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This will be excellent. Also feeds in to the annual conference theme of C20 cathedrals. Limited numbers on the tour so worth booking early.

Yesterday I was grateful to give evidence about palliative care (wrt the assisted dying Bill) at an event in Parliament. This is what I said 🧵

I visited Amsterdam, Gouda & Haarlem over Easter to look at stained glass. Starting to process the 1000s of photos I took. Here are Philip II of Spain & Mary Tudor in adoration of the Last Supper at Sint Janskerk, Gouda. Made by Dirck Crabeth 1557-9. Phenomenal skill.

PhD studentship! Come and work with me at Cambridge (where I'll be based from September) and the Centre for Studies of Home Museum of the Home We're looking for someone interested in early modern art/architecture/social history to work on painting in lower-class homes: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51170/

What mindest would look at a Wallace & Grommit movie and declare it a national security threat?

Published last year in The Victorian Society’s Architects Series to mark the bicentenary of his birth, this is the first monograph of GE Street, the prolific High Victorian architect. Geoff Brandwood was a member of our Council and a former chairman of the Vic Soc. victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publicati…

I would not usually use such language, even in abbreviated form. But WTAF.

So, what things from today will still be around in 100 years time⁉️

But sure...let's legislate for something this society changing in this way...

This picture is worth 10,000 words.

For the mover of a bill to present such a huge number of amendments to their *own* bill suggests a serious lack of confidence in its safety and rigour. In 20 years I’ve not seen anything so shambolic. Even supporters of the bill must surely see that the bill can’t pass like this.

Book now for the free Annual Lecture on 13 June (following the AGM) to be given online by Prof John Cooper on “St Stephen's Chapel Westminster and the House of Commons, 1292-1950”. ecclsoc.org.uk/events/agm-and…

This will be a great evening. Contributions from Bishop David Stancliffe and Prof Diarmaid McCulloch as well.

The choice of background music is unfortunate, but the content itself is utterly shocking - a consistently disingenuous and dishonest presentation by the Bill's sponsor and supporters. This Bill simply must fail.

Come and hear @TudorGentleman (aka John Cooper) talk about the fascinating St Stephen's Chapel at Ecclsoc on 13 June at 7.15pm. Free online lecture; book online at tickettailor.com/events/theeccl…. David Stancliffe & Diarmaid MacCulloch also speaking at AGM earlier.

I had the honour of giving Oxford's Wesley Lecture this year, which you can watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=2C6jws…. Will be of interest to The Methodist Church, HistoricChapelsTrust, Ecclsoc, SAHGB, The Georgian Group .

#CfP We are now inviting paper proposals for a conference on BUILDING SITES in Early Modern Europe (c.1400-1700). Proposals due by 5 September 2025. For ➕ info see: csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/building-sites… Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture SAHGB The Georgian Group