Rope used to topple Colston on display for the first time - in Belgium It's part of exhibition in the official museum of European history

The rope that pulled down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol in 2020 has gone on public display for the first time ever - in....... Brussels.
The full story is here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

BRHG book review: “Beyond the Darkness: Crimes from Another Era”, translated by Mike Jempson. Memoir of French resistance fighter & Armenian communist Mihran Mavian's confrontation with Nazi terror. Reviewer Sean Hosney warns the spectre of fascism looms closer again. www.brh.org.uk/site/book-re...

During the interview he was extremely ranty.
In a podcast earlier in the year, he went off on one about Sadiq Khan, calling him a “pest” (no actual specific criticism just ranting about him)
However, it’s also not his first brush with saying the wrong thing and getting in the nationals >>

@andrewkelly.bsky.social

Lecture & book signing: Dr Brenda Despontin will retell the remarkable story of John Frost, Chartist leader in ‘Some Hidden Thunder' at 10.30am, Sat 21 March, Holy Trinity Church, Horfield (where Frost is buried). www.horfieldparishchurch.org.uk/announcement...

Is @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social modelling for comedy Joe?

Using published, unpublished, local and national sources the first draft of my book, Slums For Heroes is finished. It covers the inter war slum clearances, the mass building of council housing.

That’s a matter of opinion 🤣

Another day in London. This time with Homes England contributing to a podcast promoting supported, specialist supported (and Gypsy, Roma, Traveller) housing as part of the new affordable homes programme. The sections which survive the edit will be broadcast in about a month’s time.

Why do Housing Associations merge? - Cratus Group Me, several other geeks, and a large number of finance people are excited that the Regulator of Social Housing has published its global accounts. The big

The trends of and reasons for housing association mergers

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Catalonia

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SATURDAY 25 APRIL @ M SHED
SUNDAY 26 APRIL @ THE CUBE MICROPLEX
8th annual Bristol Radical History Festival: talks, stalls, films, history walks & exhibitions.
This year’s event's 4 main themes: Propaganda, Utopias & Dystopias, Welsh history & the 1926 General Strike.

I’m 50,000 words into my book on inter-war housing policy and the mass building of council housing with a focus on the Knowle West estate in South Bristol. Scarily totting up sources so far, over 30 books, 650 newspaper articles and 150 council documents.

MacArthur’s warehouse

How can it be 50 years? They only set up in there in the 1990s? I remember us finding Brooke Bond for them when I was chair of land and property

And trade union owned/ generated co-ops…

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Buy A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates by Boughton, John from the RIBA online Bookshop. ISBN 9781914124631

My second book, A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates, is a full colour hardback so not cheap but it's currently discounted and obviously worth every penny. It would make a wonderful Christmas present for someone special in your life. 😊
www.ribabooks.com/a-history-of...

Festival of Ideas 2: Anti-War Cinema and the First World War Andrew Kelly

Coming up 22 November: I’m introducing @swsilents.bsky.social events on The Battle of the Somme and Paths of Glory. Here’s my latest piece on the anti-war cinema of the First World War. Details of events are in the article. Sign up for more essays there, too.

Bevan visiting newly built council estate with local councillors

Born on this day, 1897, Nye Bevan, Minister of Health and Housing when Labour built 805,000 council homes between 1945-51. He believed high-quality council housing should reflect 'the living tapestry of a mixed community'.

Some background reading as my new book includes a section on the council estate pub ban (1922-1933) first over turned in Knowle West

Some background reading as my new book includes a section on the council estate pub ban (1922-1933) first over turned in Knowle West

Which is mentioned in my blog

“Abolish private landlords” - says the Greens It seems that the big winner of the party conference season was housing. Among the big stories were Kemi Badenoch’s announcement that the Conservatives will remove stamp duty of primary residences…

Will abolishing private landlords solve the housing crisis

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Enjoying this story of the short lived Labour government of 1924. In particular the chapter on John Wheatley and his Housing Act

A couple of books to add to my collection

I’ve just read Dr Christopher Addisons resignation from the Government speech - absolutely brutal and incisive

July 1921

Assured Tenancy Not even the most enthusiastic Labour supporter could look back on the first year of Labour in government and declare it a dramatic success filled with relentless progress and public acclamation.

Labours housing achievements - my view of the first year

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Still waiting for homes for Heroes

There is a logic to removing higher rate tax relief on pensions, I wouldn’t call it a tax rise just removing a subsidy to the better paid (like you and me)

Dolemeads before redevelopment in 1890s

Official opening of houses 1901

Dolemeads red brick terraced housing

Ballance Street flats 1970s

This week's Substack post looks at Bath's earliest council housing built before the First World War and its last, a controversial inner-city scheme. Contrary to its genteel image, Bath had an exceptional council housing record.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-first-...