new towns reading list
right to stand on the pavement
New Lives New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain
select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
rhododendrons
BBC Radio 4 Analysis, ‘what’s the point of street protest?’
East London primary sources
The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
MERL OSS lantern slide exhibition now online
Frow lecture at the WCML: trespass and enclosure

New towns reading list

This is a module reading list for my module, ‘Boom cities and new towns in 20th century Britain’.

NB – I will type up the full list in text form asap. Screenshots of the Tallis reading list are temporary while I do this.

Table of Contents

    Core reading

    General reading

    Primary sources

    Garden cities

    Homes fit for heroes

    The Blitz and postwar reconstruction

    New town utopia

    Atomic

    case studies

    leisure and consumerism

    new town blues?

    segregated communities

    global new towns

    politics of council housing

    the end of utopia?