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Cycling for freedom during coronavirus

During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.

July 15, 2020 in Glasgow, Psychogeography.
NHS rainbow paintings in a chemist window

Plague and coronavirus: Bring out your dead, then it’s revolution time

The third and final instalment exploring today’s coronavirus crisis and comparing it with the historical documentary fiction of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.

May 25, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London, Scotland.
McLennan Arch, Glasgow Green

The hangman’s mementos

A mysterious pair of boots and one of England’s most prolific hangman create an intriguing Glasgow mystery.

May 5, 2020 in Glasgow, History, Scotland.
Engraving of a two women lying dead on city street, one with baby, next to cross. In the background, a cart of bodies is pulled down the street.

London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: city lockdown and streets of suffering

We explore more similarities and differences between the coronavirus of 2020 and the plague of 17th century London. City lockdown, silence and noise in the streets, wild rumours and pandemic inequality.

April 13, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London.
Engraving of a two women lying dead on city street, one with baby, next to cross. In the background, a cart of bodies is pulled down the street.

London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: early days and lockdown

Contagion, fear, fake news and quackery. There are striking similarities between today’s crisis and the Great Plague of London centuries ago. Has anything changed?

March 24, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London.
Positano, Amalfi Coast

Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019

From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.

December 10, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland, Travel.
3D visualisation of Bruce Report: blocks of buildings, green spaces and bridge over river

Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost

Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.

October 23, 2019 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography.
Monk crossing a courtyard in front of colourful Bhutanese dzong or monastery decoration

In search of happiness – Bhutan to Glasgow

Do you want to be happy? Are you on a journey? The search for happiness and wellbeing has turned into lifestyle aspiration. But do we really want to be happy in the way we think we do?

July 10, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland, Travel.
Display including fake bloodied leg, skull, dusty old books and lace netting

Finding our ghosts: at a Victorian séance

Finding ghosts and spirits at a Victorian séance in one of Britian’s oldest music halls.

November 7, 2018 in Glasgow, History, Scotland.
Image of the first international football match between Scotland and England

Why football IS coming home…to Glasgow

Celebrating new English football, drunken tales of the Tartan Army and looking forward to a football homecoming to Glasgow in 2020.

July 12, 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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