madeline odent
chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)
- hey fellow immigrants, what incalculable damage have YOU done to the UK? Personally I took an eligible bachelor off the marriage mart and then got a corgi
- Some weeks ago, Mansfield College Oxford announced plans to tear down nearly half their buildings, and a bunch of you asked what I thought, so here’s the thread: yes good actually and so is Magdalen tearing down the Waynflete, too. this building conservator is in favour! 🧵
- 40-odd years ago, my mum stepped away from academia to work and support my dad as he earned his PhD. And today, the university he is retiring from is awarding her an honorary doctorate, which I think is pretty cool.
- ay
- cardinals raw dogging? what is this, the renaissance?
- Baby’s first book launch! Really looking forward to reading Prof Hicks’ new book: I’m particularly interested in the concept of how we determine what monuments are and are not, let alone how we handle them after that.
- nah you need the Australians for that
- Reposted by madeline odentNew FoFC churches: an update from our Director, Rachel Morley. Following on from Rachel’s previous update, in the financial year 2025-6, we are also looking forward to taking seven redundant churches into our care.
- okay well sure yes headcanon accepted
- and tonight I am going to the panel discussion for @profdanhicks.bsky.social new book, Every Monument Will Fall! I’m very excited, it promises to be quite interesting