Getting Black Back into the Story: Why Black People Mattered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Posted by Scott Hancock on 2025-12-03

Most Sundays, especially when the weather is pleasant, I go for long walks on a bucolic, peaceful landscape, whose gently rolling hills and farms are marked off by wood split-rail fences. The landscape looks like it could have been pulled straight out of mid-nineteenth century rural United States. And that’s because in many respects it was: the nearly 2500 hectares surrounding the small town of [...]

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The housing estate: novel solution or part of a longer history?

Posted by Julian Williams on 2025-08-07

The 2025 Netflix mini-series Too Much sees Jessica, played by Morgan Slater, relocate to London. To her surprise, the salubrious-sounding ‘Hoxton Grove Estate’ with hoped-for ‘estate grounds, verdant gardens, archways, some real Merchant Ivory-type shit’ turns out to be (irl) the St Peter’s Estate, Hackney Road, London, commissioned in 1962 and completed in 1967 for Tower Hamlets Borough Council. [...]

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