RCKa's directory of small site housing projects in London, intended as a resource for architects, policymakers and anyone interested housing design excellence.
The interactive directory is available at https://smallsites.london.
Coffee, cities, beer, cycling.
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(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
Worked at RHS Wisley, now retired and a happy and proud volunteer there. Passionate about Wisley, plants and gardens. Also a quilter, embroiderer and beader. Proud to be Woke. 'Woke just means you give a damn about other people’ Jane Fonda 2025
East London dweller, cyclist, swimmer, runner powered by plants and great tunes. 時々日本語でつぶやきますよ。
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://en.osm.town/@okwithmydecay, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too.
Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: https://linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Rights of nature & climate campaigner. Barrister & river guardian. Love trees & rivers; & working to defend, protect & restore them. Founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social & @riverroding.bsky.social
Travel in time, witness the people & places that changed our lives in Britain & beyond using our maps as a window into history, brought alive by our researchers & authors.
Great Gifts!
From £3.50 pp. https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/home.html
Autotelic - Human - art & politics
Photographer filmmaker and sometimes publisher
Journalist covering Hackney, Islington and Camden for MyLondon. Tips to josef.steen@reachplc.com
The representative body for all residents on the Pembury Estate in Hackney. Become a member at https://pemburyestate.com/
Local Democracy Reporter for Hackney, Islington and Camden @ Citizen News. Reposts =/= endorsements. Tips to Josef.steen@hackneycitizen.co.uk
Walking, cycling, design, rugby, theatre, Labour, much music, good journalism. Hackney UK
We’re a group of local residents supporting efforts to reduce motor traffic levels in Hackney, to reduce air and noise pollution, enable safer cycling and reduce carbon emissions
https://www.lowtraffichackney.org/
🤌 award-winning shows
🫴 artist development
🤝 community space
📍 Kings Crescent Estate, Hackney
Founder of the Hackney Buzzline
🎨 Art by an evil genius/plonker
🏆 BAFTA winner / ex Cartoon Network
🏠 Based in Hackney Downs Studios
The Hackney Food Partnership brings people together to create a healthy, sustainable food system in Hackney. Contact us at hackneyfood@sustainablehackney.org
Something for everyone in Hackney 📍
Coming Soon: The Exoplanets, Touch of Class and more...
Monitored Mon - Fri, 10am - 6pm
linktr.ee/hackneyempire
We're volunteers who grow trees at the Hackney Community Tree Nursery and plant them out in Hackney’s parks and green spaces.
Email: hello@treemusketeers.org.uk
Doctoral candidate from Hackney researching the urban landscapes of twenty-first century London
blog: https://zuhrijames.wordpress.com
Landscape Architect. Urban Designer. Flâneur. European.
Founding Director - @TapestryStudio
Chair - Urban Design Group
Director - Hackney Wick Fish Island Community Development Trust
Freelance journalist living in London. Words in The Fence, Fieldfare Press, The Hackney Mixer
Supporting businesses and residents improve air quality by using sustainable transport. Working in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, City of London and Westminster.
Rockbusters winner, Spurs fan, music snob, beer 'enthusiast', Hackney lover, ex-Libertines fanboy, lefty, carnivore, rubbish gay, KEXP donor, copier of old bios
Labour and Co-op Cllr for Cazenove Ward (Hackney), Deputy Cabinet Member for the Inclusive Economy. Just finished a PhD. Never knowingly under Karoke'ed.
Head of Strategic Programmes & Strategy. ❤️#localgov. Black & Jewish, Londoner, Mother, Gooner, Hackney lady and blogger. ♥️ diversity matters. Views my own.
@TaniaTSays on X
Green news, advice and events from Hackney
Hackney Labour Councillor 🌹 Deputy Cabinet Member for #StrengtheningNeighbourhoods. GMB member. Trustee Surfers Not Street Children Views my own
Campaigner for gambling reform (Coalition to End Gambling Ads). Urban health enthusiast. Dad of three in Hackney, London.
Real hope and real change, for social, economic & environmental justice.
Published by S Liberadzki on behalf of Hackney Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Hackney councillor and deputy cabinet member for SEND and early years. Freelance speaker and advisor in the fertility sector and VC of Fabian women’s network amongst other things ! Trying to make a bit of a difference…
Labour Mayor of Hackney, elected in Nov 2023 by-election. London Councils Shadow Exec for Children and Young People.
Hackney Councillor for Woodberry Down and Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport. For casework please email sarah.young@hackney.gov.uk
Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 4 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Warré beek. Was community tree carer, forest gardener, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarily
Founder of indie publisher Art/Books. Hackney and Naples via Yorkshire and Paris. Football. Books. Food. Forza Napoli Sempre. 23. Music. Usually but not always in that order. 'Meglio 3 scudetti con dignità cà 36 senza onestà.' Now 4 scudetti.
Investigations editor at Liberty Investigates. Previously of Dialogue Earth, openDemocracy, Big Issue, HuffPost, Hackney Gazette. London via Wolverhampton
Video and photo maker
Hackney - London
Born California Raised New Jersey.
Urban mobility, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, parklets.
https://youtube.com/@iambrianjones
Hackney Councillor. Cabinet Member, Employment, Skills & HR. When I'm not on the doorstep speaking to residents, I'm Chair CLF Employment & Skills Board, Trustee, Shoreditch Trust, and Governor at Homerton Hospital NHS Trust.
We want to make Hackney safer, healthier with streets for everyone.
Join us, and be part of the London Cycling Campaign to help transform our borough.
VMO: Campaigner, politico, proud ♥️ Hackney & London - likes urbanism, community, culture, cooking, #ParkRun, F45, travel, housing, architecture, theatre, climate action, public transport & fmr Mayor.
Hackney Council's official Bluesky!
Weekly news and what's on ➡️ http://hackney.gov.uk/newsletters
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Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
I'm Maria, and I run walking tours of London where women's hidden histories are brought to life with theatre and comedy
ORGAN, Art, Music, Underculture - words, links, art galleries, bands, radio, albums, ResonanceFM, in print, on walls, on line, since the photocopied zine days of 1986 - www.organthing.com - this feed brought to you by Sean - @seanworrall-01.bsky.social
The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/
London Archaeologist is published 4 times a year, for anyone interested in London's archaeology
Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group was formed to enable improvement of Clapton Pond in Hackney and surrounds.
Lecturer in Art History; Doctor of London's murals & 'the Left', 1975-86; Socialist; Trade unionist; Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://profiles.open.ac.uk/ben-wiedel-kaufmann
www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Active travel campaigner. Work in Comms.
New to Cambridge.
Married a Welshman.
Maori/kiwi immigrant.
Love: school streets, low motor-traffic neighbourhoods, cycle/walk infrastructure, parklets, climate action, Kidical Mass, 20mph, people-friendly streets.
Freelance designer / cartoonist. Organiser of WIP Comics and the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair.
Design » https://www.joe-stone.co.uk/
Comics » https://www.joestonecomics.co.uk/
Social » https://linktr.ee/joe.stone
Culture Lead for Hackney. @BechdelTestFest Founder. Author of ' Love Romcoms & I'm A Feminist'. Film Critic; Empire, Rolling Stone, BBC etc...
Practical Ecologist and Filmmaker who probably spends a bit too much time building deadwood habitat. Currently working to bring reptiles, amphibians and small mammals back to Hackney Marshes.
London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
The largest selection of architectural illustration products on the web https://architectural-icons.com artwork by @anfurman.bsky.social
Hackney's independent, free monthly newspaper. Got a story? Contact us at editor@hackneycitizen.co.uk
Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
A network of groups and individuals in Hackney committed to environmental protection and social justice.
Born Homerton Hackney London local history mainly Hackney history - has es ven yox rufn eyds antisemetik
Mostly active travel | climate | politics | utility cycling | environmental-health/pollution | LTNs | tradeunion | Occasional ultra-running | A smattering of lower-league-football food beers & other random stuff | Chartered EHP | Personal account
I'm an artist living and working in London, UK. I'm making this account a haven of peace and tranquility with examples of my artwork. You can see more of my art at https://www.ko-fi.com/sketchingheather No NFTs. ©Heather James
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT
Talking about how cities achieve contentious change with strategic engagement and communications. Consulting and training: https://strategic-cities.com/
Sydney | London 🚲🌳🌈
(Personal thoughts from Mark A - often astride a bicycle.)
Director of The Rayne Foundation, London cyclist, formerly CEO @CPRE; @TheCCT and @revdoors; former chair of @londoncyclingcampaign and @stokeyschool OBE; he/him
We protect and regenerate London's historic buildings.
30 years of saving the City's Heritage at Risk 🏛️
https://linktr.ee/londonhistoricbuildings
Fans of brutalism, modernism & our home in the Barbican at http://www.instagram.com/barbican_city_of_London & at http://Greyscape.com
A new magazine for Hackney. A mixed bag of features, news and writing at https://thehackneymixer.substack.com/?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2F%2522the%2520hackney%2520mixer%2522&utm_medium=reader2&utm_campaign=reader2
Postboxes | London | urban architecture and streets | parks and gardens | urban rivers | theatre | opera | art | churches | cricket | Norfolk Terriers | decent beer. AI sceptic. All views personal.
Author: historic architecture, places, history. Here I post English buildings in their variety: churches but also cafés, gazebos but also garages, public houses but also public loos. Plus occasional books, art, carvings, and other stuff.
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Development & Membership at the Heritage Alliance. Trustee at The Maritime Heritage Trust. Director at Hild. Nichiren Buddhist and SGI Member. Talk in footnotes. Views my own.
Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Guided history walks in Islington, Camden and Hackney by qualified local London guide. Lived in these boroughs all my adult life and love sharing their secrets https://lesleythompson.co.uk
BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Writer, Speaker, President of Wakefield Civic Society
| 🏳️🌈 | Books | Philosophy | Art Deco | Travel| etc, etc, etc.
Chair of Tanzania Development Trust and Hackney Society, founder of Hackney History Festival.
Professor of Urban Analytics @ CASA UCL -
@casauc.bsky.social. Lover of drum & bass, beer and tattoos. Drummer. Dad. Run a bit. Live in Brighton.
“90’s AI”, sensing and emerging tech in the built and natural environment - Prof of Connected Environments @casaucl.bsky.social www.iot.io
Follow our campaign to protect the Lower Lea Valley (Leyton, Walthamstow & Hackney Marshes) from inappropriate use and development.
https://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
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Hackney Society, Hackney Archives, Sutton House & many more host Hackney History Festival each May. Get in touch to help shape future events!
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
CEO: Hypha Studios
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. High-Tech Britain out March 2026!
Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Writer and editor on architecture. Chair of Twentieth Century Society. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" published by Yale.
23 🇨🇳 she/her • 🎓 bsc arch. — 💼 public sector • ✍️ Drawing architecture with architects, mostly Modern • 📩 artofcysun@gmail.com • 📍 London/Essex
Architect
Professor at UCA, Canterbury
Principal at Charles Holland Architects
