Campaigns for Decent Housing Past and Present
Speaker Duncan Bowie
2pm, 21st November 2015
Venue Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green
Duncan Bowie will give a talk on radical and socialist campaigns for decent housing, land nationalisation and town planning in the 19th century and seek to relate them to the current housing crisis and contemporary struggles. Duncan’s book, ‘The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning: From Puritan Colonies to Garden Cities’ is to be published by Ashgate later this year. Duncan is a member of the SHS committee and of the committee of the London Labour Housing Group. He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster. He is the author of SHS OP No 34, Roots of the British Socialist Movement.
Free to attend; all welcome.
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