Holly Smith
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Historian + Research Fellow @StJohnsCam @Cambridge_Uni//My book, UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN @VersoBooks, is available for preorder 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
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Does anybody have experience applying for the National Lottery’s Community Fund? Seeking advice & examples of successful past applications - gratefully received! Please send me a DM 📩.
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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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Today!! If you fancy it ☺️🏠🧱🔧.
I'm going to be speaking about my research on Britain's post-war community architecture movement on Monday 4 Nov in London, for the Voluntary Action History Seminar @VAHS_uk at the Institute of Historical Research 🛠️🧱 Do come! 👋
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I'm going to be speaking about my research on Britain's post-war community architecture movement on Monday 4 Nov in London, for the Voluntary Action History Seminar @VAHS_uk at the Institute of Historical Research 🛠️🧱 Do come! 👋
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RT @JolyonMaugham: So Labour is simultaneously going to stop conversion therapy - promised in the King's Speech - and forcibly detransition….
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RT @full_hearts: look me in the eye and tell me you're voting for this! tell me I can't use the women's bathroom! tell me I deserve to be t….
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RT @emmadentcoad: Spoke to Open Democracy on why I'm standing as an Indie on Thursday. No one gets everything right - but I quote Tony Be….
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Mark Hall Secondary Modern School in Harlow New Town, by Sheppard and Partners (1954). Faced with mixture of Staffordshire blue bricks and yellow London stock, with colourful glazed tiles under the windows. Demolished :(
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best book on Haussmann’s paris? not david harvey pls (sorry david).
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This is Coronation Court - Liverpool's stylish showpiece slab block of the 1950s. Does anyone know if this style of window has a specific name? Tecton also used them at Spa Green.
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is there any way to access the British Library's Sound archive at the moment? Missing the Architects' Lives series :(.
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I reviewed Neal Shasore's fantastic book 'Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London' for @UrbanHistoryCUP. It provides a rich and expansive revision of a period which has been over-dominated by the story of the rise of modernism
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Does anybody know where I could find a set of back-issues for SCOOP (the Society for Co-operative Dwellings newsletter) from the 1970s & 1980s? Thwarted by the BL's cyberattack :(.
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RT @NewYorker: “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma….
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This is tonight in Cambridge! 🔔 Community Architecture between Left and Right: I’m talking about the curious history of participatory architecture in Britain
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can anyone tell me if Brian Anson (the radical anarchist who co-founded the Architects’ Revolutionary Council in the 1970s) is the same person who wrote these sweet 1970s children’s books following the lives of city mice about town? i hope so!
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