The Modernist Society are holding a super day of talks on the democratisation of design in mid 20th century Britain. Litter and street furniture including bins are an integral part of public space. I am speaking about the anti-litter campaign in Britain,
Friday 16 August Saturday 17 August Sunday 18 August
20 July-22 September 2019 Go take a look on the 2nd floor at my exhibition on sites of protest and political meeting in Manchester and Salford Maps available on this page: https://historyofpublicspace.uk/exhibition/ Part of the #Peterloo2019 commemorations With contributions by Amanda Rogers,
I am an upland person. I grew up surrounded on three sides by the foothills of the southern Pennines. I am shaped by views of Blackstone Edge, its dark millstone grit, from afar and up close, approaching it from the ‘Roman Road’
I’m coming back to earlier archival research I did on common rights and the Commons Registration Act 1965. Key reading is chapter 4 of Christopher P Rodgers et al, Contested Common Land: environmental governance past and present (2011) and J. W. Aitchison,
“You could not escape the moors. They did not impose themselves. They simply surrounded and waited. They were withdrawn, they hid behind their edges showing their possessions only upward, to the sky, and they preferred to be left alone, seeming almost to
I am giving a public lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, on Monday 1 July. https://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/events
Sometimes the shorter articles provoke the most interesting of thoughts for this project. I’m increasingly finding really rich material in legal scholarship. Gavin Parker’s article, ‘Rights, the Environment and Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’, Area, 31:
‘contested public space and protest in urban Britain from the 18th century to today’
A couple of weeks ago, news of private developers netting hedges and trees to prevent migratory birds nesting in them started to raise objections on social media. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47627749 More recently, local people near the affected areas have taken action such as setting