Geraint Franklin

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

This looks great!

In Ireland
• Nature is haemorrhaging
• Water bodies are sick and dying
• Greenhouse gas emissions from land are soaring
• Flooding is ever more catastrophic
• Etc...

Because we've turned nearly all wild, natural habitat into barren monocultures of grass or shitka.

Mass REWILDING is the solution.

Congratulations-- what a great cover!

DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…

Mark’s passion and precision is spot on. And so very vital. The WAC is a *stunning* resource. It must be allowed — empowered — to thrive. SHARE.

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Um, no thanks

Historian Emily Chung dressed in shades of brown, standing against the grey brick of a Victorian building.

The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows.

@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history

🍁Don't miss the first lecture in our autumn online lecture series tomorrow 21 Oct at 19.00hrs 🔔

Our series celebrates the flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are authors of new books.

Buy 7 Talks for price of 6: bit.ly/4pOE2jD

Lunes.

How old postcards reveal the destruction of chalk downland This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Rifling through boxes of old postcards in junk shops is, admittedly, not my coolest pastime. But it’s something I’ve started doing of late, because some o…

4/ Using evidence gathered from old postcards, maps and the accounts of shepherds and botanists, I want to rebuild a picture of the chalk downland that existed until the 1940s - and in doing so, help efforts to restore it.

Please get involved here:

ghostsofchalkcountry.org/2025/09/14/h...

I would sign up to that. And sans AI!

Fair 'nough; Bandcamp it is! And CDs.

Joel, is there a service that you'd recommend as a more ethical alternative?

Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇

Wild reporting.

Screenshot from a WhatsApp chat between me and my mum

Mum discourse

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9

Oh my goodness. That should really be the illustration in the book..

What a fab selection!

I think this 25% off promotion ends tomorrow, so pre-order your copy now!

That's because the U.S. government, military, and corporations have been doing all this same shit to people around the world for over 100 years. Fascism is colonialism turned inward. This is often called the "imperial boomerang."

A shoebox sized block of stone (tuff) cut to be used as a brick

A disorganised pile of stone 'bricks'.

Several pallets of stone bricks.

There seems to be a big deal about 'eco-bricks' made from stone in the UK..., meanwhile in Italy, almost every building supplies outlet sells these.

Ed Gorey cover: Nineteenth Century German Tales Edited by Angel Flores A Doubleday Anchor Original Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

Book Cover of the Day:

Somewhere in Bucks?

Join us for Robert Thorne's online lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt.

The polymath Wyatt was an architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur.

Ed Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialised in what we today call surveying. There will be details on how his intricate 100-page notebook was found which gives instructions and data on surveying, carpentry, husbandry, building costs and more.

Waterstones 25% off RRP on upcoming books, such as High-Tech Britain. Prr-order now with code OCTOBER25

It's a book on High-Tech Architecture. Made out of wood pulp. Not even holograms or shiny inks. I mean.

Image © Howard Kingsnorth - Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (1964)

EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more!

Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

See full calendar below 👇🏼