I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s event at the Architecture Foundation where we spoke and listened to/about oral history at the Art Workers Guild - a screen-free conversation about conversation & the practising of history. Thank you Mary Chamberlain & Jerry White, and my cohost Cristina Monteiro.

Found John I. Williams’ biography of CLR James both inspiring and enlightening. Like all good biographies it feels like a study of an era and a culture as much as of a single human. And who knew that much of The Black Jacobins was written in Portslade of all places?

My most recent short essay on the Spring Line is about the urgent need to conserve buildings which speak of Britain's history of self-build and plotland development.
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Why we should urgently be acting to protect, conserve and documenting our remaining plotland dwellings and their close cousins open.substack.com/pub/knightda...

Sutton Hall (Isfield) Lock, 2024.

Part of the c18-19 Sussex Ouse Navigation, which took boats north of Lewes from 1812 through to 1868. This lock was restored in the early 2000s by the Sussex Ouse Restoration Trust.