I enjoyed digging into Vic Keegan's history of London's Thorney Island (where many of Westminster's famous insitutions now sit). Here's my review for OnLondon

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Thank you for the chance to write it!

My latest for OnLondon on public art and what becomes of it...

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

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Elin Morgan: Reviving London's historic drinking fountains With the ownership of water again an issue for concerned debate, there is much to be learned from the pioneers of public provision

After a beautiful (hot and thirsty!) London summer, here's my latest piece for @davehillonlondon.bsky.social / On London
about the history of London's drinking fountains and how they're being restored. Thanks to
@holtoflondon.bsky.social
for help in my research www.onlondon.co.uk/elin-morgan-...

Oh I’m so down! Baby yellow warbler says hip hip hurray (feed me)!!! #birds

Elin Morgan: When two little men met in Canning Town A pocket park in Newham, close to a polluted major road, commemorates a famous conversation between Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Chaplin

I wrote a bit for @davehillonlondon.bsky.social about when Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin met in Canning Town, East London in 1931 onlondon.co.uk/elin-morgan-... #filmhistory @newhamheritage.bsky.social

If you're free this evening do go check this out. Something truly different. Very much enjoyed it last night

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking In an early issue of The Rag, there was a warning: “Gentle Thursday Is Coming.” Only it wasn’t so much a warning as it was an invitation, first appearing in a one-inch section of the paper and then…

Aaron Boehmer traces a history of underground presses and political dissent in America.

Looking forward to finally meeting you in person!

Elin Morgan: 'Combing out' Walthamstow's filmmaking past Not many traces of it remain, but London E17 was a force to be reckoned with in the early days of silent movies

I wrote for On London about the starring role my corner of East London played in cinema history, now mostly forgotten. Thanks to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for edits!

This has the potential to be really interesting...

Well this is exciting...

Number crunching: Ticketmaster’s donation to Music Venues Trust v compensation package of Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

2-3-4… Tom’s putting it in now (one for the Popbitch heads).
Enjoyable Farsian/Howsian jaunt around Baker’s Soho.

Not a broccoli shortage! 😱

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own Of all the eidolons that Virginia Woolf conjured up off the page and into the world, perhaps her most insistent is that of Shakespeare’s sister. How alive she is, this Judith Shakespeare, who in re…

“After all, what is a ghost or an eidolon but an enormous psychic need made externally visible?” @legroff.bsky.social on the nuances of A Room of One’s Own.

My current favourite place to write is the cafe at my local library. Coffee and tea is cheap and good and throughout the day, all life is here...

So it seems that if if you're the one person staying in London for Christmas this year, what you'll mostly be doing is feeding cats...Three so far!

Sounds like a writing technique I'd like to try...