Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees, appeared today on Robert Elms’s popular morning show on BBC Radio London for a long and fascinating discussion about street trees. Listen to the full interview here. Paul has already been invited back on the programme to talk about the Urban Tree Festival.
Virtual launch for London's Street Trees on 30 April
While we’re on lockdown we can’t have the usual launch events we’d normally have at places like Stanfords or Daunt’s in Hampstead (back soon, we hope), so on 30 April we’re having a virtual launch: same idea - talk by Paul with slideshow, opportunity to ask questions, special offer on the book; just via Zoom. Do come: you can sign up here for it…
The Hackney Citizen reviews London's Street Trees
In an excellent feature in Hackney’s online newspaper, Ellen Halliday interviews Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees (just published in a new, revised and expanded edition), and celebrates the borough’s street trees as ‘balm for a city in crisis’.
It's Nice That talks to Seats of London author Andrew Martin for a long feature on moquette
Cool style and design magazine It’s Nice That has run a long feature about London Transport moquette, talking to Seats of London author Andrew Martin and reproducing a rich and colourful array of patterns from down the ages.
Selvedge reviews Seats of London
The stylish fabrics and textiles magazine Selvedge reviews Seats of London in its March issue, number 93.
The 20th Century Society reviews Seats of London
The 20th Century Society reviewed Seats of London in its latest magazine and praised Andrew Martin’s ‘wittily written book’.
New magazine The Critic praises A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The first issue of new comment and polemic magazine The Critic devotes a double-page review by the renowned cricket writer Michael Henderson to Neville Cardus, in which he praises A Field of Tents and Eaving Colours as ‘a handsome introducton to Cardus’. ‘In the years ahead’, he concludes, ‘when our cricket is given increasingly to the T20 thrash and something called The Hundred, we shall revisit Cardus to restore our spirits, and very possibly to revive our souls.’
Seats of London featured in the Observer
The Art Gallery section of the Observer includes a striking moquette feature based on Seats of London.
Cat reads Seats of London
Mags the Norwegian forest cat, who features in Seats of London contemplating a pristine Routemaster moquette footstool crying out for claw-sharpening, seen here appraising the account of himself on page 81.
Andrew Martin signs copies of Seats of London at the London Transport Museum's Acton Depot open weekend
On Sunday 29 September Andrew Martin gave a well-attended talk on London moquette at the LT Museum’s Acton depot, during one of their open weekends, and then signed copies. Note the bespoke moquette waistcoat and baker boy’s cap in the background, and the small shoulder bag in classic Routemaster moquette for only £55, whose dimensions appear to have been designed perfectly for holding a single copy of Seats of London.