Modernist infrastructure in rural environments, especially the 20th century. We support a low/no carbon powered future. Migrating to IG: rural_modernism
rural
Joined December 2017
- Tweets2.4K
- Following395
- Followers2.4K
- Likes2.2K
Pinned Tweet
Our new book is out today!
If you're an academic, please ask your university library to order a copy.
@BritishAcademy_
ALT new lives new landscapes revisited rural modernity in Britain front cover
Hello rural modernists. We haven't set up a bluesky account as yet. Would you move over there? We are on Insta so do follow us there.
60%yes
40%no
10 votes • Final results 329
Rural Modernism retweeted
For those unable to attend the Smallbrook planning committee tomorrow Thursday 28th September 11am, here’s the link to livestream via YouTube >>> youtube.com/@birminghamcityc… – at West Midlands, England
Rural Modernism retweeted
St Michael’s water tower glowing in the gloaming… 🌾⛲️☀️ #Suffolk #TheSaints #StMichaelSouthElmham @bwtas @RuralModernism
Rural Modernism retweeted
"Do that again" says man with camera, ensuring I am caught in the act of breaching copyright. Hydro Board aesthetics. @RuralModernism fits well in the glens.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Rural Modernism retweeted
The second highlight of @Krankenhausfest was Hayden Thorpe and Jack McNeill setting Robert Macfarlane's Ness to music – at North West, England
Just a reminder that we're migrating over to IG: instagram.com/rural_modernis…
Rural Modernism retweeted
Yesterday we went by train to Windermere & from there by bus to Calder Hall Atomic Power Station, which was most interesting. There was a terrific thunderstorm during the night, but it has remained fine so far today. I'm going to have a rest now, as we have a Dinner Dance tonight
Rural Modernism retweeted
Listening to @BBCr4today prompts me to post these CEGB adverts from the 1960s (incl. in the book I’m currently writing). Current debates about the siting of pylons strongly resonate with those erupting in the 1950s/60s with the expansion of the national grid and super grid.
Rural Modernism retweeted
It replicates a map that was a supplement to Amateur Wireless magazine in January 1923, and is partly a test of techniques to gather such information and use mapping tools.
The image was used in my #congruenceengine SMGJ paper on communications history journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/…
Rural Modernism retweeted
I've made an interactive map of wireless (radio) transmitting stations, 1923. If you click on a pin it calls up the call sign and other information. google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…
Rural Modernism retweeted
One of the big stories of economic and environmental change in Britain since 1950 has been the massive decline of energy production in cities. Urban areas have ceased to be areas of energy production, instead becoming large consumers of energy imported from rural areas.
Rural Modernism retweeted
The Atomic Energy Exhibition Train, which toured Britain for several months in 1947. Designed by Peter Moro & Robin Day to “popularise the subject of atomic energy”.
Rural Modernism retweeted
I'm reading Michael Gage's 'Guide to Exposed Concrete Finishes' (1970). Catnip for me - so here follows a thread of some of the tasty things in it.
underbridge thread
I love pottering out on my bike to this point where the tail end of the M5 crosses the Exeter canal. It’s such a special place, the light, colour, acoustics, the sense of these huge monolithic structures looming above you, the precision of the engineering (look at that gap!).
ALT Photo looking west under the M5 motorway as it gently curves away. It stands in fields where (unseen in this picture) cows graze. Graffiti adorns the first six feet of each column, above that it’s beautiful raw concrete.
Rural Modernism retweeted
This is a bit wider apart, but the best bit is that the road disappears into a tunnel.
(At the end of the M20 at Folkestone, heading towards Dover through the Roundhill Tunnel)
Rural Modernism retweeted
I love pottering out on my bike to this point where the tail end of the M5 crosses the Exeter canal. It’s such a special place, the light, colour, acoustics, the sense of these huge monolithic structures looming above you, the precision of the engineering (look at that gap!).
ALT Photo looking west under the M5 motorway as it gently curves away. It stands in fields where (unseen in this picture) cows graze. Graffiti adorns the first six feet of each column, above that it’s beautiful raw concrete.
Paul Readman has a chapter in our edited collection about the heritage of military structures in the countryside: theguardian.com/culture/2023…
6
1,022