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Example history dissertation topic 13:
The dispersal of slum tenants and the effects upon perceptions of belonging: Central government policy 1919 – 1974
In the aftermath of WWI the Government was determined to build houses ‘fit for heroes’; a similar desire was also expressed after WWII. In both instances, war-time victory was accompanied by movements to improving the stock of working class housing through measures such as the Tudor Waters report (1918) and the Dudley Report (1944 ) through which councils were empowered and obligated to build municipal housing of a higher standard than that hitherto constructed. As a result of this and on-going programmes of municipal slum clearance, former inner-city residents were increasingly moved wither to estated suburbs on the outskirts of towns (or across geo-administrative borders into the territories of rural and urban districts) or transported wholesale to ‘new towns’. This dissertation charts these associated developments in housing and relates them to issues of identity and community building within the period.
Suggested initial topic reading:
- Byrne, D.S. (1976) ‘Allocation, the council ghetto and the political economy of housing’, Antipode, Vol. 8(1), pp. 24-29.
- Leese, P. (2006) Britain since 1945: Aspects of identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
