04 Sunday Dec 2016
Posted in Housing
I was interviewed this week by N Quentin Woolf for the Londonist. It’s a wide-ranging conversation around council housing, its history and the controversies which surround it. You can find the podcast here:
http://londonist.com/london/housing/londonist-out-loud-and-he-lives-in-a-council-flat
stories from our past.
Leverhulme Funded Project at University of Exeter: Adopting a New Methodological Approach to Early Modern Women's Work
A Private History of a Public City
acting as a knowledge broker towards London's housing crisis, going on a search for alternatives, get in touch londonshousing@gmail.com
Research and writings on the Great Reset
A private collection of ephemera from or related to the German Democratic Republic
Reports from the life of a city, from 1951 to now, compiled by David Secombe
a network for understanding yesterday's landscape today
A fine WordPress.com site
The place for progressive housing policy debate.
because I care about public housing and hate single aspect flats
News and events related to history and social action, especially in Battersea, Croydon, Kennington, Vauxhall & Wandsworth
From Bauhaus to Beinhaus
of a social historian
Busting myths about Council Housing by providing a platform for people's stories/experiences #CouncilHomesChat #SocialHousing
South East London History on Foot
Municipal Dreams 
Really enjoyed your podcast. Placed a link and publicised on my beestonweek.blogspot blog.
Thanks very much – and for the link. You never know how these things are going to come out so I’m glad it was OK.
you get a name check here from Dave Hill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/davehillblog/2016/dec/04/barking-and-dagenham-darren-rodwells-aspirational-working-class
“…so visually synonymous with the 30,000 homes of the famous Becontree estate, a huge public housing development, conceived, in the words of Municipal Dreams, “in the brief, post-Great War coupling of hope and fear. Homes fit for heroes and the concern that those very heroes might succumb to Bolshevism in 1919”.”
Thanks for the heads-up.
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