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Tag Archives: John Rogers

Escape to a wilder city: London as National Park

I must admit that when I first heard about the campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City, I thought it was a joke.

And yet the more I thought about it, the more interesting the concept became.

August 29, 2014 in City, Landscape, London.

A dream of a bookshop: Topping & Company Booksellers, Ely

The Topping and Company bookshop in Ely is so good it’s almost laughable. This is the kind of shop that you don’t expect to find in real life; only, perhaps, in a lost Penelope Lively children’s book, or there to be sneered at for its too-good-to-be-true perfection in a Richard Curtis film.

January 6, 2014 in Books, Bookshops, City, Landscape.

William it was really something: A Blake birthday walk with CURIOCITY magazine

To celebrate the 256th anniversary of William Blake’s birth. Curiocity – the map magazine –organized a Blake themed walk around Soho, Covent Garden and Piccadilly.

December 9, 2013 in Art, City, Landscape, London.

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  • Ad Cochrane
  • Backlisted Podcast
  • Fife Psychogeography
  • Ink Cap Journal
  • Landscapism
  • Lines of Landscape
  • The Cofa's Tree
  • The Lazarus Corporation
  • The Stone and the star
  • The Willowherb Review

Blogroll

  • Hope Not Hate
  • UK Feminista

Bookshops

  • Big Green Bookshop
  • Bookmongers of Brixton
  • Books Are My Bag
  • Bookseller Crow
  • Dulwich Books
  • Kirkdale Bookshop
  • Skoob
  • Topping & Company

Green spaces & environmental projects

  • A people's manifesto for wildlife
  • Adventures in Conservation
  • Camley Street Natural Park
  • Great North Wood project
  • Greater London National Park City
  • Ink Cap Journal
  • Narroways Millennium Green Trust
  • Notes from Near and Far
  • Open Orchard Project

Landscape, place, folklore, history

  • Anatomy of Norbiton
  • Caught by the river
  • Cities and Memory
  • Common Ground
  • Earth Lines magazine
  • East of Elvedon
  • Elsewhere Journal
  • Ephemeral New York
  • Folklore Thursday
  • Ideal-homes: Suburbia in focus
  • Love London Council Housing
  • Municipal Dreams
  • Psychogeographic review
  • Sound Around You – Sound map of Britain
  • Tales of the city
  • The London Sound Survey
  • The Lost Byway
  • The Marshman Chronicles
  • The Midnight Run
  • The Museum of Thin Objects

Prose n' poetry, Art n' photography,

  • Backlisted Podcast
  • Book me book blog
  • Bundle of Books
  • Diana J Hale Blog
  • Frames of Reference
  • My Pinterest boards
  • Poet's Directory
  • Poetry Landmarks
  • Slightly Foxed
  • The Willowherb Review
  • Wormwoodiana

Records and Music

  • British Record Shop Archive
  • Flashback Records
  • For Folk's Sake
  • Friends with both arms
  • John Peel's record collection online
  • My "This is my Jam" selections
  • Plankton Productions
  • The Quietus
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