Municipal Dreams
The history of council housing
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The Brandon Estate, Southwark II: ‘It was going to be paradise’
The Brandon Estate was a concrete expression of the London County Council’s desire to build a better world. It’s telling that, in these more cynical or simply more jaded times, I hesitated in writing that sentence but it’s fact, not hyperbo...
The Brandon Estate, Southwark I: ‘New and dramatic’
The Brandon Estate in Southwark is ‘one of the most novel’ of the London County Council’s housing schemes. (1) There’s a lot to talk about – its visual presence, path-breaking high-rise, pioneering mixed development and, conversely, an earl...
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. The collection comprises the largest discrete library dedicated to housing and planning. The museum is located...
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. As noted, it was probably Chris’s judgement in the book (which I endorse) that council housin...
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 Work...
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I am the author of 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso, 2019) and 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books, 2023).
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