By Sara Bright Sixteen years ago, a single policy decision set about dismantling one of the most vibrant strands of English state education. The English…
By Sara Bright A School That Outlived Bombs, Centuries, and Its Own Demolition There is a particular quality to institutions that have survived their own…
By Sara Bright What is one of the earliest subjects in art – as well one of the most censored? The breast. First carved onto…
By Sara Bright In a candlelit room at Sennowe Park, the Edwardian country house in Norfolk that has been home to the Temple-Richards family for…
By Sara Bright When Battersea Power Station reopened on 14 October 2022, it ended nearly four decades of dereliction, failed schemes, and engineering dread. The…
By Sara Bright Something strange happens in the early weeks of a new attraction. You are drawn to someone, perhaps even infatuated, and then –…
By Sara Bright On 3 March 1982, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Barbican Centre and called it “one of the wonders of the modern world.”…
By Sara Bright You are mid-conversation at a bar in Shoreditch, laughing at something they have said, when it happens. The shift is instantaneous and…
By Sara Bright When Ellen van Loon first walked the derelict site of Manchester’s former Granada television studios in 2015, she had ten days to…
By Sara Bright Sleep has become a cultural obsession. We track our REM cycles on smartwatches, invest in weighted blankets, and ritualise bedtime routines as…