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A big endorsement to this. EThOS was invaluable to my research and needs to be restored to full capacity.

🚨 New on Substack, my updated post on Norwich's council housing from 1955 to 2019 - a range and quality of council housing unequalled in the country: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/norwich-co...

Ward Royal: a Royal Borough of Windsor estate opened by the Queen in 1969; designed by Mathews, Ryan & Simpson. A controversial scheme due to its visual presence, deck-access form, concrete, brick-clad construction and high rents.

From the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, another reminder of the extraordinary reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: 'Interior at Paddington' by Lucian Freud, commissioned as part of the Arts Council's '60 Paintings for '51' exhibition - Freud’s first large-scale painting.

I'm staying just opposite here - Grade I-listed now.

1/ In Norwich, City Architect David Percival aimed 'not only to reflect the regional architectural tradition in housing schemes but to give individual character to each site' - a fine tradition upheld in the award-winning Goldsmith Street Scheme in 2019. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/norwich-co...

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2/ Norwich City Council built over 7603 homes between the wars. Some 5000 homes were destroyed during the Second World War and the city began to plan again ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

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Municipal Dreams

And an equally enormous loss: EThOS remains down, with plans to resurrect only a hugely degraded version, without downloads. Access to the PhD theses here was crucial. I would always search it on a topic, because these PhD works can be really good. And they don't need to be a book to be cited.

Martin Paul Eve

Meanwhile the UK Web Archive has been unavailable since the British Library cyberattack in October 2023. Our already-spotty digital preservation infrastructures are falling into disrepair along with our universities. www.webarchive.org.uk

www.webarchive.org.uk

Simon