20th June 2024
John Wyver writes: welcome to the fifth Postcard (with two more scheduled) from my and my wife Clare Paterson's recent mid-west road trip, in this case embracing our visits, for two nights in each city, to Indianapolis and St Louis.
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16th June 2024
John Wyver writes: with apologies for the hiatus in delivering these, welcome to the fourth Postcard from the American road trip that my wife Clare Paterson and I recently took across the mid-west. The first three Postcards are here,
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31st May 2024
John Wyver writes: We are on the road! Having left Chicago, we drove to Fort Wayne and Sidney, Ohio (day one), on to Columbus, Ohio (day two) and then to Columbus, Indiana (day three). Not that it’s been entirely great,
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26th May 2024
John Wyver writes: A second missive from the mid-West, following on from Postcard from Chicago, part one. And let me begin with a tale of two campuses (campi?). One morning this past I explored the low-level lay-out of the
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26th May 2024
John Wyver writes: Although posts of this kind are not directly related to the company's operations, I occasionally scratch out accounts of my travels and other doings. In this case, my wife Clare and I are now on a long-planned
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6th April 2024
John Wyver writes: In November the distinguished art historian Lynda Nead (link to her page at Birkbeck, where she is now Emerita Professor), who is also a friend, gave the prestigious Paul Mellon Lectures at the V&A. In four
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2nd April 2024
John Wyver writes: On the way to New Haven for a screening and panel at Yale (so, yes, look out for another Postcard from there), I spent a busy day and a half in New York. These was a time
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8th November 2021
John Wyver writes: I'm pleased that I seem to have re-started regular Sunday links, and now my aim is to return to posting more regularly on topics that I've mused about before, including television and film,
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24th June 2021
John Wyver writes: First broadcast just over a fortnight ago, Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain has now taken its place on BBC iPlayer where (for licence fee payers in the
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9th June 2021
John Wyver writes: I know that posting comments to blog posts is so late noughties, and as a consequence no-one does it anymore, but I did want to try this as an experiment - and I'm very grateful to those
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