A Social History of Housing 1815-1985: Second Edition

By John Burnett

Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815-1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a century and a half of developments in housing conditions both urban and rural, public and private, and tracing the evolution of mass housing through by-law terraces, back-to-backs and the tower block to the low-rise, high-density estates of the 1980s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041133502
• ISBN13: 9781041133506
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 414 Pages