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John Boughton\u2019s talk will cover the early history of public housing from the almshouses and parish housing of pre-industrial times to the council housing of the interwar period. As the Industrial Revolution came to transform Britain\u2019s economy and society and democratic forces grew, Victorian elites came slowly to accept the inevitability of state intervention in housing.<\/p>\n

John will discuss the forces that shaped council housing in the later nineteenth century and the ideals motivating housing reformers. He\u2019ll look at how council housing developed before the First World War and the crucial impact of the War itself in creating the ideals and forms of mass public housing that emerged in the interwar period. He\u2019ll conclude with a brief examination of how the form and politics of council housing evolved in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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Anita Street (built as Sanitary Street) and the Royal Victoria Dwellings – probably the oldest purpose-built social housing still occupied as social housing – built by Manchester City Council in the 1890s. \u00a9 John Boughton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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