First published in 1986, for the second edition of this text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a century and a half of developments in housing
Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a century and a half of developments in housing conditions both urban and rural, public and private, and tracing the evolution of mass housing through by-law terraces, back-to-backs and the tower block to the low-rise, high-density estates of the 1980s.
Preface. Acknowledgements. Preface to the Second Edition. Part I:
18151850
1. People and Houses
2. The Cottage Homes of England
3. The Housing
of the Urban Working Classes
4. Middle-Class Housing Part II: 18501914
5.
Housing the Labourer
6. Housing the Multitude
7. Housing the Suburbans Part
III: 19181985
8. Council Housing 19181939
9. Speculative Housing 19181939
10. Public and Private Housing 19451985
11. Retrospect and Prospect. Notes
and References. Index.
John Burnett (19252006) was Professor of Social History at Brunel University. His research was concerned with the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. He was the author of Plenty and Want (1966), A History of the Cost of Living (1969), A Social History of Housing, 1815-1985 (1986), Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (1999) and England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present (2004). With David Vincent and David Mayall, he published the three-volume annotated bibliography, The Autobiography of the Working Class (1984-1989).
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