In Milton Keynes to look at housing archives and to give an introduction to new towns history at a Gardens Trust conference on new town planning and landscape design, alongside excellent papers & discussion from @lucaknorr.bsky.social @jossdurnan.bsky.social @demetrius-art.bsky.social and others.

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CREATURES OF FANCY, examining Mary Shelley’s interaction with Dundee’s cultural, religious, political, & scientific life, & the depiction of Scotland in both FRANKENSTEIN & Shelley’s later dystopian novel THE LAST MAN, is available from the Abertay Historical Society abertay.org.uk/product/crea...

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Quick trip to Newcastle for work. The Premier Inn was built in 1932 as a Co-Op dept store and it's nice to see some original features survive

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The Festival Hall is 75 years old this year. I was pleased to be asked to contribute to a new book which explores its history, architecture and life (shop.southbankcentre.co.uk/products/roy...)

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Thank you to @geraintfranklin.bsky.social for this review of Building Modern Scotland: well-timed for the paperback edition, which is out now!

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