Holly Smith
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Holly Smith
@hol__smith
Historian + Research Fellow @StJohnsCam @Cambridge_Uni My book, UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN @VersoBooks, is available to buy 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
she/her Присоединился Haziran 2018
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This history of high rise Britain ‘Up in the Air’ by @hol__smith was excellent.
Fascinating architectural and social history.
So rich with stories of buildings, politics, & activism.
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Thrilled with this: it has a wonderful array of work by many of my favourite historians, which cumulatively makes the pitch for understanding modern British History through the lens of the urban. Lund Humphries have done a wonderful production job, & it is a big beautiful book.
Lund Humphries@LHArtBooks
OUT NOW! The Modern British City 1945-2000, ed. Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith, brings together architectural, urban & social historians to chart the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities btwn the end of the Second World War & the early C21.
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I’m in this week’s New Statesman with a review of Holly Smith’s brilliant history of house rise council housing in Britain, Up in the Air
newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
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@hol__smith @guardian So cool! I’m looking forwards to your C20 lecture in Nov.
Dodgy phone snap of our neighbouring high-rises with a random rainbow (no sign of rain) this morning
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Catch me in the @Guardian today, on high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britain’s extraordinary high-rise history. Consider looking up afresh! theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
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1/ Holly Smith talks about her fine new book 'Up in the Air: A History of High Rise Britain' on the 'A is for Architecture' podcast:
pca.st/episode/20dfda…
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I'm fortunate to have read an early copy of this and I recommend it highly.
Holly Smith@hol__smith
You can get 25% off my book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN at Waterstones, with the code SUMMER25 until Thursday 31 #WPreorder
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You can get 25% off my book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN at Waterstones, with the code SUMMER25 until Thursday 31 #WPreorder
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Does anybody have experience applying for the National Lottery’s Community Fund? Seeking advice & examples of successful past applications - gratefully received! Please send me a DM 📩
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@hol__smith @VersoBooks Can it be bought direct from Verso?
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My book is out on 28 October with @VersoBooks 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: waterstones.com/book/up-in-the…
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do i know anybody with a good camera who might be willing to take a picture of a newspaper page at the british library for me? needs to be 300dpi at least... imaging and scanners still down after cyberattack :( can pay! ££
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Today!! If you fancy it ☺️🏠🧱🔧
Holly Smith@hol__smith
I'm going to be speaking about my research on Britain's post-war community architecture movement on Monday 4 Nov in London, for the Voluntary Action History Seminar @VAHS_uk at the Institute of Historical Research 🛠️🧱 Do come! 👋 history.ac.uk/events/communi…
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I'm going to be speaking about my research on Britain's post-war community architecture movement on Monday 4 Nov in London, for the Voluntary Action History Seminar @VAHS_uk at the Institute of Historical Research 🛠️🧱 Do come! 👋 history.ac.uk/events/communi…
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