About Me
I care a lot about buildings. It’s been a long lasting love affair, carefully fostered by my parents who often took me to historic buildings as a child and waited for the subconscious signalling to kick in.
Recently, I graduated from Durham University with an undergraduate degree in History. I made sure to tailor this degree to architecture and the built environment as much as possible and fortunately I found myself in the perfect place to do so.
Since graduating, I have drifted back (slowly at first and then headlong) to my dissertation topic; English-Irish social relations as told by architecture. Somewhere in the midst of my dissertation chaos, during midnight writing sessions and late night library trips, I found a calm space whilst researching vernacular architecture. In fact, I even caught myself enjoying writing about the enchanting history of Irish cabins - and examining the less kind early modern English perceptions of them, the inaccuracy of which provided for some amusing reading. So, whilst taking an official ‘breather’ after graduating (also known as a year out), I indulged this interest. I attended webinars on the topic, travelled to conservation workshops and scoured youtube for any interesting tours of Irish cabins. The stepping stones led me here, to create a blog as an outlet for this interest. It needed somewhere to go really, a filing cabinet for my thoughts that hopefully you, reader, can enjoy too.