C.J. Schüler
@schulercj.bsky.social
Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...
Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...
A Lost Hero of the Authors' Club
The soldier, archaeologist and crime novelist Stanley Casson
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September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...
Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...
September 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...
Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...
Thomas Hardy Revisited
New insights into old reads
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August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...
The Empire that Refused to Die
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The Empire that Refused to Die
The myth of a thousand-year decline
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August 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Empire that Refused to Die
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Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Across Germany from West to East
A journey through history, culture and politics
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June 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Britain’s biggest beetle takes to the air
It’s time to watch out for the spectacular, endangered stag beetle
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May 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
When Europe Went Star-Crazy
An engaging account of a time when alchemy, astrology and science went hand in hand
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April 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
April 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.
🔍SPOTLIGHT🔎
‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors.
Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast
VP
#london
‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors.
Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast
VP
#london
March 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.
A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Sex and drugs and right-wing rule
Writers and artists in a collapsing world
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March 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Thanks so much to The Authors' Club and @schulercj.bsky.social for inviting @househistorian.bsky.social and I along to The National Liberal Club last week to chat about 'Doors of London'!
February 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Thanks so much to The Authors' Club and @schulercj.bsky.social for inviting @househistorian.bsky.social and I along to The National Liberal Club last week to chat about 'Doors of London'!
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Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! Follow @cathlondon.bsky.social, @househistorian.bsky.social and their editor @schulercj.bsky.social as they lead a virtual tour of hidden architectural gems.
#authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture
bit.ly/DoorTalk
#authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture
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Evening Talk on Doors - News from Sheldrake Press
An evening talk on doors was held at the historic Authors’ Club in London, presented by the editor and authors of ‘Doors of London’.
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February 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! Follow @cathlondon.bsky.social, @househistorian.bsky.social and their editor @schulercj.bsky.social as they lead a virtual tour of hidden architectural gems.
#authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture
bit.ly/DoorTalk
#authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture
bit.ly/DoorTalk
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49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Just received my PLR statement for 2023-4. Not a vast sum of money, but pleasing to know that Along the Amber Route was borrowed from public libraries 190 times that year.
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January 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just received my PLR statement for 2023-4. Not a vast sum of money, but pleasing to know that Along the Amber Route was borrowed from public libraries 190 times that year.
www.amazon.co.uk/Along-Amber-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Along-Amber-...
My latest Substack, on a classic of Victorian nature writing: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My latest Substack, on a classic of Victorian nature writing: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
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See more of London's elegance in 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. 🚪🖤✨ bit.ly/DoorsofLondon #doorsoflondon #londonarchitecture
#aestheticlondon
#aestheticlondon
December 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
See more of London's elegance in 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. 🚪🖤✨ bit.ly/DoorsofLondon #doorsoflondon #londonarchitecture
#aestheticlondon
#aestheticlondon
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For a first time author like Cath Harries, nothing compares to the feeling of seeing your name up in lights for the first time.
Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon
Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon
December 17, 2024 at 11:08 AM
For a first time author like Cath Harries, nothing compares to the feeling of seeing your name up in lights for the first time.
Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon
Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon
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📚 BOOKSPOTTING 📚
Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'
Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'
December 17, 2024 at 11:08 AM
📚 BOOKSPOTTING 📚
Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'
Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'
Simon Armitage reinvents a folk tale: cjschuler.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Simon Armitage reinvents a folk tale: cjschuler.substack.com
Excuse the rant, but this kind of environmental vandalism makes my blood boil.
November 30, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Excuse the rant, but this kind of environmental vandalism makes my blood boil.
New post on Substack: John Sweeney, Russia and Ukraine: cjschuler.substack.com/p/murder-in-...
Murder in the Gulag
John Sweeney talks to the Authors' Club
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November 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
New post on Substack: John Sweeney, Russia and Ukraine: cjschuler.substack.com/p/murder-in-...