Ian Waites
@ianwaites.bsky.social
Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
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The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect
The Radburn Idea 2 continues the story of my previous book, 'The Radburn Idea: pedestrianisation in the post-war English housing estate' by...
theradburnidea.bigcartel.com
My new book, The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect, is now on sale! 76pp, with 32 photographs/illustrations. £12 incl postage. theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
On Black Friday, a happy birthday to William Blake.
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
On Black Friday, a happy birthday to William Blake.
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28th November 2025 08.03
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
28th November 2025 08.03
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The Italians http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79852
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Italians http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79852
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Jules Renard’s journal, 28 June 1899
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Jules Renard’s journal, 28 June 1899
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My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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Camouflage train.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Camouflage train.
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The link doesn't work, as Richard Ashcroft nearly sang. Here's a better one: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The link doesn't work, as Richard Ashcroft nearly sang. Here's a better one: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
My new book, The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect, is now on sale! 76pp, with 32 photographs/illustrations. £12 incl postage. theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect
The Radburn Idea 2 continues the story of my previous book, 'The Radburn Idea: pedestrianisation in the post-war English housing estate' by...
theradburnidea.bigcartel.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My new book, The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect, is now on sale! 76pp, with 32 photographs/illustrations. £12 incl postage. theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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1776: This is the first great frost. Gathered in all the grapes. Grapes are good.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: This is the first great frost. Gathered in all the grapes. Grapes are good.
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Lincoln Cathedral yesterday afternoon.
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Lincoln Cathedral yesterday afternoon.
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23rd November 2025 08.02
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
23rd November 2025 08.02
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this is more christmassy than your poxy ai drinks ad
CCTV captures fox and otter’s tour of Lincoln city centre
A wildlife expert says the footage of the animals wandering past shops and bars is
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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is more christmassy than your poxy ai drinks ad
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Two fascinating 1918 aerial photo albums, and lots of crashed planes. Hackpen White Horse, Wiltshire. kresenkernow.org/SOAP/search/...
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Two fascinating 1918 aerial photo albums, and lots of crashed planes. Hackpen White Horse, Wiltshire. kresenkernow.org/SOAP/search/...
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It’s Saturday Morning Municipal Street Lighting Nerd Club. Sticking with Philips, here is the MA50, part of a family of award-winning lanterns developed in the mid-1970s, the largest of which, the MA60, would light much of the UK motorway network in the late 70s and 80s:
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It’s Saturday Morning Municipal Street Lighting Nerd Club. Sticking with Philips, here is the MA50, part of a family of award-winning lanterns developed in the mid-1970s, the largest of which, the MA60, would light much of the UK motorway network in the late 70s and 80s:
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On Free Thinking: geology considered as one of the humanities and everything you wanted to know about Object Oriented Ontology but were afraid to ask. With Rosemary Hill, Sarah Jackson, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Rocks
How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?
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November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
On Free Thinking: geology considered as one of the humanities and everything you wanted to know about Object Oriented Ontology but were afraid to ask. With Rosemary Hill, Sarah Jackson, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I have dreams of summer skies.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I have dreams of summer skies.
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A stranger in paradise.
BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics
Now Playing
Alexander Borodin, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein
Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)
Essential Classics
Now Playing
Alexander Borodin, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein
Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A stranger in paradise.
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"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
'Landscapes of Power'
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'Landscapes of Power'
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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
'Landscapes of Power'
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/landscapes...
'Landscapes of Power'
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/landscapes...
