Wallpaper and Housing
I am delighted to host this post from Zoë Hendon, Head of Museum Collections, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. Britain produced around 100 million rolls of wallpaper per year by the 1930s. Wallpaper [...]
Nick Hedges: Home
Nick Hedges really is the most astonishing documentary photographer. When I found that his book was going to be published, I just had to get a copy. Fifty year's on, his work for Shelter still [...]
Photo archives – discovering housing from the past
I was delighted to be asked to co-host Housing History Hour https://www.househistoryhour.co.uk on 4thFebruary at 7pm (GMT) and this post draws together more online resources that can be helpful to those wishing to learn more. [...]
How housing makes us feel: poetry about our need for decent homes
Amanda Gorman’s recital at Biden’s inauguration demonstrated once again the power of poetry and its value in communicating feelings that may otherwise be difficult to express, particular around power and powerlessness, hope or hopelessness and [...]
Learning from documentary type films
A previous post looked at some films related to housing, and this post focuses on historical documentary type films that help us to understand what has happened in the past in addressing poor housing conditions, [...]
Covid -19 and home
Covid-19 and the lockdown have bought the meaning of home into sharper focus and has exposed inequality and inequity with great clarity. The meaning of home has shifted for all of us. Where concepts of [...]