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Philip Davies’ Lost London

In a former life in the 1990s I used to work for English Heritage as one of its select and overly academic team of ‘monograph’ editors. We published the formal reports on nationally funded excavations and headline-making building-related stories. My four colleagues were the proper archaeologists, so I was the stand-in for architecture. I like architecture, because … Continue reading Philip Davies’ Lost London →

Kate 19thC, 20thC, architecture, Charles Dickens, Dorothy L Sayers, Edwardian, fashion history, George Eliot, Margery Allingham, Philip Davies, photography, political / social commentary, sociology, time travel 4 Comments October 30, 2015November 14, 2016
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