... ends by returning to Katharine Buildings, Whitechapel, and Harkness’s time spent there researching A City Girl. Drawing on the correspondence and record books of Ella Pycroft, the resident lady rent collector, and Harkness’s cousin Beatrice Potter Webb, this chapter presents a counter...

...This chapter summarizes the findings of the book and looks ahead to the Restoration settlement. It emphasizes the ways in which Westminster was shaped by the succession of executive governments in its midst, who appropriated its buildings and spaces in a newly exclusive manner and made Westminster...

...With greater longevity and funding than their predecessors, radicals were able to move beyond ‘spaces of making do’. This chapter examines how Owenite socialists, Chartists, trades unions and the other social movements that emerged in the 1830s hired or constructed detached buildings for their sole...

... culture buildings class race literature Empires are underpinned by conceits. Of these, none is more potent than the belief in the cultural and intellectual superiority of the dominant people. ¹ This conviction is at one and the same time explanatory, justificatory and instrumental...

... and maintain some 6500 homes in Georgian and Victorian ‘street properties’ purchased by the council from private owners, including many listed buildings. The chapter details the huge damage inflicted by the contractors on the housing and the devastating effect this had on residents’ lives. A second section...

... the status change of the buildings from IDP shelters into private buildings, they continue to be seen as the IDP buildings. Their categorization as such impacts the ways in which the residents are imagined by those on the outside. The authors discuss the clashing temporalities of past lives...

...As imperial authority was established, towns and cities grew and spread into the interior of continents. The morphology of such urban settlements was embedded in economic, social and racial requirements, in zoning and in the creation of buildings that would be climatically comfortable. This chapter...

...The British Empire contributed greatly to the globalising of western buildings, towns and cities across the world. The requirements of security necessitated the construction of forts and barracks everywhere, while the need for mobility and ceremonial led to the use of large numbers of tents...

... Saint Andrew school buildings welfare provision Education Act 1944 Nature Study Union BBC film use of in schools Johnson Walter Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals school houses wireless use of in schools School Journey Association evacuation wartime ex pupils religious...