Publications

(book) Boom Cities, Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain (Oxford University Press)
(book) The Modern British City ed. Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith (under contract with Lund Humphries) publication 2025. My chapter is titled ‘Scrambled Cities: Ironbridge, Middlesbrough and Stoke-on-Trent’, and I am co-author with Simon Gunn of the introduction 'From the Victorian to the Modern City'.
(book chapter) ‘Healthy Habitats; British Housing since 1900’ for volume 5 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain (ed. Miles Taylor and Laura Beers).
(book chapter) ‘England since 1974’, in The Oxford Illustrated History of England (Oxford, 2025) ed. William Whyte)
(book chapter) ‘Architecture and Sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation’ in forthcoming festschrift published by UCL Press.
(article) ‘Landscapes of Hope and Crisis: Dereliction, Environment, and Leisure in 1970s Britain’, Journal of British Studies , 62.4 (2023), pp. 988-1010, Doi:10.1017/jbr.2023.7 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/landscapes-of-hope-and-crisis-dereliction-environment-and-leisure-in-britain-during-the-long-1970s/EF0A9F821C8D6C4FC1374501E5590868
(article) ‘Action For Cities: The Thatcher Government and Inner City Policy’, Urban History (2020): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/action-for-cities-the-thatcher-government-and-innercity-policy/C479FD0A7B1C821199F4EAD302F19BBE#
(article) ‘The Lost World of the British Leisure Centre’, History Workshop Journal (2019): https://academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbz007/5519070

(article) ‘The Inner City Crisis and the End of Urban Modernism in 1970s Britain’, Twentieth Century British History, 24.7 (2016), pp. 578-598: https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/article/27/4/578/2525297
( article) ‘Central Government and Town Centre Redevelopment in Britain, 1959-1966’, Historical Journal, 58.1 (2015), pp. 217-244: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X14000077
(article) ‘Graeme Shankland. A Sixties Architect-Planner and Left-Wing Political Culture’, Architectural History, 12 (2014), pp. 393-422: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00001477
(article) ‘Robinson College and the Twilight of a Collegiate Modernism, 1974-1981’, Architectural History (2012), pp. 369-402. Winner of the Society of Architectural Historian’s 2011 Hawksmoor Medal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00000150
( article/ edited volume) ‘A Strange Brutalist Primitive Hut: Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis’ Senior Combination Room, Cambridge’, Twentieth Century Architecture 11: Oxford and Cambridge, ed. Alan Powers, Elain Harwood and Otto Saumarez Smith (London: The Twentieth Century Society, 2013) pp. 150-161: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24644446
(book) Barbican: Life, History, Architecture, ed. Jane Alison and Anna Ferrari (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2014)
(exhibition brochure) Concrete Dreams celebrating the history, heritage and significance of the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hal, and Purcell Room (London: Southbank Centre, 2018): https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/concrete-dreams-celebrating-brutalist-buildings-southbank-centre