Holly Smith
@hol__smith
Historian + Research Fellow @StJohnsCam @Cambridge_Uni//My book, UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN @VersoBooks, is available for preorder 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
My book is out on 28 October with @VersoBooks 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: waterstones.com/book/up-in-the…
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 📩
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! ££
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! 👋 history.ac.uk/events/communi…
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! 👋 history.ac.uk/events/communi…
So Labour is simultaneously going to stop conversion therapy - promised in the King's Speech - and forcibly detransition under 18s - promised by Wes Streeting? How does that cohere as a policy platform?
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 treated like a freak! tell me this isn't a red line for you!
Horrifying to see Keir rip up decades of Equality Law Allies don’t vote Labour on Thursday
Spoke to Open Democracy on why I'm standing as an Indie on Thursday. No one gets everything right - but I quote Tony Benn here who foresaw precisely where we are right now. #IndependentsDay4July opendemocracy.net/en/labour-emma…
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 :(
best book on Haussmann’s paris? not david harvey pls (sorry david)
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...
is there any way to access the British Library's Sound archive at the moment? Missing the Architects' Lives series :(
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 doi.org/10.1017/S09639…
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 :(
“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/BUjT0b5
This is tonight in Cambridge! 🔔 Community Architecture between Left and Right: I’m talking about the curious history of participatory architecture in Britain eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-ar…
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!
