I’m on Dan Snow’s popular podcast HistoryHit, on the history of enclosures in England and Wales: Link to the podcast here: https://podfollow.com/1042631089/episode/13ee7d03c66a922fc552b292897a4cb33bdac080/view
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497971970222305285.html PDF link of the entire thread: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16UXkEU9Z1aWz-cWtl4N-cUDMKa_EsnVB/view?usp=sharing Edina Digimap is available to all subscribing libraries and universities. It’s most useful if you want to download already geo-referenced OS maps. For just viewing old OS maps, maps.nls.uk is the best place to
Here are some initial findings from summary data on the landownership of the sites represented in the Open Spaces Society lantern slides: https://images.oss.org.uk/ at the Museum of English Rural Life. * For more on the project and the slides, go to: https://historyofpublicspace.uk/my-oss-fellowship-at-merl-2021/exhibition-of-open-spaces-society-lantern-slides-held-at-the-merl/
Adam Wagner does his brilliant work again summarising the new covid emergency regulations on where masks have to be worn. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021, passed 29 November 2021 It’s like deja vu again, but about
I’m talking on this new episode of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, ‘Architecture and Protest’. I’m discussing Chartists’ use of spaces and buildings for protest and political meetings: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/podcast/architecture-and-protest https://pod.link/1562980101/episode/1f5b0b2e216325dd3bb357af05503efa Adam Elliott-Cooper is a researcher based at the University
Twickenham riverside, 2020: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/council/regeneration_projects/twickenham_redevelopment/compulsory_purchase_order
I’m making a list of current or recent issues about registration of rights of way and land ownership: OSS lantern slide of Fetcham Mill Pond: https://images.oss.org.uk/photos/fetcham-millpond-surrey/
My Open Spaces Society fellowship has come to its formal end, but I’m still working on some of the lines of research raised by the collection. We’re also still hoping to get the planned online exhibition of selected lantern slides up and
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