Jonathan Foyle
@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.
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Christmas talk- this year, 'Fragments'- how cultural artifacts survive, emerge and how to identify them. Sun 14 December, 7.30 GMT, Zoom
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A noted specialist in good order and discipline.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A noted specialist in good order and discipline.
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
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In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT.
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT.
A new film, on Pugin's wondrous St Giles, Cheadle. heni.com/talks/inside...
Inside Pugin’s St Giles: The Gothic Revival Church That Stunned Victorian Britain | HENI Talks
Step inside St Giles, Cheadle – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’s dazzling Gothic Revival Catholic church that stunned Victorian Britain. Completed in 1846, this “jewel box” interior is one of the most...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A new film, on Pugin's wondrous St Giles, Cheadle. heni.com/talks/inside...
Mermaid Street, Rye
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Mermaid Street, Rye
Took the UK five years to conclude that not taking action to stem the spread of viral disease, after watching mass casualties spreading from China to North Italy, had consequences.
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Took the UK five years to conclude that not taking action to stem the spread of viral disease, after watching mass casualties spreading from China to North Italy, had consequences.
Crepuscularity, Somerset
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Crepuscularity, Somerset
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Food for thought: from Jane Jacobs’ ‘The Death and Life of American Cities’, 1961
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Food for thought: from Jane Jacobs’ ‘The Death and Life of American Cities’, 1961
Lea Castle, Worcestershire: the Picture Room. Lea Castle was built in the 1760s and demolished in 1945. It was a potty work of architecture and I'm sorry not to have seen it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lea Castle, Worcestershire: the Picture Room. Lea Castle was built in the 1760s and demolished in 1945. It was a potty work of architecture and I'm sorry not to have seen it.
Christmas talk- this year, 'Fragments'- how cultural artifacts survive, emerge and how to identify them. Sun 14 December, 7.30 GMT, Zoom
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November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Christmas talk- this year, 'Fragments'- how cultural artifacts survive, emerge and how to identify them. Sun 14 December, 7.30 GMT, Zoom
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Embossed title of a book cover, 1850. So precise, apt, subtle.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Embossed title of a book cover, 1850. So precise, apt, subtle.
Small mid C19 house in Bradford on Avon, Wilts that achieves marvellous ordered complexity with a 3- arch ground floor: left leads into a passage to the rear; the right two offer a sheltered entrance porch and barrier to the street. Just a great leap of logic.
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Small mid C19 house in Bradford on Avon, Wilts that achieves marvellous ordered complexity with a 3- arch ground floor: left leads into a passage to the rear; the right two offer a sheltered entrance porch and barrier to the street. Just a great leap of logic.
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There aren’t many architectural history jokes.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
There aren’t many architectural history jokes.
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@florianurban.bsky.social found for our book Form Follows Fuel that it's v hard to get #embodiedenergy figures for buildings today. #embodiedcarbon is widespread, yet it's much less clear, and more vulnerable to distortion. Here's our argument:
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...
Is embodied carbon a vanity metric?
With ambitions for regenerative architecture increasing, it is vitally important that we measure the right things in trying to get there, say Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
@florianurban.bsky.social found for our book Form Follows Fuel that it's v hard to get #embodiedenergy figures for buildings today. #embodiedcarbon is widespread, yet it's much less clear, and more vulnerable to distortion. Here's our argument:
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...
George IV used to do this in front of naval paintings at Carlton House. Don't recall the Bow Street Runners turning up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Arrest after man suspected of posing as navy admiral at Llandudno Remembrance event
Police said a naval uniform and a selection of medals were seized from the man's home.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
George IV used to do this in front of naval paintings at Carlton House. Don't recall the Bow Street Runners turning up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Image shows Bath Fire Station, refused a listing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Image shows Bath Fire Station, refused a listing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A Somerset render-ready architrave, @limefinishes.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A Somerset render-ready architrave, @limefinishes.bsky.social