William Aslet

Researcher in Architectural History. Associate @WorcCollegeOx. Editor of @WalpoleSociety annual volume. I work on C18th buildings. More often on Instagram.

[William Aslet @Waslet]

Despite the many reasonable objections to the contrary, @CityWestminster still pursuing their misguided plan to get rid of their historic gas lamps. Here’s something I wrote on them earlier in the year. Sadly, they have already started to disappear

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

London‘s oldest streetlamps were designed to be beautiful as well as useful – so why is Westminster Council trying to remove them? https://t.co/cfPOs2DhG5

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

Looking up in the Radcliffe Camera

[𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗖 ² @mattcrotts]

Glad this is being discussed.
We have lost so much

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

C17th Gothick

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

‘Mind your head’? Seriously? Too soon.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year. On 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that the painting was 'as good as anything I have done.'

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

Splendid streetware! An electrical distribution cabinet of 1926.

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

There's vaulting, and then there's vaulting. The ante-chapel to the Order of the Thistle Chapel in the High Kirk of St Giles, Edinburgh. Commissioned by Edward VII in 1906, it was the work of Robert Lorimer, 1909-10. Unsurprisingly, he received a knighthood for it. 1/3

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Incredible detail in Portrait of a Woman by William Larkin, painted between 1615–1619.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Do you, Sir John, feel yourself to be arbitrary and irrelevant?”

Sir John Betjeman

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

For anyone who missed the inaugural Colvin Lecture, here’s Professor Anthony Geraghty https://t.co/m0LHUe5eOf via @YouTube

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

⁦Delighted by this ⁦@chilternrailway⁩ toilet tribute to Disraeli

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Calling all classicists in or near Cambridge: the 2nd hand department of Heffers has for sale a complete New Pauly and Cambridge Ancient History. Only recently come in

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

Soldier, spy, playwright, courtier — and architect of Blenheim Palace; Sir John Vanbrugh lived several lives in one. @Waslet reviews a lively new biography captures the drama behind the drama

https://t.co/c5BM0pVrq3

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

At last an AI tool I can get behind

“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”

https://t.co/23Ay7MD4ka

[Grizzlegutweed the Bear @Grizzlegutweed1]

The headstone of Hannah Twynnoy the first English woman killed by a tiger- 1703- Malmesbury

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

Such sad news. An outstanding historian & a wonderful man; he will be terribly missed. ברוך דיין האמת https://t.co/6nHr70o7lX

[AntiquesTradeGazette @ATG_Editorial]

UK institution sought for 18th century Bouchardon sculpture being sold by Scottish Highland council:
https://t.co/dFjTO0H8Ay

[Ian Duhig FRSL @ianduhig]

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

😯 ✨St John’s Court in Malmesbury: a 17th-century almshouse wrapped around a stunning 12th-century doorway from a former chapel. One of the most characterful gables in the country.

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

A church by Pugin’s father