Understanding the Edwardian and Inter-War House

Understanding the Edwardian and Inter-War House
Author: Alan Johnson
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9781861268341

Useful for owners of Edwardian and Inter-war houses, this work offers advice on renovation, restoration, fault-finding, repair, and maintenance. Topics covered include: historical background and description of dwelling types; constructional anatomy of Edwardian and Inter-war houses; alterations and improvements; and more.

The Edwardian House

The Edwardian House
Author: Helen C. Long
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780719037290

Illustrates how Edwardian houses were built, how they were used, and what they meant at the time.

Understanding Housing Defects

Understanding Housing Defects
Author: Duncan Marshall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1136153748

Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. For this new edition, many of the chapters have been substantially updated and new photographs have been added. There are four new chapters covering: How defects are defined An overview of building and architectural history External joinery and painted finishes Environmental and health- related building problems Many of the 21 chapters cover a specific building element and include a brief introduction setting out construction principles and the evolution of current practice. All of the chapters consider the identification, cause and diagnosis of common (and sometimes not so common) defects. This book is a must have for all those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors, general practice surveyors, architects, estate agents, housing officers and anyone involved in the management and maintenance of property as well as its construction will benefit hugely from this highly informative full-colour text. Written by the authors of The Construction of Houses, the book is also the natural companion to this bestselling textbook.

The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education

The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education
Author: Tom Schuller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040090923

The Working Men’s College (WMC) is the UK’s oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954 centenary history by JFC Harrison. Contributions from a range of professional educators explore topics such as the philosophy of the College, the issue of women’s entry, college governance and the notion of community as it applies to changes in the composition of the student body. Additional features include a chapter on the architectural history of the College; an interview with Satnam Gill as the key figure who drove through crucial change at a time when the College might have died; a chapter from the latest member of a family which has been closely involved with the College over four generations; and a range of personal contributions from tutors and students from the past six decades. This book will be of interest to historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, all those in UK adult education, along with local Camden/London community and political groups and the WMC’s extensive family of former students and tutors.

Ideal homes

Ideal homes
Author: Deborah Sugg Ryan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1526152258

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young
Author: Chiara Briganti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135194309X

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young provides a valuable analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women, who have suffered not only from a lack of critical attention but from the assumption that experimental modernist techniques are the only expression of the modern. In the process of documenting the publication and reception history of E. H. Young's novels, the authors suggest a paradigm for analyzing the situation of women writers during the interwar years. Their discussion of Young in the context of both canonical and noncanonical writers challenges the generic label and literary status of the domestic novel, as well as facile assumptions about popular and middlebrow fiction, canon formation, aesthetic value, and modernity. The authors also make a significant contribution to discussions of the everyday and to the burgeoning field of 'homeculture,' as they show that the fictional embodiment and inscription of home by writers such as Young, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lettice Cooper, E. M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, Storm Jameson, and E. Arnot Robertson epitomize the long-standing symbiosis between architecture and literature, or more specifically, between the house and the novel.

Twentieth-Century Suburbs

Twentieth-Century Suburbs
Author: C.M.H Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 113641164X

Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages. This book describes the ways in which these suburbs were created, particularly by private enterprise in England in the 1920s and 1930s, the physical forms they took, and how they have changed over time in response to social, economic and cultural change. Twentieth-Century Suburbs is concerned with the history, geography, architecture and planning of the ordinary suburban areas in which most British people live. It discusses the origins of suburbs; the ways in which they have been represented; the scale and causes of their growth; their form and architectural style; the landowners, builders and architects responsible for their creation; the changes they have undergone both physically and socially; and their impact on urban form and the implications for urban landscape management.

Our Inter-war Houses

Our Inter-war Houses
Author: Bryce Raworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture, Australian
ISBN: 9780909710828

Conserving our heritage - Inter-War styles - Building conservation guidelines - Guidelines for additions and extensions - Building infill guidelines - Streetscape guidelines.

A Bit of a Flutter

A Bit of a Flutter
Author: Mark Clapson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1992
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780719034367

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000
Author: Paul Addison
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1405141409

A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate