House Through Time

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and BAFTA award-winning presenter and filmmaker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer, New Statesmanand BBC History Magazine. His previous books include Black and British, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the Longman-History Today Trustees Award, The Kaiser’s Holocaust and The World’s War. He was also a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Black British History. In 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration.Melanie Backe-Hansen is a historian, writer, and speaker, who specializes in researching the social history of houses throughout the United Kingdom. She is the author of two books, House Histories: The Secrets Behind Your Front Door (2011) and Historic Streets and Squares: The Secrets on Your Doorstep (2013), and she was a consultant on the television series of A House Through Time. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and an honorary teaching fellow at the University of Dundee.

A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes

• Section - i: List of Illustrations Introduction - ii: Introduction: The Changing Idea of the Home Chapter - 1: Where to Start? Deeds, Documents, and Archives Chapter - 2: Britain’s Early Homes: Towns and Villages Before the Georgian Age Chapter - 3: The Georgian Home: The Birth of the Modern City Chapter - 4: The Victorian City: A Tale of Two Nations Chapter - 5: The Devil’s Acre: The Crisis of the Slums Chapter - 6: Life at ‘The Laurels’: The Victorian Suburbs Chapter - 7: A Home in Suburbia: The Expanding Middle Class Chapter - 8: Homes for Heroes: A Semi-Detached Britain Chapter - 9: The War is Over: The Age of Austerity to the Renovation Boom Section - iii: Conclusion Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Resources and Bibliography Index - vi: Index