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Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters written by Octavia Hill and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia Hill (1838-1912) is today best remembered as one of the founders of the National Trust. However, her involvement in education and social reform, and particularly housing, was a large part of her work. Shocked at the poverty and overcrowding she found in London slums, she began to acquire and improve properties which would restore the tenants' dignity and self-respect. She organized a team of volunteer 'district visitors' to help the residents, and especially children, to achieve a better quality of life, including the provision of open spaces, training and recreational amenities. She was considerably influenced by Rev. F.D. Maurice, theologian and social worker, whose son, the editor of this work, married Octavia's sister Emily. The letters from which the 'life' is compiled show her extraordinary ability as an organiser, her humanity, and how much effort she put into her various activities, often overworking until she became ill.

Octavia Hill

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by Octavia Hill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Octavia Hill

Author : Peter Clayton
Publisher : Pitkin Unichrome, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781841653983
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by Peter Clayton and published by Pitkin Unichrome, Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill

Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903427538
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by Gillian Darley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Geoconservation

Author : Cynthia V. Burek
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392540
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The History of Geoconservation written by Cynthia V. Burek and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to describe the history of geoconservation. It draws on experience from the UK, Europe and further afield, to explore topics including: what is geoconservation; where, when and how did it start; who was responsible; and how has it differed across the world? Geological and geomorphological features, processes, sites and specimens, provide a resource of immense scientific and educational importance. They also form the foundation for the varied and spectacular landscapes that help define national and local identity as well as many of the great tourism destinations. Mankind's activities, including contributing to enhanced climate change, pose many threats to this resource: the importance of safeguarding and managing it for future generations is now widely accepted as part of sustainable development. Geoconservation is an established and growing activity across the world, with more participants and a greater profile than ever before. This volume highlights a history of challenges, set-backs, successes and visionary individuals and provides a sound basis for taking geoconservation into the future.

Octavia Hill

Author : Emily S. Maurice
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315469073
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by Emily S. Maurice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia Hill was a key figure in the open spaces and housing movement and one of the founders of the National Trust. Her legacy continues today in the form of many active bodies such as the modern National Trust, the Open Spaces Society and the Family Welfare Association. First published in 1928, this work is a collection of Octavia Hill’s early letters, edited by her sister Emily Southwood Maurice. The letters throw considerable light on the difficulties she encountered in the tenements and how she first realised the principles on which she would later act. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare and poverty.

Octavia Hill

Author : William Thomson Hill
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by William Thomson Hill and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1956 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Octavia's Hill

Author : Margaret Dickson
Publisher : Berkley Books
ISBN 13 : 9780425080825
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Octavia's Hill written by Margaret Dickson and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 1985-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eternal Slum

Author : Anthony S. Wohl
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412822815
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Slum written by Anthony S. Wohl and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the twentieth century. The Eternal Slum is the first full-length examination of working-class housing issues in a British town. The city investigated not only provided the context for the development of a national policy but also, in scale and variety of response, stood in the vanguard of housing reform. The failure of traditional methods of social amelioration in mid-century, the mounting storm of public protest, the efforts of individual philanthropists, and then the gradual formulation and application of new remedies, constituted a major theme: the need for municipal enterprise and state intervention. Meanwhile, the concept of overcrowding, never precisely defined in law but based on middle-class notions of decency and privacy, slowly gave way to the positive idea of adequate living space, with comfort, as much as health or morals, the criterion. Not just dwellings but people were at issue. There is little evidence in this period of the attitude of the worker himself to his housing. Wohl has extensively researched local archives and, in particular, drawn on the vestry reports which have been relatively neglected. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book is the definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and suggests what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions. This important study will be of interest to social historians, British historians, urban planners, and those interested in how social policies developed in previous eras.

Octavia Hill

Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher : Constable Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill written by Gillian Darley and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia Hill was the 9th of eleven children in a family of no rank. With no formal education but an incessant desire to help the poorest in London she became one of the most influential women of the Victorian era. Today she is remembered chiefly as one of the founders of the National Trust.

Women in the Housing Service

Author : Marion Brion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134893582
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Housing Service written by Marion Brion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contribution of women to the development of housing management in the 20th century. It outlines tactics and strategies of organization and factors which have seemed to help or hinder women's participation in housing. Evidence from statistical sources, historical documents and personal interviews is also assessed. Throughout the discussion, key issues are linked to current trends in the 1990s, making this volume suitable as a source of reference for students and researchers in housing and related fields.

Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers 1872-1911

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher : Kyrle Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers 1872-1911 written by Octavia Hill and published by Kyrle Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henrietta Barnett, of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Author : Micky Watkins
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800317484
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Henrietta Barnett, of Hampstead Garden Suburb written by Micky Watkins and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feminist social reformer Henrietta Barnett (1851-1936) is best known as the moving spirit behind the creation of London's Hampstead Garden Suburb. Yet, as Micky Watkins shows in this lively biography, the Suburb was only the final achievement of a long and varied career of social engagement, much of it spent among the worst slums of London's East End. Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, Walter Crane, Beatrice Webb, Arnold Toynbee and Herbert Spencer, as well as innumerable East Enders - often riotously immune to attempts at their 'improvement' - people this vivid account.A woman of immense energy, Henrietta's role in both Toynbee Hall and the Whitechapel Art Gallery was central to their foundation and continued success, and she spent the latter half of her life in realising her dream project of building Hampstead Garden Suburb.Henrietta's work in town planning won the admiration of the American feminist Jane Addams, and in the USA she was feted by Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie and John Rockefeller. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Micky Watkins traces Henrietta's ground-breaking achievement in building in North London the utopian Hampstead Garden Suburb to house all classes and conditions of people, as an antidote to the East End slums. Her Suburb has influenced town planning all over the world.

Homes of the London Poor

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Homes of the London Poor written by Octavia Hill and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entanglements of Power

Author : Ronan Paddison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134668961
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Entanglements of Power written by Ronan Paddison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.

Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870–1950

Author : Elizabeth Darling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872206
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870–1950 written by Elizabeth Darling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural, urban, design, labour, and social history approach the topic through case studies of often neglected organisations, individuals, practices and initiatives. Included are East End rent collectors, tenants, diarists and correspondents, the All-Europe House, the Women's Co-operative Guild, the Housewives Committee of the Council of Industrial Design, provincial and metropolitan exhibitors, and activists of varying kinds. Moving beyond the study of buildings and their designers, the volume considers the making of space in its broadest sense, from the production of discourses to the consumption of domestic appliances and the performance of roles as diverse as social reformers, committee members and homemakers. It thereby demonstrates that women made a significant contribution to the creation of modern built environments in both public and private spheres.

Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists

Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061519
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists written by Dewey W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.