Overview
- Demonstrates how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and social developments, came to bear on a working-class community
- Examines the rise and fall of the Aylesbury Estate from the estate’s ambitious inception until the first of its blocks were pulled down
- Sheds light on a period rarely dealt with by historians of council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the years before or after the 1979 watershed
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History (PSOH)
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This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police officers and architects. What emerges is not a simple story of definitive failures, but one of texture and complexity, struggle and accord, family and friends, and of rapidly changing circumstances. The study spans the years 1967 to 2010 – from the estate’s ambitious inception until the first of its blocks were pulled down. It is a period rarely dealt with by historians of council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the years before or after the 1979 watershed. As such, it demonstrates how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and social developments, came to bear on a working-class community – for good and, more especially, for ill.
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Book Title: London's Aylesbury Estate
Book Subtitle: An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle'
Authors: Michael Romyn
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51477-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51476-1Published: 19 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51479-2Published: 20 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51477-8Published: 18 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Oral History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Urban History