Ideal homes, 1918-39: domestic design and suburban modernism
Research output: Book/Report › Monograph › peer-review
Chapter 1: The interwar house: Ideal homes and domestic design
Chapter 2: Suburban: Class, gender and homeownership
Chapter 3: Modernisms: ‘Good’ design and ‘bad’ design
Chapter 4: Efficiency: Labour-saving and the professional housewife
Chapter 5: Nostalgia: The Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of Empire
Chapter 6: Afterword: Modernising the interwar home
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Manchester |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Number of pages | 272 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5261-2657-3 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7190-6885-0, 978-0-7190-6884-3 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Design and Material Culture |
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Publisher | Manchester University Press |
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How to use the 1939 Register to find the wartime history of your house
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Houses through time: some homes can reflect a century of social change
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Activities
Modern Interiors Research Centre 2019 Research Symposium
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
British Records Association conference 2019: Living on the Edge: Records of Suburbia
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Women's History Network Midlands Region annual conference 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Ideal Homes: The past, present and future of housing, Portsmouth Bookfest 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Houses, Homes and Histories, talk at the People Place and Community Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Media
Book shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Memorial Medallion
Press/Media: Research
Prizes
Shortlisted for Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2020 Historians of British Art Book Prize for Exemplary Scholarship in the Period after 1800
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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