New edition of Lynsey Hanley's ground-breaking Estates, with a new introduction from the author.
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- 2023
- 2008
Estates : an intimate history
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Writing with passion, humour, and a sense of history, Lynsey Hanley recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s