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Picture: Launching Ian Nairn’s Modern Buildings in London at the Century Club, Soho

Launching Ian Nairn’s Modern Buildings in London @century_soho @nottinghilleditions
thanks to all who came and @alexfestival for the snap &
@newhambookshop for selling copies on the night
#iannairn #modernbuildingsinlondon

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Picture: Modern Buildings in London event at the LRB with Gillian Darley and Charles Holland

Picture from the LRB bookshop – thanks to everyone who came along to this sold out event

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Event: The Spectacular Story of Spectacles, Thurs 7 September 8pm, The Latest Music Bar, Brighton

Book here:

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Event: Walking on Thin Air with Geoff Nicholson on 31 August 7pm, Stanfords, Covent Garden

I’ll be talking to Geoff Nicholson about his new book at Stanfords on 31 August.

Book tickets here:

https://www.stanfords.co.uk/event-walking-on-thin-air-a-lifes-journey-in-99-steps-by-geoff-nicholson-684661219137

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Read: Modern Buildings in London my introduction online at The Paris Review

Read online here:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08/07/anti-ugly-action/

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Event: Dover Fictions, myself with Danny Bee and Charles Holland, Wed 9 August 7pm, Vinoteq Wine Bar and Venue , 1 Cannon Street Dover CT16 1BY

For Dover Arts Developments You can reach the world from Dover festival Danny Bee: Radical Walker ,Travis Elborough: Writer and Broadcaster and Charles Holland: Architect and writer will explore Dover in fiction.

Dover’s symbolic significance has rendered it an important setting for literary fiction and popular storytelling. This talk will explore stories, books and song lyrics that feature Dover as both a setting and a protagonist, tracing its evolution as a symbol of Englishness, its role as a place of arrival and departure and the drama of its topography.

Dover Fictions will be a three-way conversation between writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough, radical walker and social historian Danny Bee and architect and writer Charles Holland. It will take place in the popular Vinoteq wine bar on Dover’s Bench Street.

Free but reserve your place here:

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Pictures: Jeremy Deller at the Rio

Polaroids of Deller, Richard Boon and Toby Amies, other pictures thanks to @alexfestival

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Pictures: Pauline Boty Plaque Unveiling Ceremony

With Celia Birtwell, Natalie Gibson, Sue Tate & Corinne Drewery

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Event: Everybody in the Place + Q&A and book signing with Jeremy Deller, 6 July 6.30pm, Rio Cinema Dalston

Book here:

https://riocinema.org.uk/movie/everybody-in-the-place-qa-and-book-signing-with-jeremy-deller

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Pictures: Polaroids from The Hunger screening at the Rio with Cathi Unsworth

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June 23, 2023 · 8:49 am