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Historical patterns of housing tenure

Historical patterns of housing tenure

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...
Building the way out of the Great Depression

Building the way out of the Great Depression

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

The History Man: an introduction

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...