Writer, historian, antiquary and contributing editor at the LRB. Devoted south-Londoner
mostly Camberwell
Joined March 2013
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Two Profile bestsellers at @LRB this week! Great to see #Interwar by Gavin Stamp and #TheHundredYearsWarOnPalestine by Rashid Khalidi on this list 🤩
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📚We're absolutely thrilled that TWO titles by C20 and @BatsfordBooks have been shortlisted for the 2024 Architecture Book Awards!
Haven't read 100 20th Century Shops and Brutalist Britain yet? Order both now from the C20 Shop and save 20%.
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Before the Blitz: the dynamism of British architecture spectator.co.uk/article/befo…
Interesting exhibition of Lucy Harwood at @firstsite would @hughstcinspired like to see a piece I have by her -a portrait of Cedric Morris?
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More events for March!
On 12 Mar, Rosemary Hill & @RowanMoore will discuss Gavin Stamp's monumental survey of British architecture between the world wars, INTERWAR
Book here: lrb.me/xk3
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Congratulations to Rosemary Hill (@misspegler) for being named to the shortlist for this year’s Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for her book "Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism" (@penguinpress).
Learn more at go.nd.edu/69b3cc.
The Lives of Stonehenge: Inigo Jones and John Wood lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
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#EventAlert “Gavin Stamp, A Visit to the Archive,” @PaulMellonCentr, @C20Society, 22 February 2023, with curator @JoshuaMardell1 and @misspegler, @alanpowers99, @catherinecroft, for a private view and discussion of Stamp’s legacy over a glass of wine. See: secure.c20society.org.uk/Def…
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The next two events at @LRBbookshop (@aleksandarhemon, @chris_power and @LaurenElkin, Constance Debré) are sold out
But there are still a few tickets for @clarebucknell and Rosemary Hill @misspegler on 9 February, talking about Bucknell’s The Treasuries:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/clare-buc…
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Kicking off the new year with my new column! Here is my first column for The Sunday Times: The price of being a good parent is letting them hate you
thetimes.co.uk/article/03d84…
Cartoon from @Spectator’s Lunchtime Espresso. Sign up for free: spectator.co.uk/lunchtime-es…
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1st Ep of S2 is out! I interview @misspegler to discuss “Time’s Witness”. We talk all things antiquarian and romantic, the nature of historical narratives, Walter Scott and the shadowy Sobieski Stuarts, and the antiquarian legacy. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… open.spotify.com/episode/1Et…
Nadal v Fritz Boris v the whole Tory party - hard to know where to look #boriscollapse #Wimbledon2022
TFL wants to axe the no 12 bus - vital s London service @sanditoksvig you ride the route you wrote the book HELP #buses #peckham #camberwell - we only have a few weeks
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‘The Eltham Hutments were in every sense provisional, literally and architecturally an interim phase in 20th-century social housing, flung up to cope with the influx of workers at the arsenal after 1914.’
@misspegler finds her father in the 1921 census:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/…
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Rosemary Hill’s father never liked to discuss his family’s complicated history. But when an old census became available, she began to find out more about his childhood in a South London hut.
@misspegler in the latest issue:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/…