Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars

Olechnowicz, Andrzej

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“…2b). This was particularly in the form of suburban semi-detached properties (47% of identifiable new planning applications) rather than the traditional terraced housing commonly associated with industrial workforces in the region (cf., Olechnowicz 1997). "Villas" (a term poorly defined in the documentary sources) and bungalows comprised another 14% of the new housing constructed.…”

Section: Bishop Auckland In Its Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Material Responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England

Petts

O'Donnell

Armstrong³

2021

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s was a global economic crisis, yet to understand its impacts in material terms, it is necessary to recognize that they were situated within specific local and regional contexts. This article, drawing on the work of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Landscapes of the Great Depression in the North East project, explores the impacts and responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England through an exploration of the materiality of a series of different responses to the crisis, as well as wider consideration of its impact on the landscape. By moving beyond an individual site, and instead looking at a range of interventions at site and landscape scale it shows the potential of taking a more holistic and comparative approach to exploring the impact of the Great Depression and offers an approach that might be used to better understand economic crises in other situations and contexts.

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Section: Bishop Auckland In Its Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Material Responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England

Petts

O'Donnell

Armstrong³

2021

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…On the Becontree Estate, for example, domestic gardens were well tended by and generally popular with working class tenants, most of whom had never possessed one before. 45 Furthermore, Rebecca Preston has shown that suburban gardens on interwar speculative and municipal estates were represented in various media as creating a shared English identity embracing modernity alongside older notions of 'home' and 'country'.…”

Section: The Place Of Leisure In the Historiography Of Suburban Londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leisure in London's Suburbs, 1880–1939

Georgiou

2014

The London Journal

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“…It was argued that the poor leisure facilities that the new estates had to offer created the potential for greater social unrest and the formation of 'little Moscows'. 70 Social scientists, from both the left and the right, were keen to establish how suburbanisation of working-class families had affected community relations and leisure patterns. The new socialisation and alienation of working-class families in the new estates, combined with the emergence of extreme political movements was, for many researchers, a potentially dangerous cocktail.…”

Section: The Imperial Citizen 1900-1918mentioning

confidence: 99%