Kristof Fatsar
@fatsar.bsky.social
Regional Landscape Architect for the North at Historic England, formerly Professor of Landscape History and Conservation. No politics, I've had enough of it, thanks.
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Published this week, 'The Early Neolithic of northern Europe' is fully open access, meaning the new book can be read online or downloaded at no cost.
#archaeology #neolithic #prehistory
#archaeology #neolithic #prehistory
‘The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe’ – new book available for free
Published this week, 'The Early Neolithic of northern Europe' is fully open access, meaning the new book can be read online or downloaded at no cost.
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Published this week, 'The Early Neolithic of northern Europe' is fully open access, meaning the new book can be read online or downloaded at no cost.
#archaeology #neolithic #prehistory
#archaeology #neolithic #prehistory
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Cardiff Coal Exchange, on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, is an enormously significant building - one of the most important in Wales. Here the world’s coal prices were determined, and the first £1 million cheque was signed in 1904. This story has appeared in relation to the building. 🧵 #Wales
Developer plans to break the law to save part of Wales' heritage
Martin Shipton The owner of one of Wales’ most iconic buildings says he is likely to find himself having to commit a criminal offence in order to save it. Ashley Govier’s company Eden Grove Developmen...
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January 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Cardiff Coal Exchange, on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, is an enormously significant building - one of the most important in Wales. Here the world’s coal prices were determined, and the first £1 million cheque was signed in 1904. This story has appeared in relation to the building. 🧵 #Wales
The grave of the famed Victorian landscape designer and author Edward Kemp in Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead. He was also the first superintendent of Birkenhead Park, the first modern municipal park in England.
#landscapehistory
#landscapearchitecture
#publicparks
#landscapehistory
#landscapearchitecture
#publicparks
January 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The grave of the famed Victorian landscape designer and author Edward Kemp in Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead. He was also the first superintendent of Birkenhead Park, the first modern municipal park in England.
#landscapehistory
#landscapearchitecture
#publicparks
#landscapehistory
#landscapearchitecture
#publicparks
The last of my snowy site visits was to Flaybrick Memorial Gardens in the Wirral. A Grade II* Registered Park and Garden, also a Heritage at Risk site, whose designer, Edward Kemp (1817-1891), is also buried here.
#landscapehistory
#landscapehistory
January 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The last of my snowy site visits was to Flaybrick Memorial Gardens in the Wirral. A Grade II* Registered Park and Garden, also a Heritage at Risk site, whose designer, Edward Kemp (1817-1891), is also buried here.
#landscapehistory
#landscapehistory
The longest and most rewarding of my site visits in the snow last week was at Bramham Park. In glorious weather, firm snow, and with generous hosting by the owner, it was a truly unforgettable experience in one of England's finest historic designed landscapes.
#landscapehistory #Yorkshire
#landscapehistory #Yorkshire
January 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The longest and most rewarding of my site visits in the snow last week was at Bramham Park. In glorious weather, firm snow, and with generous hosting by the owner, it was a truly unforgettable experience in one of England's finest historic designed landscapes.
#landscapehistory #Yorkshire
#landscapehistory #Yorkshire
Another site visit from last week in the snow, on the way back from Liverpool: Eastham Victorian Pleasure Gardens, largely forgotten and mostly overgrown. Despite all, the place survived remarkably well, although needs substantial clearing to be fully appreciated.
#landscapehistory
#landscapehistory
January 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Another site visit from last week in the snow, on the way back from Liverpool: Eastham Victorian Pleasure Gardens, largely forgotten and mostly overgrown. Despite all, the place survived remarkably well, although needs substantial clearing to be fully appreciated.
#landscapehistory
#landscapehistory
Reminiscing about last week's snowy site visits on behalf of Historic England. The first of them was to St James's Gardens, adjacent to Liverpool's Anglican cathedral. Heritage at risk, in large part due to the state of the retaining walls.
January 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reminiscing about last week's snowy site visits on behalf of Historic England. The first of them was to St James's Gardens, adjacent to Liverpool's Anglican cathedral. Heritage at risk, in large part due to the state of the retaining walls.
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🍿 Just finished watching Digging for Britain? Curious about what it’s like to work on digs like those featured?
Explore more behind-the-scenes with our ‘A Day in Archaeology’ blogs & vlogs from archaeologists across the UK 👉 https://buff.ly/3rBCwrE
What was your favourite site from tonight? 🏺
Explore more behind-the-scenes with our ‘A Day in Archaeology’ blogs & vlogs from archaeologists across the UK 👉 https://buff.ly/3rBCwrE
What was your favourite site from tonight? 🏺
A Day in Archaeology
For one day a year, delve into the life of real life Archaeologists and see what they get up to.
buff.ly
January 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🍿 Just finished watching Digging for Britain? Curious about what it’s like to work on digs like those featured?
Explore more behind-the-scenes with our ‘A Day in Archaeology’ blogs & vlogs from archaeologists across the UK 👉 https://buff.ly/3rBCwrE
What was your favourite site from tonight? 🏺
Explore more behind-the-scenes with our ‘A Day in Archaeology’ blogs & vlogs from archaeologists across the UK 👉 https://buff.ly/3rBCwrE
What was your favourite site from tonight? 🏺
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Granny pine with ‘fir candle’ scars at Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms 🏴
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
January 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Granny pine with ‘fir candle’ scars at Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms 🏴
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
December 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
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For those among us nerdy enough, please enjoy these images of the plain plaster at Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire. Interesting to see various methods, the use of additional materials and the layers 🤩 🤓
December 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
For those among us nerdy enough, please enjoy these images of the plain plaster at Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire. Interesting to see various methods, the use of additional materials and the layers 🤩 🤓
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A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
December 17, 2024 at 10:42 PM
A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
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A tangible & personal link to the past with this really beautiful historic inscription on one of the portico columns of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire 🤩❤️
Translation: “This is the place, which, if I were to be bold,
I would not be afraid to call high heaven’s Palatine.”
Translation: “This is the place, which, if I were to be bold,
I would not be afraid to call high heaven’s Palatine.”
December 17, 2024 at 3:11 PM
A tangible & personal link to the past with this really beautiful historic inscription on one of the portico columns of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire 🤩❤️
Translation: “This is the place, which, if I were to be bold,
I would not be afraid to call high heaven’s Palatine.”
Translation: “This is the place, which, if I were to be bold,
I would not be afraid to call high heaven’s Palatine.”
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If you're interested in the 'protected views' of St Paul's Cathedral mentioned in the last post, this is an excellent guide:
www.richardgower.com/blog/londonp...
www.richardgower.com/blog/londonp...
London's Protected Views — Richard Gower
London’s Protected Views are 13 sightlines of either St Paul’s Cathedral or Westminster Palace that are protected in planning law. Essentially it means that new buildings can’t obstruct these views. I...
www.richardgower.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
If you're interested in the 'protected views' of St Paul's Cathedral mentioned in the last post, this is an excellent guide:
www.richardgower.com/blog/londonp...
www.richardgower.com/blog/londonp...
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Forboding illustration of the now-lost menhir of Le Quesnel, Jersey.
It stood over four metres tall, on the La Moye headland, Jersey. It may have been part of a larger monument. Sadly it was toppled and destroyed in the late 19th century by stone quarters. #StandingStoneSunday #JerseyCI 🇯🇪
It stood over four metres tall, on the La Moye headland, Jersey. It may have been part of a larger monument. Sadly it was toppled and destroyed in the late 19th century by stone quarters. #StandingStoneSunday #JerseyCI 🇯🇪
December 8, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Forboding illustration of the now-lost menhir of Le Quesnel, Jersey.
It stood over four metres tall, on the La Moye headland, Jersey. It may have been part of a larger monument. Sadly it was toppled and destroyed in the late 19th century by stone quarters. #StandingStoneSunday #JerseyCI 🇯🇪
It stood over four metres tall, on the La Moye headland, Jersey. It may have been part of a larger monument. Sadly it was toppled and destroyed in the late 19th century by stone quarters. #StandingStoneSunday #JerseyCI 🇯🇪
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XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.1/2
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
December 7, 2024 at 7:37 AM
XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.1/2
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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There were once plans in Dublin to remove the Grand Canal & replace it with a motorway.
The city has been in thrall to cars for generations, witness Camden Street/Wexford Street today, lively, thriving, a street for a city community
Compare it with Cork Street, with its deadening multi-lane road
The city has been in thrall to cars for generations, witness Camden Street/Wexford Street today, lively, thriving, a street for a city community
Compare it with Cork Street, with its deadening multi-lane road
A photo I took on my first visit to Utrecht in 2015 and the same location in 2022 after local politicians rectified the mistake their predecessors made in the 1960s, when a canal was removed for a motorway through the city centre, restoring the heart of the city to its former beauty
December 7, 2024 at 7:31 AM
There were once plans in Dublin to remove the Grand Canal & replace it with a motorway.
The city has been in thrall to cars for generations, witness Camden Street/Wexford Street today, lively, thriving, a street for a city community
Compare it with Cork Street, with its deadening multi-lane road
The city has been in thrall to cars for generations, witness Camden Street/Wexford Street today, lively, thriving, a street for a city community
Compare it with Cork Street, with its deadening multi-lane road
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North East Top Ten Endangered Building 2024 is the Jesmond Dene Banqueting Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne Grade II, John Dobson, extended to provide a gatehouse, reception hall and display room, Norman Shaw, 1860-62 and 1869/70.77 Photo: Guy Newton #northeastengland
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 PM
North East Top Ten Endangered Building 2024 is the Jesmond Dene Banqueting Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne Grade II, John Dobson, extended to provide a gatehouse, reception hall and display room, Norman Shaw, 1860-62 and 1869/70.77 Photo: Guy Newton #northeastengland
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You can read my review of Netflix's BLACK DOVES in today's Boston Globe! A highly entertaining Christmas spy thriller starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/a...
‘Black Doves’ is a tremendously fun spy thriller - The Boston Globe
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw star as a pair of spies trying to solve a murder.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:47 PM
You can read my review of Netflix's BLACK DOVES in today's Boston Globe! A highly entertaining Christmas spy thriller starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/a...
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This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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Two excellent websites for old postcards of Modernist architecture.
postalesinventadas.com
retrogeographie.tumblr.com
postalesinventadas.com
retrogeographie.tumblr.com
August 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Two excellent websites for old postcards of Modernist architecture.
postalesinventadas.com
retrogeographie.tumblr.com
postalesinventadas.com
retrogeographie.tumblr.com
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Me stating the obvious in the Spectator. Nice article more broadly, too.
November 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Me stating the obvious in the Spectator. Nice article more broadly, too.
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A 29 year old Sterling prize winning building being demolished
I bet if you remove VAT on refurbishment (like new buildings have) it would be entirely feasible to save it
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/environ...
I bet if you remove VAT on refurbishment (like new buildings have) it would be entirely feasible to save it
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/environ...
November 26, 2024 at 8:25 AM
A 29 year old Sterling prize winning building being demolished
I bet if you remove VAT on refurbishment (like new buildings have) it would be entirely feasible to save it
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/environ...
I bet if you remove VAT on refurbishment (like new buildings have) it would be entirely feasible to save it
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/environ...
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This is the Dolmen des Follets, a prehistoric burial monument in Brittany. It is named after the follets, or goblins, that are said to reside there, carefully guarding a priceless treasure that is hidden below. Humans who have attempted to uncover it have allegedly paid with their lives #TombTuesday
November 26, 2024 at 8:53 AM
This is the Dolmen des Follets, a prehistoric burial monument in Brittany. It is named after the follets, or goblins, that are said to reside there, carefully guarding a priceless treasure that is hidden below. Humans who have attempted to uncover it have allegedly paid with their lives #TombTuesday