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Housing

Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham
Victorian

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know

At dinner, St Marylebone Workhouse, London, c1901 (1903)
Victorian

The rise and fall of the workhouse

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)
General Modern

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day

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Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet
Georgian

Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
Victorian

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home

Osborne House from terrace.
Victorian

Inside Osborne: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s island residence

Falkner Street, Liverpool in the 1960s. A house on this road was the star of a 2018 BBC series. Image by Nick Hedges
Victorian

David Olusoga on house histories: “Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies”

Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England. (Photo by Getty Images)
Elizabethan

The house that Bess built: the secrets of Hardwick Hall

In 1945 there were two million more ‘potential’ households than actual homes, in part exacerbated by the wartime damage to housing stock (Coventry, for example, lost one third of its homes in the Blitz). Here, displaced people in east London wait on the street. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Victorian

A history of homelessness

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Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)
Second World War

Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda

A councillor and architects discuss plans for the Moss Heights development in Glasgow, 1953. Proponents of high-rise flats believed that they would provide
20th Century

The Library Have high-rises ever been the answer to our housing woes?

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)
Tudor

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

A young couple from the 1950s pouring milk for a baby sat in a popular Formica-branded baby chair. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)
20th Century

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home

Roman ruins in Ancient Ostia with the tenements of Serapide
Roman

Feature Five facts about Roman insulae

A London slum family stood in a street with all their possessions following eviction, c1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Victorian

Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

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