@AdcoakerC Thanks Tony. t’s all there, as you say, and I see the wreck has so far resisted the recent promise to remove its already much pruned masts. Didn’t somebody recently get paid a million or two to try that?
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Patrick Wright
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Patrick Wright
@tattery
Author of The Sea View Has Me Again, The Village That Died For England etc. Now gone from Xitter.
Fulbourn, England Katılım Kasım 2010
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@readalanread Should have known. You’ve always been good at finding space!
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@tattery Thank you for asking. And following. The Department is thriving (missing you!) and our move to Bush House is immanent. Hugely welcome given its legacy. But by remaining at the heart of ‘Theatreland’, space is understandably at a premium and the archive is extensive. Arles bound.
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Packing my Library. In a reversal of my favourite essay by Walter Benjamin images from the Performance Foundation Archive before it moves: “a relationship to objects not emphasising their functional, utilitarian value but studied and loved as the scene, the stage of their fate”.
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@AdcoakerC I look forward to it. I’ve still got unfinished business in Sheerness but presently immersed in a different excavation…
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I devoured your big book in <24h when it came out!
I wonder when will the complete ‘Island Stories’ will appear?
Nobody could see both sides of a conflict like Uwe Johnson. Or reveal the consequences for everybody. Wish he had been with us for longer.
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I don’t think so but thanks for putting it in the window, Jarndyce(the last remaining ‘19th century bookshop’) on Great Russell Street.
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Brilliant Fado musicians, heard at Maria de Mouraria - Casa de Fados, Lisbon 17 October 24
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@fugitiveink I reckon that would exclude nearly everything these days…
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I'm amused to see that our best local independent bookshop — the Holt Bookshop — apparently won't stock anything that isn't professionally edited. I don't care, particularly, but this doesn't sound like a great tactic for encouraging genuinely local voices.
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@adrianpgibson So intricate and much of it constructed out of wood from old wine boxes too…
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By adding hand carved wood panels, painting, fabrics and other decorative pieces it is now preserved as he left it when he passed away. Only two thousand people are able to visit each year so if you get the opportunity to go I urge you to do so. It’s truly amazing 🤎 2/3
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What an absolute honour to get to visit the National Trust’s 575 Wandsworth Road yesterday with Lambeth Tour Guides Association. This very special house was the home of Kenyan born Khadambi Asalache who over the 19 years he lived there turned it into a unique work of art. 1/3
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This speech has made me cry, literally.
Gabriel Oguda@gabrieloguda
Here is the withering speech by Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka that could boil my grandmother's yams.
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@OSaumarezSmith Here’s one that still exists in Sassnitz, on the Baltic island of Rűgen, built at the very end of the GDR.
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Sweet Deco bandstand in Swindon with a corrugated asbestos roof, by J.B.L. Thompson, c. 1936 - but has disappeared totally
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Delighted to have known Mr. Rhodes since the early seventies, when we shared a house, 5 St Radigund Street, and a thousand conversations in Canterbury…
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‘Theory 4. All Things Must Pass’ triptych by Peter Rhodes, at The Pie Factory, Margate, until July 22nd.
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As a senior participant in this truly heroic adventure, I would like to say how amazing it was to work with a publisher filled with a sense of possibility rather than its defeated opposite. I look forward to seeing Tariq, Luke, Johnny and everyone else find new ways of thriving.
Repeater Books@RepeaterBooks
A leaving statement from Tariq Goddard, founding editor and publisher of Repeater and Zer0 Books (1/4)
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@BrynleyHeaven Instantly recognisable - for one who last saw you in the Nineties
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Have you seen this, @tattery ?
National Spitfire Project@spirit_spitfire
The National Spitfire Monument is a new, national tribute to that will honour our past and inspire our future. A stainless steel Spitfire, one and a half times the size of the original aircraft, will appear to be rising up from its birthplace, taking flight over Southampton water
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Delighted to have been awarded one of these to write a History of the Medical Humanities, a strangely neglected topic in the UK.
The British Academy@BritishAcademy_
The British Academy is pleased to announce funding for 11 recipients of the BA/@LeverhulmeTrust Senior Research Fellowships cohort. 10 awards were funded by the Leverhulme Trust while an eleventh was provided by the Thank-Offering to Britain Fellowship. thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…
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Universities? The Humanities? Perhaps we should start again, working our way up from the 19th century kindergarten in any broken-down city that might be at hand. Thanks for the larger thought, Lawrence Weschler. March 14, 2024 : Issue #63 open.substack.com/pub/lawrencewe…
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I remain baffled how France can build *social housing* like this, which feels better than even luxury housing in so many other places...
Designed by SOA Architectes, in Paris
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