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Nick Higham
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Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4h
In 'The Print,' (1931) Harold Knight depicts his wife Laura holding one of her prints from the pile on the table. Another of her works, 'Circus Dressing Room,' can be seen hanging on the wall behind her as can her reflection in the glass of the frame.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 14h
Orchids and Marigolds: a study…
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If you see a tree in the middle of the road, please be patient as it takes time for them to cross
A tree in the middle of the road
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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 15h
Tullio Crali - Prima che si apra il paracadute 1939 (at the modern art gallery in Udine)
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 15h
This is what they did in the 1850s. Appalling it still happens…
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Brent River Park @brentriverpark.bsky.social · 16h
Properties discharging sewage directly into rivers is a nationwide problem.

Here’s a story from Hampshire:

“Multiple properties built in the 1980s were illegally plumbed into surface water drains.”

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Sewage flowing straight into Lymington River from illegally plumbed homes for decades, water firm finds
Untreated sewage from homes and businesses has been flowing directly into Lymington River for decades, it has been revealed.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d
'Our Lady of the Hills.' (1921) The word anathemata, as David Jones unpicks it in his introduction to what later became an epic poem, means a lifting up and a setting apart of something for our particular savouring. A precise reading of what art is and always should be.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 1d
This was a very jolly saunter with @lauracoffey along a waterway close to my heart. To learn more about London’s New River try this: www.amazon.co.uk/Mercenary-Ri...

Retracing the lost river that was built to quench London’s thirst

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Retracing the lost river that was built to quench London’s thirst
The New River Canal has largely been lost to history, but there remain clues to this extraordinary construction. One expert leads the tour
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 1d
This was a great interview with the charming and knowledgeable Miranda Melcher on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the remarkable men featured in my new book, and the forgotten battle of WW1 that brought them together… newbooksnetwork.com/mavericks
Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 2d
I am at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival on Sunday morning. Come hear about the Kipling character who went to war for real, the younger brother of a British general with an addiction to dangerous sports and the lad from Liverpool who spent his life in fear of communist assassination… #Mavericks
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 2d
Ghost pubs in the 1970s and 80s (a fine collection) plus some still very much alive…
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Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs | Spitalfields Life
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 4d
Great pictures by Thomas Purkis of my talk in Lichfield the other day promoting my new book Mavericks. Great audience too, some good questions, and they bought lots of copies…!
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 4d
“Meticulous research”, “varmint characters” and “a rakish adventure for autumn”! There’s a recommendation. Many thanks to @unseenhistories.com…
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Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com · 4d
From the Caspian Sea to Burma, the Regency to U Boats; our history book picks for the month ahead. With new books from
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New History Books for October 2025  - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 5d
This could be awkward for the BBC: CBS News is its US partner…
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NPR @npr.org · 5d
JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 6d
I think we need more bishops - well, more people - with these names.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent review by Julian Evans in the Telegraph of Mavericks. He calls it “stimulating” and gives it four stars. “Higham has written an entertaining and instructive account of how empires can be fatally weakened by overreach and arrogance…”
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Art of Laundry. Georges Hugnet, Untitled (laundry and legs collage), 1933-1936. Hugnet was a French graphic artist, writer, art historian, critic and film director, and a figure in the Dada movement and Surrealism…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Gabriella Benzi. Christian Eckardt (Danish painter, 1832-1914). Drying sheets on the shore before Split, Croatia 1893. Oil on paper laid down on board…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A World of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. Cover for the magazine
McCall's by Hubbard Sundblom, 1933. Laundry (which was jolly hard work in reality) also lent itself to rather saccharine and sentimental treatments in art like this…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. “Wind of Change" by contemporary Russian artist Emilia Shelamova…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. Iman Maleki 1976. Iranian Realist painter…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 8d
Sad news. ‘The Fields Beneath’ and ‘The House by the Thames’ are two of the best books ever written about London’s history. I hadn’t realised till I looked her up how wide was her range, or that she started by writing fiction…
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 8d
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 9d
London’s sewer system. A product of heroic Victorian endeavour and spectacularly over-specified engineering (which is why it’s lasted so well…!)
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 9d
The 'Great Stink' of 1858, when MPs could no longer work in Parliament due to the stench from the Thames, finally spurred action to clean up the polluted river. Read here about the creation of the Victorian sewer system, still in operation today www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-great-st...
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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 12d
So Sir Terry Farrell has died, aged 87, a fortnight after his one-time architectural partner Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Farrell was a particularly talented large-scale urbanist. An era ends.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 12d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Isabel Amaral Lapa Vasques. Emilie Mundt (1842-1922). Women washing at a well, 1880. Mundt was a Danish artist known for her paintings of children and peasants. She lived for a time in the artists’ colony at Pont-Aven in Britanny…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 12d
Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Alicia Silvia Tessari. Désiré François Laugée (1823-1896). The Laundress, 1882. He was a successful painter of historical and religious subjects who later turned towards naturalism, though one critic thought his peasants “too delicate…”
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