Category Archives: News & Press Coverage

Photographer Ruth Corney has published a book celebrating 20 years of photographing the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath … read more

A lockdown project on museums and heritage focused on Swimming: Images and Places, including two features on Thames swimming, drawn … read more

The BBC have covered a recent discussion on Twitter, which responded angrily to Speedo’s new ‘swimsuit guide’ for women. Swimming … read more

The Guardian has run a feature on the rise of chemical-free pools, with a mention of Downstream and the Victorian … read more

A large print edition of Bad Girls has been published by W.F Howes, under the Clipper Large Print imprint.… read more

It’s twenty years since Roger Deakin’s Waterlog was published, here Ashley Norris writes about the book’s legacy for iNews… read more

In 1952 Pat Seares, a ‘housewife from London’, was jailed at Holloway Prison because she’d shouted protests after a showing … read more

Peabody has acquired the site of HMP Holloway Prison and has announced its intention to build 1000 homes, of which … read more

The Isle of Thanet News has featured the Daisy Belle event at the Broadstairs Literary Festival, where I’ll be talking … read more

Last May I was lucky enough to swim with seals in the Scilly Isles, thanks to a trip organised by … read more

An interview in the Ham & High about the women who inspired Daisy Belle, ‘the story of a courageous Victorian … read more

The hearse arrives at City of London Cemetery

November 22, 2018

Edith Thompson, executed at Holloway Prison in 1923 … read more