Our Rural Modernism network has a new book out soon! New Lives New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain is…
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select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
Urban commons Anti-globalisation/environmental/anti-war protests Sources Operation Solstice documentary: https://youtu.be/rdztgEB5SlI Reclaim the Streets film: https://archive.org/details/ngv_lo_en_20041101_reclaim_the_streets_the_film Do or Die magazine issues 1-10:…
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rhododendrons
I’ve been working on the idea of the park as an enclosed space, and had an idle thought about the…
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BBC Radio 4 Analysis, ‘what’s the point of street protest?’
I was interviewed by Prof James Tilley for BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, ‘What’s the point of street protest?’ on…
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East London primary sources
Courtesy of Prof Laura Vaughan of UCL, with my own additions: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056449/2/Mapping-Society.pdf https://alondoninheritance.com/?s=limehouse Goad Fire Insurance Plans for the area…
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The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
This year at Womad festival, I was privileged to chair a panel of authors from Comma Press’s collection, The Cuckoo…
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MERL OSS lantern slide exhibition now online
The online exhibition that I’ve done showcasing my favourite Open Spaces Society lantern slides at The Museum of English Rural…
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Frow lecture at the WCML: trespass and enclosure
As part of the Working Class Movement Library’s series of events commemorating the Mass Trespass of 1932, I gave the…
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Histories of privacy
The history of privacy generally falls into two approaches: 1. the intrusion of the state into controlling personal information about…
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Pavements bibliography
Primary sources: George Scharf, sketches of laying gas mains in London streets, 1834: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1862-0614-304- Scharf, sketch of children clearing snow,…