A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country
The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month.
Municipal Dreams
The history of council housing
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Book Review – ‘Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses’
The publication of a new and revised edition of Chris Matthews’ fine book is a good reason to re-post this earlier blog originally posted in 2015.
The Canley Estate, Coventry: Building the Community
My thanks to Dr Ruth Cherrington for this follow-up post to her contribution on the origins of the Canley Estate last week. Ruth formerly ran the Club Historians website and is the author of Not Just Beer and Bingo: a Social History of Working Men’s Clubs
The Canley Estate, Coventry: ‘The Place Where I Grew Up’
I’m very pleased to feature another fine guest post (and would welcome others), this one from Dr Ruth Cherrington.
Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’
They called them ‘Thingoe’s Follies’ – the eight homes built on Stow Road in Ixworth, Suffolk, which formed the first council housing built (in 1894) in the English countryside.
Octavia Hill: ‘a life more noble’
A Life More Noble (Octavia, 2015)
The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 2: Failed Post-War Visions?
I’m delighted to feature this guest post by Gerry Mooney of the Open University of Scotland, a follow-up to last week’s post on the historical context of Glasgow’s postwar housing.
The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 1: Glasgow Housing in Historical Context
I’m delighted to feature this guest post by Gerry Mooney of the Open University of Scotland and its follow-up next week.
The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester II: ‘a victory for the people’
Last week we looked at the pre-war origins and development of the Saffron Lane Estate.
The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester I: ‘moving into paradise’
Back in the day, some people called the Saffron Lane Estate in Leicester ‘Candletown’.