New arrival

Historic Buildings Round-up
Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed a new addition to the right-hand column of this blog, just below the list of Pages. This is a feature called Historic Buildings Round-up. It's a daily selection of news about historic buildings, mostly in Britain, from around the web.

Here's how it works. Each day, the online newspaper service paper.li gathers together a small collection of links from a number of sources (I select the sources, paper.li looks for the latest posts, news, or whatever from these sources). Current sources include English Heritage, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, amenity societies such as the Georgian Group and the Victorian Society, and various blogs about historic architecture and conservation. I add further links myself, when I find them. These links are gathered together on a web page that you can access from the right-hand column, where examples of headlines are quietly scrolling away, to give you an idea of what's there today. When you hit Read it now! the day's links display as a separate page. You can also subscribe to this page (you'll find a Subscribe button on the page itself), and when you do so you receive a daily email containing some of the highlights, with a link straight to the Historic Buildings Round-up page on the web. The page is updated daily, with the new version appearing at around 10 am UK time.

Historic Buildings Round-up is a new feature, and it's in its early days. But even in this embryonic form I hope it will prove interesting, and perhaps even useful, to readers of this blog.

Ten more of the best

It's time for my latest selection of favourite posts from this blog, with a new set of links in the column to the right underneath The English Buildings Book. This time, it's a selection of ruins, stretching across time from the Roman period to the twentieth century. My ten ruins range from the ecclesiastical to the industrial, the palatial to the humble. I hope those of you who are new to the blog will enjoy looking at some of these.