirling’s Black Book of buildings and projects (1975). Wonderful pictures of a personal favourite building, the Cambridge History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social - this is where I learned how to be a historian ♥️
23.11.2024 21:38 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
Alistair Cartwright wrote an excellent PhD on private rented rooms in London! eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45...
22.11.2024 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m giving a lunchtime talk on Britain’s community architecture movement for the Bartlett’s Situating Architecture Lecture Series at UCL - talking about self-build, squatting + student protest 🧱🔧 Come!
📍 1pm, Monday 2 December
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
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Photographer, London based
www.robclayton.co.uk
www.stayfreepublishing.co.uk
Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Twelfth issue out June 2025!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
4th year PhD candidate at Cardiff University with Historic England and University of Bristol. | Social welfare, urban space and photography in C20 Britain.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/levygales
Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, modern Britain | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL
http://andrew-seaton.com
Bringing together all those interested in the built environment's history.
All Periods, All Places, All Welcome.
www.sahgb.org.uk
Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Incoming Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD from Cambridge on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Teach history - https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Generally likes flawed red things.
RUTHLESS CRITICISM OF ALL THAT EXISTS /
editorial @ serpents tail / profile books
Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
PhD student at University of Warwick, on shopping centre design in c20 Britain. Architectural modernism, public art, interior design, urban space, etc.
PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying the architectural and urban history of Britain in the 1990s and early 2000s
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/tom-goodwin/
historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute. Rather passionate about London, Activist, LGBTQ+ & Fetish Archives. Bass Player.
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford. Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
PhD student and teaching associate @qmul.ac.uk / Writing a new history of Euroscepticism in Britain, 1975-1997 @ghilondon.bsky.social / Helping organise the Queen Mary Centre for British Studies (QMCBS) @qmcbs.bsky.social / One member of Preen the Band
