rag-picking history

Recent posts

• Ruin gazing: dead cities and the imagination of disaster
• Wild spaces: the Carneddau, Snowdonia
• Rest in distinction: the allure of catacombs
• Ghosts in the city: the ruined churches of Famagusta
• Into the Forbidden Zone: Varosha, ghost city of Cyprus
• Victorian dragons
• 108 arches to Ardwick: the view from below
• Cottonopolis
• Imperial exotic: early iron buildings for export
• Dreaming spires: Victorian chimneys
• Walking the girdle (part 2)
• Walking the girdle (part 1)
• Palaces of commerce: Manchester’s Victorian warehouses
• Dream spaces: railway stations and the beyond
• Study seminar on ruins, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• Meta-ornament: railway tracks
• Paddington station: function & fantasy
• Arcadian dreams in Paris
• Cryptic space
• Mass ornament: Parisian love padlocks
• The intestine of Leviathan: visiting the Paris sewers
• The language of the walls: Victorian posters
• Advertising the underground: London’s first Thames Tunnel
• An English edgeland: Covehithe, Suffolk
• Representing the nation: the Thames Embankment lamps
• Death by ornament: the Sailors’ Home gates, Liverpool
• Curiosities of the Victorian census
• Communal reading and everyday life
• Ornament and memory
• Utopian ruins: Fountain Gardens, Paisley
• Peak Hollows
• The industrial sublime: Castlefield, Manchester
• The afterlife of objects: the Coalbrookdale gates
• Hidden spaces: the Derbyshire Dales
• Absurd space: the Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool
• Measuring Victorian London: Mogg’s cab fare map
• Study day on decorative iron and Victorian architecture
• Measuring Victorian London: Mogg’s cab fare book
• The Dark Arches of Leeds
• The world in a book: the Post Office London Directory