As staff British Library work to restore services following the cyber attack, Royal Historical Society has a listing of guides, alternative content & workarounds for use by historians: bit.ly/3GoL8pA We also invite recommendations for additional content for use by #twitterstorians

We are delighted to announce that Gary A. Boyd's "Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain" won this year’s SAHGB’s Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for outstanding contribution to architectural history!

Excellent but - maybe - not urgent enough. Online must follow? thecritic.co.uk/the-end-of-pev…

I applaud this mindful listing of a fibreglass-clad Yachstmans Facilities (of the late 1960s?) in Brighton Marina, by Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna. Fibreglass is almost impossible to recycle and should always be carefully preserved. More of this please docomomo.org.uk/campaign/local…

UPDATE Today a short service was held for Holford Associates' shuffled-off-this-coil Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Despite its wide influence, only a few construction workers managed to attend the funeral and pulverised and vandalised dearly beloved.

Our article about the loss of archives in Zambia is now available and there are 50 free copies to read: tandfonline.com/eprint/AM9UIRQ…

Coming soon! Don't miss this exciting conference in April at the School of Art History! Details below! Centre for Energy Ethics Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UCL #BritishArt #Climate #Pollution

Does anyone fancy a trip to Dunkin' Donuts with me later? I think that they left this one in the fryer too long.

NEWS // The extraordinary Egyptian-style Sphinx Hill house in Oxfordshire has been Grade II* listed, following an application by C20. Designed by John Outram Associates in 1998-99, the designation makes the Post-Modern property the youngest listed building in the country. ➡️

How it started // How it's going Against stiff competition The Fence Magazine gave the 2024 Carbuncle Cup to the bldg that replaced Liverpool's Futurist Cinema on Lime St🎥 SAVE fought hard for this jolly landmark. Its only trace now: an etching on the facade bit.ly/4eCdXPc

The Curse of 2019 is strong with this one... Disposed Prime Ministers generally keep a low profile once they have been evicted from 10 Downing Street, so this misjudgement is the icing on the cake in a very chaotic and inadvertently amusing campaign. youtube.com/watch?v=VJbMTA…

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

RIP Greggs menu. You are the only portentous symbol of a global IT crisis here in Liverpool. Even a simple Greggs menu can has epic Blue Screen of Death

I am excited to share my chapter 'The First Iraq Architecture School between Nationalism, Modernity and Identity' which is part of the 'The History of Architectural Education in the Middle East and North Africa' published by Edinburgh University Press

From Cold War China to earliest Iran and U.S. New Deal to late-colonial Mozambique, SAH Virtual 2024 will visit every continent connecting our constructed world to cultural, political, and economic issues past and present. Learn more and register: bit.ly/4d0dsNG

Today is "la rentrée" in France, and I'm giving a talk on Turner and pollution this Wednesday online Turner's House