Nick Higham
@highamnews.bsky.social
Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Toll bridge cat, Whitchurch-on-Thames…
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Toll bridge cat, Whitchurch-on-Thames…
The 458m Bruce Tunnel at the summit of the Kennet & Avon Canal. It’s down hill from here all the way to Bath and Bristol. The commemorative plaque was recarved in 2003 by local stonemason John Lloyd, whose ancestor Benjamin Lloyd carved the original in 1810…
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The 458m Bruce Tunnel at the summit of the Kennet & Avon Canal. It’s down hill from here all the way to Bath and Bristol. The commemorative plaque was recarved in 2003 by local stonemason John Lloyd, whose ancestor Benjamin Lloyd carved the original in 1810…
Lovely day for a canal walk…
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Lovely day for a canal walk…
Spectacular ancient plumbing klaxon: “A boiler like this gave residents and workers something incredibly rare in the ancient world: reliable hot water on demand…”
Absolutely incredible discovery
Roman water boiler from 1st Century BC, was found at Villa della Pisanella in Boscoreale Italy 🇮🇹. It’s one of the rarest examples to survive with its entire system of pipes and fittings intact.....
What you are looking at here is not just a relic but evidence of
Roman water boiler from 1st Century BC, was found at Villa della Pisanella in Boscoreale Italy 🇮🇹. It’s one of the rarest examples to survive with its entire system of pipes and fittings intact.....
What you are looking at here is not just a relic but evidence of
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Spectacular ancient plumbing klaxon: “A boiler like this gave residents and workers something incredibly rare in the ancient world: reliable hot water on demand…”
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. William Orpen, The Wash House. Orpen understood the work involved in laundry, the fatigue, the monotony…
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. William Orpen, The Wash House. Orpen understood the work involved in laundry, the fatigue, the monotony…
“A rattling good yarn” and “a lively and judicious study” — a splendid review of Mavericks by Anna Reid in The Literary Review…
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Anna Reid - Mission Impossible
Anna Reid: Mission Impossible - Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“A rattling good yarn” and “a lively and judicious study” — a splendid review of Mavericks by Anna Reid in The Literary Review…
literaryreview.co.uk/mission-impo...
literaryreview.co.uk/mission-impo...
Great news. Mavericks is now available in India. Appropriate, since several of the characters were Indian imperialists. And if things had panned out differently Persia and Transcaspia might have ended up as part of Britain's Indian empire @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/in/mavericks...
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Great news. Mavericks is now available in India. Appropriate, since several of the characters were Indian imperialists. And if things had panned out differently Persia and Transcaspia might have ended up as part of Britain's Indian empire @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/in/mavericks...
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Rita M Sjöholm. Housing Facades in Napoli ~ Giorgio Sommer, 1878. Sommer (1834-1914) was a German-born photographer based in Naples from 1856 and one of Italy’s leading photographers…
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Rita M Sjöholm. Housing Facades in Napoli ~ Giorgio Sommer, 1878. Sommer (1834-1914) was a German-born photographer based in Naples from 1856 and one of Italy’s leading photographers…
Excellent news from New River Head… qbcentre.org.uk
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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November 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excellent news from New River Head… qbcentre.org.uk
Agatha Christie’s holiday home, Greenway above the River Dart in Devon, now NT. they have a case full of her signed first editions. Except that one is not actually a first edition…
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Agatha Christie’s holiday home, Greenway above the River Dart in Devon, now NT. they have a case full of her signed first editions. Except that one is not actually a first edition…
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
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A couple of old Bela Krajina houses (with just a bit of laundry for @highamnews.bsky.social):
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A couple of old Bela Krajina houses (with just a bit of laundry for @highamnews.bsky.social):
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. The Laundress - 1858, Francisco Laso (1823-1869), Peruvian artist and writer…
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. The Laundress - 1858, Francisco Laso (1823-1869), Peruvian artist and writer…
The oddly named Green in Bishopsteignton, Devon, where Margaret (‘Daisy’) Keyworth grew up. 17thC, heavily remodelled in the 1920s and “rather eccentric” (Historic England). Daisy wed Lionel ‘Stalky’ Dunsterville, one of five mavericks featured in my new book. Pix via Wikitree…
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The oddly named Green in Bishopsteignton, Devon, where Margaret (‘Daisy’) Keyworth grew up. 17thC, heavily remodelled in the 1920s and “rather eccentric” (Historic England). Daisy wed Lionel ‘Stalky’ Dunsterville, one of five mavericks featured in my new book. Pix via Wikitree…
Art of Laundry. Via @blogexhibitions on Ex-Twitter. Woman Running to Take in the Clothes during a Summer Shower, by Suzuki Harunobu, 1765…
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Art of Laundry. Via @blogexhibitions on Ex-Twitter. Woman Running to Take in the Clothes during a Summer Shower, by Suzuki Harunobu, 1765…
I have been coming to Abingdon for almost 40 years and walked round almost all the town, but only yesterday did I discover a) the path by the Stert Stream and b) that next to the stream is the motte of a Norman castle complete with remains of a moat…
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I have been coming to Abingdon for almost 40 years and walked round almost all the town, but only yesterday did I discover a) the path by the Stert Stream and b) that next to the stream is the motte of a Norman castle complete with remains of a moat…
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Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s
'My sin was having Parkinson's': Presenter left stranded
Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a flight.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. Hanging Out the Laundry by Jean-François
Millet…
Millet…
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. Hanging Out the Laundry by Jean-François
Millet…
Millet…
The fancy new signage on this bus is quite impressive. Unfortunately we’re on a 141 to Palmers Green N Circular Rd going up Southgate Rd N1, and it’s not half past midnight…
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The fancy new signage on this bus is quite impressive. Unfortunately we’re on a 141 to Palmers Green N Circular Rd going up Southgate Rd N1, and it’s not half past midnight…
I shall be in the bookshop at the IWM London tomorrow signing copies of Mavericks and happy to answer questions. It’s had great reviews in the Telegraph and Times and this week in the Spectator. I’d say it’s ideal Xmas present material…https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/meet-the-author-at-iwm-london
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I shall be in the bookshop at the IWM London tomorrow signing copies of Mavericks and happy to answer questions. It’s had great reviews in the Telegraph and Times and this week in the Spectator. I’d say it’s ideal Xmas present material…https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/meet-the-author-at-iwm-london
Was interviewed about Mavericks by Robert Elms on Radio London yesterday immediately after James Cheshire talking about his fabulous The Library of Lost Maps. Went straight to Foyles and bought it. We discovered both books were commissioned by Ian Marshall at Bloomsbury. What excellent taste he has…
October 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Was interviewed about Mavericks by Robert Elms on Radio London yesterday immediately after James Cheshire talking about his fabulous The Library of Lost Maps. Went straight to Foyles and bought it. We discovered both books were commissioned by Ian Marshall at Bloomsbury. What excellent taste he has…
Next Tuesday I shall be giving my lecture on the Art of Laundry at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. What do 400 years of paintings, prints and photographs of women who washed tell us about the artists who made them and the society they lived in…?
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October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Next Tuesday I shall be giving my lecture on the Art of Laundry at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. What do 400 years of paintings, prints and photographs of women who washed tell us about the artists who made them and the society they lived in…?
hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
“An action-packed tale of imperial British braggadocio, bravery and blundering on a grand scale.” A splendid review of Mavericks in the Times by Justin Marozzi, no mean writer and historian himself…
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
www.thetimes.com/article/3171...
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
www.thetimes.com/article/3171...
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
Nick Higham’s Mavericks is the rollicking tale of a motley band of Brits who took on the Turks and Bolsheviks in the Caucasus at the end of the First World War
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October 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“An action-packed tale of imperial British braggadocio, bravery and blundering on a grand scale.” A splendid review of Mavericks in the Times by Justin Marozzi, no mean writer and historian himself…
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
www.thetimes.com/article/3171...
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
www.thetimes.com/article/3171...
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. Gaston Marquet (1848-1923), Lavoir Saint Pierre, a Montmartre (The Washhouse). Perhaps Marquet’s most famous painting. She looks exhausted…
October 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. Gaston Marquet (1848-1923), Lavoir Saint Pierre, a Montmartre (The Washhouse). Perhaps Marquet’s most famous painting. She looks exhausted…