Carl Lee
@drcarllee.bsky.social
Likes cities, loves Sheffield.
PhD geographer and retired university lecturer
Latest book
"So where are you from?"
Geography, Identity and Place.
PhD geographer and retired university lecturer
Latest book
"So where are you from?"
Geography, Identity and Place.
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Carl Lee
@drcarllee.bsky.social
· Jan 3
World of Music
Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
worldlymusic.blogspot.com
Check out Alan Parkinson's new 'World of Music 365 blog' A post every day about music and its geographical connections including how it connects us to specific places or moments in time, captures landscapes and emotions or forms part of our cultural geography. worldlymusic.blogspot.com
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The 2nd of Carl Lee’s guest posts is now up on the World of Music blog and we’ve gone through 1000 page views - lots of opportunities to participate worldlymusic.blogspot.com
World of Music
Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
worldlymusic.blogspot.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The 2nd of Carl Lee’s guest posts is now up on the World of Music blog and we’ve gone through 1000 page views - lots of opportunities to participate worldlymusic.blogspot.com
Hamnet - worthy of the hype. Structurally different from the book and obviously without its nuanced detail but Jessie Buckley puts in an astonishing performance. Well worth going to see at the cinema to wallow in its intensity.
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Hamnet - worthy of the hype. Structurally different from the book and obviously without its nuanced detail but Jessie Buckley puts in an astonishing performance. Well worth going to see at the cinema to wallow in its intensity.
'Galang and the Shefffield clank'. @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social worldlymusic.blogspot.com
World of Music
Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
worldlymusic.blogspot.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
'Galang and the Shefffield clank'. @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social worldlymusic.blogspot.com
Check out Alan Parkinson's new 'World of Music 365 blog' A post every day about music and its geographical connections including how it connects us to specific places or moments in time, captures landscapes and emotions or forms part of our cultural geography. worldlymusic.blogspot.com
World of Music
Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
worldlymusic.blogspot.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Check out Alan Parkinson's new 'World of Music 365 blog' A post every day about music and its geographical connections including how it connects us to specific places or moments in time, captures landscapes and emotions or forms part of our cultural geography. worldlymusic.blogspot.com
Mick Jones - Sheffield photographer - RIP
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December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mick Jones - Sheffield photographer - RIP
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Faboulously entertaining afternoon listening to the very talented Sheffield Beatles Project. This is becoming a Sheffield Christmas tradition that will soon have lasted longer than The Beatles themselves.
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Faboulously entertaining afternoon listening to the very talented Sheffield Beatles Project. This is becoming a Sheffield Christmas tradition that will soon have lasted longer than The Beatles themselves.
Light-up Sheffield - on until Sunday. Well worth a visit.
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Light-up Sheffield - on until Sunday. Well worth a visit.
The biggest music act you have probably never heard of Lanlao or SKAI ISYOURGOD from smalltown Guangdong, China. Here is 'Blueprint Supreme' from earlier this year. On Douyin China's homegrown Youtube he has 1.7 billion views
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkg...
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大展鴻圖Blueprint Supreme - 攬佬SKAI ISYOURGOD/AR劉夫陽【English translate&Singalong Version】
YouTube video by Beat Lair
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December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The biggest music act you have probably never heard of Lanlao or SKAI ISYOURGOD from smalltown Guangdong, China. Here is 'Blueprint Supreme' from earlier this year. On Douyin China's homegrown Youtube he has 1.7 billion views
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkg...
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A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation
Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
I've been to a fair few Sheffield derby's over the year - even U21 matches. Always a nasty, hostile & sometimes violent occasion. Significant numbers of Sheffield men(always men) - young & old disgracing themselves & their city. The halting of trams is no surprise
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mayor defends plan to cancel trams for Steel City derby
Oliver Coppard says he took the decision due to disorder at previous Wednesday vs United matches.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I've been to a fair few Sheffield derby's over the year - even U21 matches. Always a nasty, hostile & sometimes violent occasion. Significant numbers of Sheffield men(always men) - young & old disgracing themselves & their city. The halting of trams is no surprise
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Politicians are supplying them with volatility, and a period of volatility, as one source told me, is “when you make tonnes of money”."
'Meet the bond market vigilantes'Will Dunn
Worth a read especially if you are thinking of voting Reform, Green or Our Party
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
'Meet the bond market vigilantes'Will Dunn
Worth a read especially if you are thinking of voting Reform, Green or Our Party
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
Meet the bond market vigilantes
Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Politicians are supplying them with volatility, and a period of volatility, as one source told me, is “when you make tonnes of money”."
'Meet the bond market vigilantes'Will Dunn
Worth a read especially if you are thinking of voting Reform, Green or Our Party
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
'Meet the bond market vigilantes'Will Dunn
Worth a read especially if you are thinking of voting Reform, Green or Our Party
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
The Best Cities Report is an annual publication that amasses a variety of data across economic, social, cultural, infrastructural domaines to come up with a global top 100 of cities. Much haggling over the methodology is possible. London is number 1
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www.worldsbestcities.com/best-cities-...
2026 World’s Best Cities
2026 World’s Best Cities The 2026 World’s Best Cities Report ranks the overall performance of more than 270+ global cities, principal cities of metropolitan areas with populations of more than one mil...
www.worldsbestcities.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Best Cities Report is an annual publication that amasses a variety of data across economic, social, cultural, infrastructural domaines to come up with a global top 100 of cities. Much haggling over the methodology is possible. London is number 1
www.worldsbestcities.com/best-cities-...
www.worldsbestcities.com/best-cities-...
Latest rendering of what the finished Wellington Street Co-living block will look like. Sheffield will never have the sort of economy that enables exciting architecture at scale and this is the best part of a £100m project.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Latest rendering of what the finished Wellington Street Co-living block will look like. Sheffield will never have the sort of economy that enables exciting architecture at scale and this is the best part of a £100m project.
Not often Sheffield's skyline changes - we're not Manchester - it has been fairly low-rise but the crane going up on Coda's 32 floor co-living development on Wellington Streert - will be around 100m high. Photo Sterling777
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not often Sheffield's skyline changes - we're not Manchester - it has been fairly low-rise but the crane going up on Coda's 32 floor co-living development on Wellington Streert - will be around 100m high. Photo Sterling777
Reposted by Carl Lee
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Reposted by Carl Lee
This week, The Tribune had some really heartening news.
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
The tide is turning
Five years ago, we set out to change local journalism. It looks like it’s starting to pay off
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This week, The Tribune had some really heartening news.
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
On Thursday, they announced the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards in December in London.
In the local news category, not one, but two of the journalists nominated are working for our tiny team right here in Sheffield!
Part of the model of 1900 Sheffield City Centre at the University of Sheffield Library exhibition of the work of architecture lecturer Peter Blundell Jones. Made by his PhD students in 1998.
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Part of the model of 1900 Sheffield City Centre at the University of Sheffield Library exhibition of the work of architecture lecturer Peter Blundell Jones. Made by his PhD students in 1998.
Stumbled on this. Kevin McCloud setting out how the UK housing market is shaped by a small number of large house builders whose control of the market enables them push up prices whist core prices of land & building materials remain largely static.
www.granddesignsmagazine.com/kevin-mcclou...
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Kevin McCloud on how major home builders are making huge profits
Our editor-at-large takes a look at building costs in the UK and discovers that all is not as you might expect.
www.granddesignsmagazine.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Stumbled on this. Kevin McCloud setting out how the UK housing market is shaped by a small number of large house builders whose control of the market enables them push up prices whist core prices of land & building materials remain largely static.
www.granddesignsmagazine.com/kevin-mcclou...
www.granddesignsmagazine.com/kevin-mcclou...
A Tasquinha Dos Guindais restaurant in Porto - basically a few tables in an alley and old fella with a bbq and sardines, a salad and white wine. Cash only and a discussion on the why Salah isn't hitting his usual heights this season. Holiday perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A Tasquinha Dos Guindais restaurant in Porto - basically a few tables in an alley and old fella with a bbq and sardines, a salad and white wine. Cash only and a discussion on the why Salah isn't hitting his usual heights this season. Holiday perfection.
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If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
Renishaw (Derbyshire) Harvest - 28th September - two weeks earlier than last year and a far better harvest.
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Renishaw (Derbyshire) Harvest - 28th September - two weeks earlier than last year and a far better harvest.
Miriam is a national treasure.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Miriam is a national treasure.
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Very frothy and indignant commentary on ID cards at present. Personally I am not bothered by it - it will bring us into line with virtually all other European nations. Clearly all sorts of issues around the system would need to be debated - cost - effectiveness of UK gov roll-out - mandatory?
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Very frothy and indignant commentary on ID cards at present. Personally I am not bothered by it - it will bring us into line with virtually all other European nations. Clearly all sorts of issues around the system would need to be debated - cost - effectiveness of UK gov roll-out - mandatory?
Just been interacting with an AI chatbox for ID mobile. Absolutely useless. Bring back humans
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Just been interacting with an AI chatbox for ID mobile. Absolutely useless. Bring back humans
Scottish Green Party leadership election - 7,000 members only 950 voted - 13.5% turnout. Is this indicative of modern politics - all shouty, polemical social media but few folk actually engaging and participating?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542506...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542506...
LIVE: Scottish Green leadership contest result
The results of the Scottish Greens leadership contest are set to be announced at an event in Edinburgh this morning. Lorna Slater, Ross Greer,…
www.heraldscotland.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Scottish Green Party leadership election - 7,000 members only 950 voted - 13.5% turnout. Is this indicative of modern politics - all shouty, polemical social media but few folk actually engaging and participating?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542506...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542506...