Researches cities, property, economics. Professional if accentless Brummie. DFL in Lewes. Beer & Music Snob. History buff & wannabe linguist. Views my own.
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Between 1934 and 1939 tens of thousands of upmarket apartments were built for rent in Britain’s cities : a phenomenon that is almost completely written out of history. An absolutely fascinating piece to write and research
27 Feb 2024
NEW: How Art Deco conquered 1930s Britain, and led to tens of thousands of apartments being built that are still iconic today.
By @JonNeale for Works in Progress.
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There’s an argument that this Birmingham house is where the road to both Hiroshima and the Cold War began. My latest for the Dispatch - birminghamdispatch.co.uk/how…
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The Scottish crown had been attacking and suppressing Gaelic culture and the clans for generations before the act of union, culminating in the 1609 statutes of Iona.
Most Scots then would have regarded clan symbols as those of outlaws and thieves and their language “wild Irish”
Jun 13
In 1746 the British gov banned the wearing of kilts and tartan to suppress our culture
1st offence - 6months in jail
2nd offence - 7 years of slavery
The fact we can wear our family tartan in our land & across the world is something we take great pride in
🏴 ALBA GU BRÀTH 🏴
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Jun 13
So 38 Calthorpe Rd in leafy Edgbaston is where armageddon started. I knew about Frisch-Peierls memo but not that they shared this house (now medical centre) or that Klaus Fuchs was the lodger. Their breakthrough was realising you'd only need a few pounds of U235 to make a weapon
The road to Los Alamos, Hiroshima and the Cold War began in Birmingham : my latest for the Dispatch birminghamdispatch.co.uk/how…
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The road to Los Alamos, Hiroshima and the Cold War began in Birmingham : my latest for the Dispatch birminghamdispatch.co.uk/how…
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The road to Los Alamos, Hiroshima and the Cold War began in Birmingham : my latest for the Dispatch birminghamdispatch.co.uk/how…
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Seeing Northern Ireland is on the agenda, this is the Scottish historian Tom Devine:
“Before the Ulster Plantation,the Scottish crown had already developed both theory and practice in internal colonialism [and] explicit assumptions about the 'barbaric' inferiority of the Gaels”
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More in favour of the Cotswolds being the midlands playground - Thomas Sharp here
this area should have a population of 100 million, with the Pennines kept as a massive internal park
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Admitting to not liking football is, for a British politician, like admitting to being an atheist for an American one
Jun 6
Whatever changes in No 10 race, we’re still gonna be subjected to performative footballing PMs..,, is there anyone in the race who could chat about yoga or ballet or other spare-time pursuit for variety?
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Beeching gets all the stick of course, but the real villain was Ernest Marples.
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This is all very true but having just got on a cycling tour in France, Belgium and Germany:
- French regional trains are awful. Really infrequent and unreliable. They have a baffling bike booking system.
- TGVs now prohibit bikes
- In both B and G which trains do and don’t….
May 30
100,000 people in Delft. A 4 platform through station with local heritage design details, bus and tram interchange, several thousand space cycle parking garage with subtly integrated entrance/exit and car parking somewhere but I can’t find where.
The UK is a third world country
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