Dorian Gerhold

Historian and former House of Commons Clerk

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

The Government is determined to conceal the ever-rising cost of the Holocaust Memorial, currently £138.8m plus contingency. The document which revealed the contingency to be £51.8m has now been amended on the web to leave out that figure. #VictoriaTowerGardens

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

The Times rewrote the letter attached. Originally it said: "At the same time it is pressing ahead with a £190 million plan for a Holocaust memorial and learning centre, which in its present form is a vanity project that has been opposed in Parliament by Holocaust survivors."

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

2 of the things that stand out from Sunak's speech cancelling #HS2: the sheer dishonesty of promising numerous transport schemes which have no committed funding, and the contempt for Parliament shown by making such a major announcement at a party conference.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

A lesson from the Beeching cuts was the folly of closing off future options by building on railway land that might be needed again. Sunak's selling off of land bought for the #HS2 Birmingham-Manchester scheme to prevent the scheme ever being revived shows he has learnt nothing.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@UKHMF In reality the Government fought hard to prevent the Bill being declared hybrid, in order to avoid proper parliamentary scrutiny. It is afraid of having to defend publicly its ill-considered decision to build the Memorial and Learning Centre in a public park.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@SaveVTG @thisischerilyn It's even worse than that. The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation first considered using VTG on 13 Jan 2016, recommended it to the Government on the same day, and Cameron announced it as the choice on 27 Jan 2016. There was no investigation at all!

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@stoughton_p Thank you; I enjoyed your blog. Especially interested in the 1911 drawing. I'm a great admirer of your photos of VTG.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

Politicians' incompetence and stubbornness have turned the well-intentioned Holocaust memorial project into a fiasco. The 1900 Act exists precisely to protect Victoria Tower Gardens from the sort of ill-considered building project now proposed, and should not be repealed.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@Peston @ITV Giving party members the opportunity to foist another extremist on us as PM is the fundamental problem, not bad actors. Why would any responsible party continue such a dangerous and undemocratic system?

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

Govt is wasting yet more public money appealing against the very clear judgment that the proposed Holocaust Memorial is illegal under the 1900 Act protecting Victoria Tower Gardens. Meanwhile it's done nothing about its 2015 promise of an endowment fund for Holocaust education.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@heald_j @SOCSheila @oldlondonnow @britishmuseum @LondonTopSoc @SocAntiquaries The publisher wanted something different from the original.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

SAVE STATEMENT: Parliament’s Restoration & Renewal Sponsor Body to be wound up: https://t.co/gePTH4VsM0

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@maggih Only minor differences (other than the layout, as it's been reset in a slightly smaller size). A few small changes to the text and three extra images.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

New edition of London Bridge and its Houses, c.1209-1761 out on 15 August. Only 9 days left to get it pre-publication for £23.99 instead of £29.99. #OldLondonBridge #Londonhistory. https://t.co/mVt1FhW1hs

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@NatParkCityFdn @LondonNPC @LDN_environment @londoncouncils @LdnNPC_Schools @LondonLEEF @SalzburgGlobal @WUParks @standardnews @ParksforLondon @LI_London_ Thanks. I support your objectives. But what is the point of the designation if you can build on open spaces unnecessarily and still qualify for it? As for the Mayor, he could have stood up for ordinary Londoners and defended Victoria Tower Gardens against the Government.

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@NatParkCityFdn @LondonNPC @LDN_environment @londoncouncils @LdnNPC_Schools @LondonLEEF @SalzburgGlobal @WUParks @standardnews @ParksforLondon @LI_London_ The first priority of being a national park city must be that open spaces remain open; otherwise nothing is possible. Listing as a supporter the Mayor, who supports building on open spaces, discredits what would be a valuable initiative. Happy to discuss - [email protected]

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

Cover of the new edition of London Bridge and its Houses, c.1209-1761, showing a reconstruction of the bridge in about 1250. Out on 15 Aug. #OldLondonBridge. #LondonHistory.

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

On 15 July Dr Philip Salmon from our @TheVictCommons project will be joining @ktrcarpenter & Dr Dorian Gerhold to discuss the coronation banquet of George IV, which took place in Westminster Hall in 1821.
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Sign up to this online event here: https://t.co/oTvwko4dvP

[Dorian Gerhold @DorianGerhold]

@NickHowes13 Sounds (and looks) fascinating. I'd be interested to hear more about your work creating a 3D model. Dorian ([email protected])