Really pleased to announce the launch of a thoroughly updated version of Locating London's Past: locatinglondon.org@ihr.bsky.social@long18thsem.bsky.social@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
One for those who enjoy the details and materiality of design. I still find it odd that the Mildmay Line is named after the hospital (which is nearest to stations on the Windrush Line) and not the area Mildmay, which it passes through www.sjsp.org.uk/history/
Yes! Reminded me a little of the Victoria Kirkcaldy.
The other day I inadvertently borrowed the Hertfordshire Pevsner from the library instead of Herefordshire. The result is a blog post on the Hertfordshire hospitals, looking back at what was there in the 1990s, and how much has gone. historic-hospitals.com/2024/10/04/h... (Next up - Herefordshire.)
NEW! ‘Sick Hands, Thin and White, Were Always Slipping Offerings across My Windowsill, Offerings for the Little Birdlings’: Multispecies Encounters within and around Modern Rural British Sanatoria (let me know if you can’t access it) #hstm#envhums#envhistwww.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
The use of ‘open-air’ as a therapeutic agent in sanatoria, hospitals, and schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to the development of specific material features associated w...
Speaking at this next week. Do join digitally or in person - fantastic roster of speakers and we've prepped with lots of zoom discussions in advance. I hope we'll conclude that the front left of the poster image is a better precedent than the cityscape behind. carta.anthropogeny.org/events/how-h...
Reminds me of visiting my Dad at work in the late 1960s when he worked as a civil servant at the Board of Trade (I think). They were based at Eastcote in a war-time hut, entirely filled with a computer - lots of tall cabinets with reels, similar to the illustration.
It’s a great site, but the 1960s children’s block needs some tlc. (Or talc, if I’m careless with the autocorrect.) Good to see you here btw! 👋
'Not only genius feats of engineering but genuinely beautiful architectural forms' - playwright James 'Sherwood' Graham on power station cooling towers. He who wants to preserve a set as a monument. Agree? We at the C20 Society have started a petition: www.change.org/p/save-brita...
Save Britain's Cooling Towers
Got round to reading the full John Muir Trust In Crisis dossier, I cannot believe that this hasn't gotten more press, it's absolutely shocking. This article in TFN summarises - tfn.scot/news/exclusi...jmtcrisis.secureserversites.net/document%3A-...
The financial crisis, management, and general condition of the John Muir Trust