Author: Enid Gauldie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000968332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies – and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Cruel Habitations
Author: Enid Gauldie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000968332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies – and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000968332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies – and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Cruel Habitations
Author: Kate Charles
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 1405523468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece that neither of them will ever forget. When Jacquie's father dies, she discovers he has split everything equally with her sister, whom no one has seen for eleven years. And Jacquie, desperate for the money, has no choice but to try to trace her. It is a journey that takes her to Westmead, and stirs old emotions that will once more put lives in danger . . .
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 1405523468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece that neither of them will ever forget. When Jacquie's father dies, she discovers he has split everything equally with her sister, whom no one has seen for eleven years. And Jacquie, desperate for the money, has no choice but to try to trace her. It is a journey that takes her to Westmead, and stirs old emotions that will once more put lives in danger . . .
Cruel Habitations
Author: Enid Gauldie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"The book deals with the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies; and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"The book deals with the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies; and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform."--Page 4 of cover.
Cruel Habitations a Pbp
Author: Kate Charles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784444406857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784444406857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cruel Habitations
Author: Enid Gauldie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781003450672
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies - and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781003450672
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies - and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
The Young scholar
The British Working Class 1832-1940
Author: Andrew August
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317877969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317877969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.
Cruel Habitations a Special
Author: Kate Charles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784444406864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784444406864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Eternal Slum
Author: Anthony Wohl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135130402X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the twentieth century. The Eternal Slum is the first full-length examination of working-class housing issues in a British town. The city investigated not only provided the context for the development of a national policy but also, in scale and variety of response, stood in the vanguard of housing reform. The failure of traditional methods of social amelioration in mid-century, the mounting storm of public protest, the efforts of individual philanthropists, and then the gradual formulation and application of new remedies, constituted a major theme: the need for municipal enterprise and state intervention. Meanwhile, the concept of overcrowding, never precisely defined in law but based on middle-class notions of decency and privacy, slowly gave way to the positive idea of adequate living space, with comfort, as much as health or morals, the criterion.Not just dwellings but people were at issue. There is little evidence in this period of the attitude of the worker himself to his housing. Wohl has extensively researched local archives and, in particular, drawn on the vestry reports which have been relatively neglected. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book is the definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and suggests what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions. This important study will be of interest to social historians, British historians, urban planners, and those interested in how social policies developed in previous eras.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135130402X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the twentieth century. The Eternal Slum is the first full-length examination of working-class housing issues in a British town. The city investigated not only provided the context for the development of a national policy but also, in scale and variety of response, stood in the vanguard of housing reform. The failure of traditional methods of social amelioration in mid-century, the mounting storm of public protest, the efforts of individual philanthropists, and then the gradual formulation and application of new remedies, constituted a major theme: the need for municipal enterprise and state intervention. Meanwhile, the concept of overcrowding, never precisely defined in law but based on middle-class notions of decency and privacy, slowly gave way to the positive idea of adequate living space, with comfort, as much as health or morals, the criterion.Not just dwellings but people were at issue. There is little evidence in this period of the attitude of the worker himself to his housing. Wohl has extensively researched local archives and, in particular, drawn on the vestry reports which have been relatively neglected. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book is the definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and suggests what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions. This important study will be of interest to social historians, British historians, urban planners, and those interested in how social policies developed in previous eras.