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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Milton Keynes to look at housing archives and to give an introduction to new towns history at a Gardens Trust conference on new town planning and landscape design, alongside excellent papers & discussion from @lucaknorr.bsky.social @jossdurnan.bsky.social @demetrius-art.bsky.social and others.

A building with reflective glass, with the sky and clouds reflected. The sky is blue and the sun is out. Some greenery is intruding on the picture on the right.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain #WomensArt

Painted of two tulip flowers on their stems with one leaf each. The blossoms are multicoloured, all against a cream background

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Very excited to host the wonderful Tim Waterman tomorrow at the Liverpool School of Architecture! His talk, ‘Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries’, is open for all and you can also look around our new home! @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture...

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Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries | School of Architecture | University of Liverpool

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I think about this post every day 🧪

Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Harley Rustad @harleyrustad.com · 01/10/2025

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” RIP Jane Goodall, 1934–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Really excited to see the program of the program of the online ‘Women Architects under State Socialism Symposium’ organised in collaboration with the @eahn2005.bsky.social Women and Gender in Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group! Have a look and register to join us! eahn.org/2025/09/wome...

Woman designer behind a drawing board working on a plan

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969 [Deep sigh] Artist: John Berry

The cover illustration and title of the book, showing a dam at the head of a large reservoir, edged by trees and surrounded by hills

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The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain @thesahgb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The SAHGB is pleased to announce that we are now an Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) accredited CPD provider. IHBC members now have the opportunity to attend our paid events at a preferential rate. @ihbc.bsky.social sahgb.org.uk/whats-on

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Architectural History Events - SAHGB

Throughout the year, the society hosts numerous hybrid seminars, face-to-face visits and study days.

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Don’t forget to submit your abstract y the 1st July!!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Land artist Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973), Great Basin Desert, Utah at sunrise #WomensArt #SummerSolstice

Photo looking through two large concrete tunnels at a golden sunrise in the still darkened and empty desert

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The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain @thesahgb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Submissions are now open for the SAHGB Dissertation Prize. The prize celebrates outstanding work in architectural history being carried out by students on taught Masters-level courses in UK universities. Entries must be made by a named academic nominator. sahgb.org.uk/dissertation-prize

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Many fossil fuel execs like to say they are full of caring for people suffering from energy poverty and just want to help. If this was true, they would support solar. Awesome video about how solar has replaced diesel for Indian salt farmers.

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How solar panels are changing the lives of India’s salt farmers

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🦖 Happy National Dinosaur Day, from Teessaurus Park!

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer

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Write, Inspired by Austen and Turner - Harewood House

Come and be inspired by Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition to write your own poems, short stories and lyrics in this creative writing workshop.

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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Liverpool School of Architecture has celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its new extension with a traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony, marking the point at which the building reaches its uppermost point. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/16/l...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

Screenshot of a Guardian news article with the headline: “Wildlife charities urge Labour to scrap ‘licence to kill nature’ in planning bill.” The subheading reads: “Conservationists say part of bill allowing developers to avoid environmental laws by paying into nature fund should be ditched.” Below, a protest photo shows handmade signs in woodland. One reads “BAT FACTS – 14 species of bat in Buckinghamshire. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.” Another says “FAT CATS KILL BATS” in bold letters. The image underscores public anger and the scale of opposition to the proposed Planning Bill.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'.

of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

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European Architectural History Network @eahn2005.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Call for Papers: Uneven Progress: women, education, institutions and careers in the built environment eahn.org/2025/05/unev...

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arqnetwork @arqnetwork.com · 01/05/2025

Articles submission: Tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special focus on educational institutions. ⏲️ two weeks left Details below if interested 👇 #women #education #builtenvironment

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Two weeks left to submit your abstracts to this special issue, that focuses on women’s work in educating future built environment professionals!

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Society of Architectural Historians of GB is searching for its next Chair. This is a great opportunity for an experienced architectural historian. The new Chair can help shape the Society and influence the field. Further information, below: www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs

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SAHGB Jobs - SAHGB

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨ This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available! Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

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IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Maxine "Blossom" Miles #aviator #engineer #socialite & #businesswoman. From family of #actors, 1920s got into #aviation, married flight instructor FG Miles & founded Miles Aircraft Ltd. She was the company draughtswoman. Women's Eng Soc member d. #OTD 6 Apr 1984 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_...

Maxine "Blossom" Miles in 1930s in polka dot dress standing beneath aircraft in arty B&W photo

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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

CFP for our panel on future impacts of extraction in the context of this year‘s AHRA conference now online: www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/?fb...

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AHRA 2025 – Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

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'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980
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Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten
environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy,
abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering,
reductions in traffic management budgets
following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and
practices.

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

One of the highlights of researching landscapes around infrastructure is the wealth of photos one can find about infrastructure and sheep!

Sheep standing in front of military domes in a snowy landscape

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢CfP: Special Issue “IFLA 75: HISTORIES AND NETWORKS: A SHIFT IN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE” guest edited by @lucaknorr.bsky.social, Imke van Hellemondt, Ulrike Krippner. Submit 200-word abstracts by ⏱️1 May 2025⏱️ to l.csepely-knorr[at]liverpool.ac.uk 📝

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It has been a great pleasure and honour to work as Education Officer with @sahgb.bsky.social for the last four years, but it is time for someone else to bring new ideas to, and develop the role further! Have a look at the job description and apply! www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs/sahgb-v...

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SAHGB Vacancy: Education and EDI Lead — SAHGB

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) is seeking a new Lead in Education and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity) to take up this role from 1 June 2025. This voluntary...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Big #RCCNews! The RCC is excited to announce our environmental writing competition "Tell the Untold!" Find out more here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... We are looking forward to your submissions! 🌱 #rccwritingcompetition #writing #envhum #creative #shortfiction

The graphic shows a colorful painted forest in the background (the image is by Juan Ruiz via Canva). The Text reads "Tell the Untold: An Environmental Writing Competition of the Rachel Carson Center. Then the blurb that is also in the description. Submission Deadline: 6 June 2025. Project: Strengthening the Environmental Humanities. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation."

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Really excited to be involved in organising the workshop ‘Women Architects under State Socialism’ together with Svava Riesto and Alla Vronskaya! Please do consider submitting an abstract by 1st July! Work in progress papers welcome! Details 👇 eahn.org/2025/03/wome...

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WOMEN ARCHITECTS UNDER STATE SOCIALISM | eahn

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Marie Schneiderová-Zubaníková #Czech civil engineer #architect. 1923 1st woman civil engineer graduate in #Czechoslovakia from Czech Technical University. 1920s structural engineer at Sears #Chicago 1930s led housing hygiene in Czechoslovakia b. #OTD 14 Mar 1900 bit.ly/3BY44qT #WomenInSTEM #WHM2025

Marie Schneiderová-Zubaníková in 1920s B&W photo

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 14/03/2025

This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis". We are inviting articles on: 🎓 the history & origins of this crisis 🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching ✊ building solidarities & collective action www.historyworkshop....

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Contribute

Interested in publishing an article or podcast with History Workshop? Find out how to contribute to our digital magazine of radical history.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Eszter Pécsi 1st #Hungarian woman engineer, designed iconic buildings in Hungary Austria & US. 1965 awarded “Best Structural Engineer of Year” for foundation method for building highrise buildings on banks of Hudson River #NewYork b. #OTD 8 Mar 1898 #IWD2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eszter_...

Eszter Pecsi in 1920s sepia head & shoulders photo. bobbed hair white collar and tie on dark dress #IWD #IWD2025
#IWD25 #Women #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For #internationalwomensday, a couple of my favourite Shirley Baker photos of girls playing -

Two girls hanging upside from a railing, by Shirley Baker, 1960s

Two girls playing around a lamppost, by Shirley Baker, 1965

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Moral Fibres @moralfibres.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is a great read about Professor Wangari Maathai, a visionary who dedicated her life to the protection of the environment and natural heritage.

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Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

On World Book Day & during Women’s History Month can it be 18 years since my & Lesley Whitworth’s germinal WATMOBS was published?! Still has lots of relevant & important conceptualisations re how we talk about gender & the built environment.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Academics, Authors, Artists in the UK here is a CRUCIAL #DigitalFriday task - the govt's consult on AI use of our hard work ends 25 Feb. It's deliberately intimidating but here's a guide to filling in the 9 crucial questions (u don't have to answer it all!) againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha...

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NO, we don’t want to give up copyright protection

Follow these tips and tricks to complete the AI consultation in no time at all (and sign our open letter!)

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 12/02/2025

Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

View down a well lit railway platform with a sleeper train alongside

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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Wholeheartedly recommend this book for everyone interested in post-war architecture, Manchester or just excellently written architectural history!

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬 Browse with a map here... player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...

A detail of a map of the UK with red pins indicating where there are films available.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Are you a postdoctoral (or equivalent) researcher in the UK within c. 10 years of your PhD? If so, the @britishacademy.bsky.social 's Early Career Research Network (ECRN) is designed & funded for you. North West & North Wales cluster is now live. 1/2 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/early-c...

Exterior view of the British Academy, viewed from the small park to its north, looking south, with trees in front of the building on Carton House Terrace.

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