Alastair Campbell is well known at the moment for posting photographs of his ‘Tree of the Day’. ‘And I get home from taking a few shots of trees at the end of the road,’ he writes today on Instagram, ‘and look what turns up in the post. Excellent.’
Time Out features London's Street Trees' best lockdown-walk trees
Time Out - correction, In - has just published a beautiful photo-feature by Paul Wood on the most amazing street trees to see around the capital at the moment on your daily exercise-walk.
London's Street Trees now on BBC Sounds
Robert Elms’s interview with Paul Wood about London’s Street Trees is now on the BBC Sounds website.
Robert Elms talks street trees on Radio London with Paul Wood
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.’