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Historical patterns of housing tenure

by Duncan Needham | Feb 22, 2021 | The Historian

This article was originally published in October 2017. In a conscious echo of Harold Macmillan who oversaw the construction of more than 300,000 mostly local authority houses in 1953, the Prime Minister recently announced that her government is ‘getting back into the...

Oxford colleges and their estates over seven centuries: part 1

by Robin Darwall-Smith | Jul 28, 2020 | The Historian

Above: The opening of the account roll of University College, Oxford, for 1383-4 © The Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 21ST NOVEMBER 2017 Few organisations, apart from cathedrals, can rival Oxford and Cambridge colleges...

Building the way out of the Great Depression

by Tehreem Husain | Aug 8, 2017 | The Historian

The interwar period in Britain oversaw the boom in the housing sector which resulted in the construction of a significant three million houses. In my previous article I explained how it is this boom which, amongst other factors, has been crucially attributed to post...

The History Man: an introduction

by Duncan Needham | Jun 5, 2017 | The Professor

After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1994 with a degree in Government and History, I spent three years with Credit Suisse Financial Products in London and Tokyo before studying Shipping, Trade and Finance for a year at business school. I first...