Ed Brookes
@ed-brookes.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interested in - Urban/Cultural Geography, Participatory Research, Water, Climate adaptation, Doors, Architecture
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2/ First up @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I have written an introduction outlining what participatory historical geography is/could be and why it's important. Read more here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
2/ First up @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I have written an introduction outlining what participatory historical geography is/could be and why it's important. Read more here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
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Yes it was 16-odd years ago, and he's grown politically since then, but it exposes his Blairite roots. RHG was an icon; a brutalist manifesto that deserved to be preserved and cherished, not fed to the gentrifying wolves (I wrote about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) /3
Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Yes it was 16-odd years ago, and he's grown politically since then, but it exposes his Blairite roots. RHG was an icon; a brutalist manifesto that deserved to be preserved and cherished, not fed to the gentrifying wolves (I wrote about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) /3
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He ignored appeals and listening only to the private real estate developers instead of the community groups. There were plenty of options available and he chose the most Thatcherite one possible, you can read work by @ed-brookes.bsky.social on the process here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... /2
Planning, Art, and Aesthetics
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September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
He ignored appeals and listening only to the private real estate developers instead of the community groups. There were plenty of options available and he chose the most Thatcherite one possible, you can read work by @ed-brookes.bsky.social on the process here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... /2
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Andy Burnham, when he was culture secretary back in 2009, refused listing for Robin Hood Gardens in London, affectively demolishing it. RHG was one the finest example of brutalist architecture and a really important social housing block, and he went all Alice Coleman on it. /1
Secretary of State rejects Robin Hood Gardens appeal
The culture secretary Andy Burnham has sealed the fate of Robin Hood Gardens after rejecting an appeal from the Twentieth Century Society against the government’s decision not to list the ‘Brutalist’ ...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Andy Burnham, when he was culture secretary back in 2009, refused listing for Robin Hood Gardens in London, affectively demolishing it. RHG was one the finest example of brutalist architecture and a really important social housing block, and he went all Alice Coleman on it. /1
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Transphobe arrested: "we need to look at the laws, clearly something's not right"
80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"
80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"
Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Transphobe arrested: "we need to look at the laws, clearly something's not right"
80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"
80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"
I don't really understand the weird binary that the BBC #r4today and other media seem to be trying to create between books and audio books. Can't we just enjoy both without pitting one against the other?
June 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I don't really understand the weird binary that the BBC #r4today and other media seem to be trying to create between books and audio books. Can't we just enjoy both without pitting one against the other?
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Join us for a unique opera experience! Funded by the AHRC for the #FromNoahToNow project @uniofhull.bsky.social, this *free* event aims to raise awareness about flooding.
Book for:
Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz
Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36
#ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools
Book for:
Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz
Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36
#ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools
March 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Join us for a unique opera experience! Funded by the AHRC for the #FromNoahToNow project @uniofhull.bsky.social, this *free* event aims to raise awareness about flooding.
Book for:
Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz
Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36
#ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools
Book for:
Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz
Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36
#ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools
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In Gaza we witnessed material scholasticide with the physical destruction of universities and people.
In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords.
In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.
In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords.
In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.
March 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In Gaza we witnessed material scholasticide with the physical destruction of universities and people.
In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords.
In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.
In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords.
In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.
Check out this short piece by Stewart Mottram, Lisa Coates and I which talks about our work on the Noah to Now project at the University of Hull and using Opera to explore flooding with young people 🎭
tinyurl.com/7u3b2485
#arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow
tinyurl.com/7u3b2485
#arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow
Singing in the rain foxes, ferrets and a flood opera
Young voices set to join performances of Britten
tinyurl.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Check out this short piece by Stewart Mottram, Lisa Coates and I which talks about our work on the Noah to Now project at the University of Hull and using Opera to explore flooding with young people 🎭
tinyurl.com/7u3b2485
#arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow
tinyurl.com/7u3b2485
#arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow
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New paper in Area:
'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New paper in Area:
'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
Car park operators can get in the bin
Rentier capital at its absolute worst
BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rentier capital at its absolute worst
BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule
Rosey Hudson paid for parking each time, but is being taken to court for £1,906 by Excel Parking.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Car park operators can get in the bin
Rentier capital at its absolute worst
BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rentier capital at its absolute worst
BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thrilled to see 2 more articles online from the Area special section on participatory historical geography I am editing with @edbrooks.bsky.social Congrats @hannahworthen.bsky.social (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & Lucy Thompson (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Thrilled to see 2 more articles online from the Area special section on participatory historical geography I am editing with @edbrooks.bsky.social Congrats @hannahworthen.bsky.social (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & Lucy Thompson (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
I'm excited to be involved with this year's Flood Awareness Centre in Hull, in partnership with Living with Water 🌊 Come visit for:
Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories
Free postcards & info on our projects
Free events & workshops all week
More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2
Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories
Free postcards & info on our projects
Free events & workshops all week
More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2
November 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM
I'm excited to be involved with this year's Flood Awareness Centre in Hull, in partnership with Living with Water 🌊 Come visit for:
Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories
Free postcards & info on our projects
Free events & workshops all week
More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2
Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories
Free postcards & info on our projects
Free events & workshops all week
More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2
Waking up to -1° and then 15° in the space of 48 hours is genuinely insane. Is environmental whiplash a thing?
November 24, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Waking up to -1° and then 15° in the space of 48 hours is genuinely insane. Is environmental whiplash a thing?
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First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ....
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...
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We're co-hosting our first pop-up Flood Awareness Centre with Living with Water partners in Hull city centre next week.
Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov
Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...
Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov
Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...
November 22, 2024 at 10:41 AM
We're co-hosting our first pop-up Flood Awareness Centre with Living with Water partners in Hull city centre next week.
Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov
Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...
Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov
Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...
It was really great to attend the 2024 Centre for Water Cultures Conference today. With some excellent panels and exciting research being done! @universityofhull.bsky.social
#centreforwatercultures #water
#centreforwatercultures #water
November 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
It was really great to attend the 2024 Centre for Water Cultures Conference today. With some excellent panels and exciting research being done! @universityofhull.bsky.social
#centreforwatercultures #water
#centreforwatercultures #water
Late to the party, but finally made the jump from X/Twitter/Elon's hellscape. Here's a picture of my cat, Dave.
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Late to the party, but finally made the jump from X/Twitter/Elon's hellscape. Here's a picture of my cat, Dave.