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Estates

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Estates

By Lynsey Hanley

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About the book

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends i...Show more

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9781783783823

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2017

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Estates

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