Dr Robert Proctor

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Architectural historian of C20 Britain, from town halls to factories, power stations to churches; modernity, the sacred and the ordinary.
Call for Papers: 'Constructing Coloniality: British Imperialism and the Built Environment', for the 2023 SAHGB Annual Conference. https://www.sahgb.org.uk/call-for-papers/sahgb-constructing-coloniality
Constructing Coloniality: British Imperialism and the Built Environment — SAHGB

The 2023 SAHGB Annual Conference A collaboration with UCL and The London School of Architecture Friday 12 – Sunday 14 May 2023 The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK Deadline for submissions: 27 January 2023

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Late to the game with an #Introduction post.

I live in #Bristol in the UK and am from #Bridgwater in #Somerset

I write #Horror and #CrimeFiction. My most recent book, Municipal Gothic, is a collection of #GhostStories

I watch #films, especially #OldMovies and #HorrorMovies (388/365 in 2022).

I work in #ContentDesign.

I like #Hauntology and #Ephemera – this kind of thing. Anything with a whiff of post-war Britain about it.

A belated #Introduction. I am an architectural historian who specialises in hospitals. Worked for many years at the Survey of London, now in Fife, on the east coast of #Scotland, and in final year of a PhD on NHS hospital architecture in Scotland.
I also knit and garden a bit, am married with a grown up daughter and a juvenile delinquent cat, plus some chickens.
#architecture #ArchitecturalHistory #histodon #HistMed #UrbanHistory #modernism
So, an introduction. I'm an architectural historian, formerly with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, English Heritage and Historic England. The focus of my current research is the history of retailing - I'm writing a book about British chain stores. Still unsure how to find people on this platform! #introductions #historicshops #architecturalhistory #architecture

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain is looking for a Content Editor for the website and magazine: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs/sahgbcontenteditor

Also looking for an Executive Editor for the peer-reviewed journal, 'Architectural History': https://www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs/sahgbcontenteditor

SAHGB Vacancy: Content Editor — SAHGB

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) is seeking a Content Editor to coordinate the production of editorial material across all its media and platforms, print and digital (N.B. except for the Society’s academic journal, Architectural History , which is run autonomously by

SAHGB
Out now - my new article on how ideas of privacy (as well as community) were key in post-war housing, w.r.t. low-rise high-density courtyard designs in Scotland & accompanying residents' social surveys. Photo: Prestonpans, 1963. https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2022.14
Privacy, the Housing Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh and the Courtyard House, 1959–70 | Architectural History | Cambridge Core

Privacy, the Housing Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh and the Courtyard House, 1959–70 - Volume 65

Cambridge Core

In 1922, modernist journals in the wild. James Joyce. T. S. Eliot. Bloomsbury. Sylvia Beach. Paris.

In 2022, modernist journals on the www. Social media. All the things.

https://modjourn.org/

I'm looking at the Joyce, Ulysses, 2015, Little Review edition, edited by Gaipa, Latham and Scholes, and one of the first things I read is that I can also read the early Ulysses eps on the modernist journals website, just like that.

#literature #modernism #Ulysses #Joyce

Modernist Journals |

Introducing myself at last:

Architectural historian. #architecturalhistory #history #architecture #histodons #buildings

Lecturer. #academic #highered

Twentieth century architecture ... #C20 #modernism #modernity #modern #interwar #postwar #midcentury

... and its social and political histories ... #society #politics #state #government #welfare #civic

... especially church architecture ... #churches

... and increasingly not. #powerstation #townhall #industry #factory #commerce #capitalism #university #hospital #urbanism #urbanhistory #landscape

Mostly in Britain, and sometimes beyond. #uk #british #britain #wales #welsh #scottish #scotland #bristol #bath #westcountry

Editorial team of 'Architectural History' for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. #sahgb

But informally, rarely without a camera and interested in everything.