At the beginning of February Emma Jackson, Vic Seidler and I spent three fascinating days in Berlin developing links with the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ) at Humboldt University. The trip aimed to build on Emma’s contacts at Humboldt where she had been a visiting researcher.   It was also an opportunity to link … More CUCR in Berlin by Les Back

I use London’s old mulberry trees as signposts to a past that has often been buried under cycles of urban and social transformation over the past 400 years. The Morus Londinium project I set up in 2016 with the Conservation Foundation and 2-year Heritage Lottery funding has been documenting, mapping and researching these unique trees. … More Discover Lewisham’s history through its Veteran Mulberry trees by Peter Coles