External: Lecture Series on Social Housing in the UK 1840-1990

The British Architectural Library Trust has made available online its 2024 lecture series, Social Housing in the United Kingdom 1840-1990


The four lectures are by Rebecca Preston, Andrew Saint, Simon Pepper and Mark Swenarton.

  1. Rebecca Preston - “All is Solid Here”: Pioneer Model Housing in London 1840-1880

  2. Andrew Saint - The Origins of British Public Housing 1890-1914

  3. Simon Pepper - Social Housing in Britain between the Wars

  4. Mark Swenarton - The Fall and Rise of the Street in Postwar British Housing 1945-1979

Also available on the website are the lectures from the two earlier series of BALT lectures:

  1. Andrea Palladio (2022)

  2. British Architecture 1900-1940 (2023).

https://thebaltrust.org/lectures-2024/

Photo: Patrick Hodgkinson, Brunswick Centre, London (Martin Charles/RIBA Collections)

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