Momentum with us in final YouGov MRP. Cutting the Tory lead in North Cotswolds to just 5%. Labour back in third. Historic opportunity to oust Geoffrey Clifton Brown and get change. #GE2024

Intriguing that the architecture of Somerset has been used to test the danger of feeding AI with its own outputs: from dubious cathedrals to Jack-rabbits in 9 easy stages! nature.com/articles/d4158…

E.S. Prior’s powerfully peculiar music school for Winchester College (1903) - I love this moment in architecture where the arts and crafts becomes strange and urbane.

My favourite pattern from the David Parr House

Well worth a listen, from 35:50 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Returning to Schinkel’s journals I find he visited the Potteries in June 1826, including Wedgwood at Etruria, he described the ‘wonderfully Egyptian-oriental forms… from a church quite high up on a hillside we had a magnificent view of all the Potteries: I drew a part of it.’

The advance copies are here!! 😃🎉 Available to order from boydellandbrewer.com, with a 25% until 31 Jan - enter code BB003 at the checkout. Covers Chipping Norton, Over Norton, Hook Norton, the Rollrights, Salford, Swerford - 403pp, 109 maps/illustrations, 8 colour plates

'Butcher's Shop at Night.' (c1930) Charles Paget Wade was an architect, artist and collector who devoted his life to amassing an enormous and varied collection of craftsmanship, mostly bought in antique shops and from dealers. In 1919 he bought and restored the semi-derelict

M is for Muswell Hill ----- 'Good Morning, Muswell Hill' (2014) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk

They are in totally different and very unrelated fields but you can tell they genuinely learnt about it regardless. This is the style that'll have you bouncing your head every Sunday morning 💕

In case of interest to any local followers: conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/chippi…

Some remarkable sights on the Malverns this afternoon. When I was there inversion level was about 350 metres. Photo taken on top of Pinnacle Hill at 357m and the only thing poking out of the fog south of the Wyche Cutting. 5°C in the fog, I reckon 12°C above it.

VICTORY! Well done to all those who campaigned against this reckless plan to destroy historical records.

Today we said 'thank you' to the irrepressible John Evetts, furnishings manager at Landmark for 40+ years, as he hangs up his Landmark boots, We gave him this lovely imagining of #OldCampdenHouse by Ed Kluz. I think he liked it!

Opportunities for involvement in an exciting project to list more Victorian buildings in the West Midlands

How to get OH rolling her eyes - pointing out that Sir William Bowman (after whom the new Silent Witness centre of excellence is named, see below) was an important client of Philip Webb’s (Joldwynds, Holmbury Hill)

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

#Design by #AWNPugin. Full-size #sketch of #cruet with plan of foot, top and back of #handle. ✨ Exhibition: 'Makers of Modern Gothic: A.W.N. Pugin & John Hardman Jr', V&A 3rd Feb-26th Oct. 2025. #pugin #augustuspugin #pugindesign #puginexhibition #gothicrevival #harman

Obama just said what everyone’s thinking but too many are afraid to admit: If he had done even a fraction of what Trump’s doing—blacklisting press, punishing dissent, targeting student protestors—the outrage would’ve been deafening. But now? Silence. Because when the

Join us on 8th June for a very special day devoted to Lutyens, Flockhart, Waterhouse and Voysey as we visit 'Goddards', a special house, on Abinger Common, in the glorious Surrey Hills National Landscape. 🧵 📷by our Lutyens Trust guide, Paul Waite #heritage