Emily Cole
@emilyvcole.bsky.social
Senior architectural historian at Historic England. Expert in early modern country houses, C20 pubs and various things in between. FSA. Book on the Woolwich Rotunda forthcoming. Own views.
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🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?!
Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience.
Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...
Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience.
Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...
August 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?!
Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience.
Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...
Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience.
Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...
A visit to a new place! Llanidloes, Powys, not far from Newtown. Very interesting as it seems so little changed architecturally. An amazing number of shops still trading - which was so wonderful to see!
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A visit to a new place! Llanidloes, Powys, not far from Newtown. Very interesting as it seems so little changed architecturally. An amazing number of shops still trading - which was so wonderful to see!
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Applications are open to become the new Graduate Trainee at HES - after seeing how much fun our most recent trainee had I’m quite jealous! Please share widely: ekov.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Heritage Graduate Trainee
Here at HES, we are welcoming applications for the role of Heritage Graduate Trainee, which is a Grade 1 Fixed Term position working full time hours, based in Longmore House, Edinburgh.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Applications are open to become the new Graduate Trainee at HES - after seeing how much fun our most recent trainee had I’m quite jealous! Please share widely: ekov.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Call for Papers! VAG Winter Conference at University of Nottingham, 10 and 11 January 2026. Theme: 'Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: The study of urban building types and integration with urban studies'. Papers invited - full details in the CFP at www.vag.org.uk.
July 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Call for Papers! VAG Winter Conference at University of Nottingham, 10 and 11 January 2026. Theme: 'Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: The study of urban building types and integration with urban studies'. Papers invited - full details in the CFP at www.vag.org.uk.
It was wonderful to see friends, #HistoricEngland colleagues, stakeholders and so many others at the launch of our book on the Woolwich Rotunda earlier this week. For details, see: bsky.app/profile/livu...
July 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
It was wonderful to see friends, #HistoricEngland colleagues, stakeholders and so many others at the launch of our book on the Woolwich Rotunda earlier this week. For details, see: bsky.app/profile/livu...
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The Woolwich Rotunda: From waltzes to wargames by @emilyvcole.bsky.social, Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig is now available in Historic England's Informed Conservation series. This book highlights the building's innovation, placing the Rotunda in its historical context. bit.ly/HERotunda
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Woolwich Rotunda: From waltzes to wargames by @emilyvcole.bsky.social, Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig is now available in Historic England's Informed Conservation series. This book highlights the building's innovation, placing the Rotunda in its historical context. bit.ly/HERotunda
Some interesting sights from Bridgnorth, Shrops. The house where the great Thomas Telford lived in 1792 and some shopfronts. Beaman’s butchers sadly closed for good just last month, but hopefully another butcher will take it on!
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Some interesting sights from Bridgnorth, Shrops. The house where the great Thomas Telford lived in 1792 and some shopfronts. Beaman’s butchers sadly closed for good just last month, but hopefully another butcher will take it on!
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We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social
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If you enjoyed reading @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
great feature on Bulmer Brick & Tile Company in Suffolk bit.ly/4hGLjwD, join us in June on a rare visit to see the process when the Victorian Society go to Victorian Sudbury. Buy tickets for the trip here: bit.ly/4iXplGM
📷 Gentle Author
#heritage
great feature on Bulmer Brick & Tile Company in Suffolk bit.ly/4hGLjwD, join us in June on a rare visit to see the process when the Victorian Society go to Victorian Sudbury. Buy tickets for the trip here: bit.ly/4iXplGM
📷 Gentle Author
#heritage
March 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you enjoyed reading @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
great feature on Bulmer Brick & Tile Company in Suffolk bit.ly/4hGLjwD, join us in June on a rare visit to see the process when the Victorian Society go to Victorian Sudbury. Buy tickets for the trip here: bit.ly/4iXplGM
📷 Gentle Author
#heritage
great feature on Bulmer Brick & Tile Company in Suffolk bit.ly/4hGLjwD, join us in June on a rare visit to see the process when the Victorian Society go to Victorian Sudbury. Buy tickets for the trip here: bit.ly/4iXplGM
📷 Gentle Author
#heritage
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I’m sure this has been posted before, but it’s worthy of another mention - Travel in Times Campop - a historic journey planner which you can use to see how long it took to get from place to place in times gone by
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.travelintimes.org
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.travelintimes.org
Travel in times - Historic journey planner, from CAMPOP
www.travelintimes.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’m sure this has been posted before, but it’s worthy of another mention - Travel in Times Campop - a historic journey planner which you can use to see how long it took to get from place to place in times gone by
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.travelintimes.org
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.travelintimes.org
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Fantastic news!! My thoughts in today's Telegraph on the government's decision to reverse plans to destroy millions of historic wills! "Historic wills saved for the nation as plans to destroy old records are cancelled" 👇 #history #archives www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Historic wills saved for the nation as plans to destroy old records are cancelled
Government heeds uproar from historians who claimed that to digitise would be to ‘delete history’
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January 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Fantastic news!! My thoughts in today's Telegraph on the government's decision to reverse plans to destroy millions of historic wills! "Historic wills saved for the nation as plans to destroy old records are cancelled" 👇 #history #archives www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Colchester - a town with many and varied architectural highlights! Here are just a few. I was especially fascinated by the metal rings marking/commemorating the gun shots to the Siege House.
January 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Colchester - a town with many and varied architectural highlights! Here are just a few. I was especially fascinated by the metal rings marking/commemorating the gun shots to the Siege House.
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Just stumbled upon this great 1937 film showing how one used to get birth certs. Well before my time, but do remember lugging those massive index volumes off the shelves at St Catherine’s House & Family Records Centre. #Geneaology #FamilyHistory @agragenealogy.bsky.social youtu.be/Q-B8DqKNq-4?...
Somerset House (1937)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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December 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Just stumbled upon this great 1937 film showing how one used to get birth certs. Well before my time, but do remember lugging those massive index volumes off the shelves at St Catherine’s House & Family Records Centre. #Geneaology #FamilyHistory @agragenealogy.bsky.social youtu.be/Q-B8DqKNq-4?...
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On this day, 27 December, in 1932, Radio City Music Hall was completed as part of the larger development of Rockefeller Center. We’re sometimes asked if the Isokon is art deco (it’s not). Radio City Music Hall is, however, an excellent example of art deco.
www.nypap.org/preservation...
www.nypap.org/preservation...
December 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
On this day, 27 December, in 1932, Radio City Music Hall was completed as part of the larger development of Rockefeller Center. We’re sometimes asked if the Isokon is art deco (it’s not). Radio City Music Hall is, however, an excellent example of art deco.
www.nypap.org/preservation...
www.nypap.org/preservation...
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Are you in the East Midlands? Make your nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025! Email us about your local threatened and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914.
Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#EastMidlands
Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#EastMidlands
December 8, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Are you in the East Midlands? Make your nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025! Email us about your local threatened and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914.
Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#EastMidlands
Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#EastMidlands
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Do you live in YORKSHIRE and HUMBERSIDE? We need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#Yorkshire
#Yorkshire
December 8, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Do you live in YORKSHIRE and HUMBERSIDE? We need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Here's how bit.ly/3YzRjk
#Yorkshire
#Yorkshire
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The History of Arndale Centres (classic British shopping centres!). A new post (illustrated with a few of my rather ropey old photos):
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A History of Arndale Centres
Arndale Shopping Centres were amongst the best-known post-war developments in Britain, symbolic of progress and economic rebirth. However, they were routinely scorned by architectural critics and d…
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December 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
The History of Arndale Centres (classic British shopping centres!). A new post (illustrated with a few of my rather ropey old photos):
buildingourpast.com/2024/12/05/a...
buildingourpast.com/2024/12/05/a...
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My little book about books (and libraries). Now free to read until 31 Dec www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Libraries and the Academic Book
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Libraries and the Academic Book
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December 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
My little book about books (and libraries). Now free to read until 31 Dec www.cambridge.org/core/element...