Socialist History Society Meeting
Campaigns
for Decent Housing Past and Present
Speaker Duncan Bowie
2pm,
21st November 2015
Venue Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green
FREE TO ATTEND
Duncan Bowie will give a talk
on radical and socialist campaigns for decent housing, land nationalisation and
town planning in the 19th century and seek to relate them to the current
housing crisis and contemporary struggles.
Duncan's book, The Radical and Socialist Tradition in
British Planning: From Puritan Colonies to Garden Cities is to be
published by Ashgate later this year.
Duncan is a member of the Socialist
History Society committee and of the committee of the London Labour Housing
Group. He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster. He is the author of
SHS OP No 34, Roots of the British
Socialist Movement.
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