Chris Rycroft
@chrisrycroft.bsky.social
Researching the life and work of Philip Webb (1831-1915)
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Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
Very impressed with the Picton Garden (Colwall), its collection of Michaelmas daisies on top form at the moment
October 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Very impressed with the Picton Garden (Colwall), its collection of Michaelmas daisies on top form at the moment
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1/ My latest blog post looks at the Gidea Park House and Cottage Exhibition of 1911, showcasing ‘the infinite variety that will be possible in house building when skilful architects are employed to build the new town-planned suburbs of London’ ....
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Gidea Park: the House and Cottage Exhibition, 1911
Romford might be an unsung part of London but in Gidea Park, as host of two housing exhibitions – a competition in 1911 founding what was then known as Romford Garden Suburb and a Modern Homes Exhi…
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October 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
1/ My latest blog post looks at the Gidea Park House and Cottage Exhibition of 1911, showcasing ‘the infinite variety that will be possible in house building when skilful architects are employed to build the new town-planned suburbs of London’ ....
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/g...
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/g...
This item by Mehdi Zannad from the latest Drawing Matters, providing a method for sketching an urban scene (including time lapse of how it works in practice) is rather wonderful drawingmatter.org/urban-landsc...
Urban Landscape
The following method for drawing urban landscapes was sent to us by Mehdi Zannad after his recent visit to Drawing Matter. It was first published by éditions Parenthèses in Topo-graphies in 2020. The ...
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August 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This item by Mehdi Zannad from the latest Drawing Matters, providing a method for sketching an urban scene (including time lapse of how it works in practice) is rather wonderful drawingmatter.org/urban-landsc...
Fascinating article on Gavin Stamp by Joshua Mardell in British Art Studies: main--britishartstudies-26.netlify.app/issues/26/ga...
British Art Studies
*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.
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May 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Fascinating article on Gavin Stamp by Joshua Mardell in British Art Studies: main--britishartstudies-26.netlify.app/issues/26/ga...
Glorious weather for our annual bluebell walk
April 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Glorious weather for our annual bluebell walk
Delicious magnolias at Batsford
April 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Delicious magnolias at Batsford
Fascinating essay by Mary Mitchell on an experimental AA new town planning project from the 1930s and its continuing resonance drawingmatter.org/tomorrow-tow...
Elizabeth Chesterton & Tomorrow Town: A New Town Thesis by Architectural Association Students
In 1999, I was an undergraduate at Edinburgh University studying Architectural History when I undertook a work placement at the university archives. Here I was asked to help organise an uncatalogued c...
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April 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Fascinating essay by Mary Mitchell on an experimental AA new town planning project from the 1930s and its continuing resonance drawingmatter.org/tomorrow-tow...
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That is the spirit.
Bravo WilmerHale.
Bravo WilmerHale.
This is how it's done.
A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge.
This is how to guard the rule of law.
A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge.
This is how to guard the rule of law.
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
That is the spirit.
Bravo WilmerHale.
Bravo WilmerHale.
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The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees
micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/
micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
micro.green-park.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees
micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/
micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/
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Brilliant front page
February 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Brilliant front page
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Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
February 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
www.english.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
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A proposal to deregulate the disposal process for church buildings is on the Church of England Synod agenda this week. Here is our joint statement on the new Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations to be debated at this week's #GeneralSynod.
bit.ly/4hUurmu
bit.ly/4hUurmu
February 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A proposal to deregulate the disposal process for church buildings is on the Church of England Synod agenda this week. Here is our joint statement on the new Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations to be debated at this week's #GeneralSynod.
bit.ly/4hUurmu
bit.ly/4hUurmu
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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
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VICTORY! In late 2023 I (among many others) wrote about the reckless plan to destroy the historic probate records after digitising them. My column from the time is here inews.co.uk/opinion/gove... Today the government has confirmed it has had a rethink and dropped the plan. Good sense prevails
January 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
VICTORY! In late 2023 I (among many others) wrote about the reckless plan to destroy the historic probate records after digitising them. My column from the time is here inews.co.uk/opinion/gove... Today the government has confirmed it has had a rethink and dropped the plan. Good sense prevails
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Astonishing 55 years of diaries from 1839 over 5,000 pages by John White of Parsonage Farm, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire being digitised & some will go on display at The Three Rivers Museum, Rickmansworth 👇
Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse
The 5,000-page diaries are a
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January 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Astonishing 55 years of diaries from 1839 over 5,000 pages by John White of Parsonage Farm, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire being digitised & some will go on display at The Three Rivers Museum, Rickmansworth 👇
Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Above Chastleton this afternoon
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Above Chastleton this afternoon
A bijou Philip Webb property on the market for c.£500,000 - 2 bed central section with clocktower of “Goldenfields” built for Mrs Mary Anne Robb in Liphook, near Haslemere, Surrey (d.1890-1; e.1891-2)
www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...
www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...
January 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A bijou Philip Webb property on the market for c.£500,000 - 2 bed central section with clocktower of “Goldenfields” built for Mrs Mary Anne Robb in Liphook, near Haslemere, Surrey (d.1890-1; e.1891-2)
www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...
www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...
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Seeing the King’s speech from the Fitzrovia chapel reminded me on when they saved it after demolishing the old Middlesex Hospital
December 25, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Seeing the King’s speech from the Fitzrovia chapel reminded me on when they saved it after demolishing the old Middlesex Hospital
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Day 24 of my Advent calendar. Happy Christmas to you all from me and my tiny garden angel
December 24, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Day 24 of my Advent calendar. Happy Christmas to you all from me and my tiny garden angel
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Day 21 of my Advent calendar. Rejoice! The shortest day is over and before you know it the freshly-clothed oaks will be ankle deep in cow parsley.
December 21, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Day 21 of my Advent calendar. Rejoice! The shortest day is over and before you know it the freshly-clothed oaks will be ankle deep in cow parsley.