London in the First World War

White, Jerry

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“…However, while Greater London had added a net of 670,000 people between 1901 and 1911, only 140,000 new houses and flats were built in that decade, and almost all of them were in the city's suburbs and designed for middle-class occupation. 6 White also noted that in 1914 "the London housing problem was perhaps the city's most grievous nuisance, on a scale not seen elsewhere." One-third of the homes in the county of London-335,000-were of one or two rooms only, and they housed no less than 939,000 Londoners.…”

Section: "Among the Best Achievements Of Modern Domestic Building"mentioning

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The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain

Havardi

2023

Journal of Urban History

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“Mother went in to work tonight, how I hate her on Sunday work!,” wrote fourteen years old Kathleen Biddlecombe in her diary, on Sunday, January 13, 1918. Kathleen and her family lived on 6 Cobbett Road, London, in Well Hall Garden Suburb—mostly known today as Progress Estate. Built between January and December 1915, in the first year of the First World War, the estate provided some 1,086 houses and 212 flats for the munition workers of the nearby Royal Arsenal factory in Woolwich. This article examines the First World War history of this housing project, by focusing on the diary of young Kathleen. Using the works of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certueau, the article probes the tensions between the ways this space was planned and built—in accordance with the agenda of the Garden City Movement—and the ways it was produced and used by its inhabitants during the war. It uncovers the production of space by the people whose houses were built along the Well Hall Road, where Route 44 of the Tram stopped to take them to and from the munition factory.

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Section: "Among the Best Achievements Of Modern Domestic Building"mentioning

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The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain

Havardi

2023

Journal of Urban History

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“…In 1915, when the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) sought to manage drinking in places where essential war work was being done, Gothenburg offered an obvious model. The CCB closed some of the pubs it took over, improved others, and built new ones in North London, Cromarty Firth, Carlisle, and Gretna Green, eventually extending its influence across the United Kingdom (Duncan, 2013;White, 2014). Carlisle's pubs remained in state control until 1974.…”

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Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

Kneale

2021

Geography Compass

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This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and parts of Britain's empire. Five key aspects of drinking places are identified. The paper first considers them as significant social spaces associated with positive conceptions of both the public sphere and public space before exploring the ways in which drink became a spatial problem for contemporary observers, both in terms of their internal design and layout, and in their arrangements and concentrations in space. Histories and historical geographies of workers and patrons in these sites then suggest that the spatial problems associated with drink might also be classed, gendered, racialized, and sexualized. The last two sections of the paper review work on aspects of drinking places shared across many different social and geographical contexts: licensing and the provision of highly regulated 'improved' sites for the consumption of alcohol. Similarities across many different contexts may reflect common social patterns or the development of shared strategies for reform. The conclusion suggests a few areas that might be developed. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…The air raids thus came as an additional source of terror for an already distressed civilian population. On analysing Londoners’ reactions to air raids in World War I, White (2014: 126) describes an ‘unpredictable mixture of sangfroid and blind terror’. Indeed, the emotional response of the British people was variable, oscillating between both extremes, and the press naturally indulged in stories of bravery and stoicism.…”

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When war came home: air-raid shock in World War I

Linden

2021

Hist Psychiatry

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During World War I, civilians became a target of the war machine. Air raids transformed the lives of those not involved in active combat and blurred the lines between the home front and the war front. This paper argues that the experience of air raids in World War I was comparable to the combat stress at the Western Front. The author bases her argument on contemporary publications in medical journals, measures taken by British authorities to prevent air-raid shock, and contemporary case records. The narratives of air-raid shock – similarly to those of shell-shocked soldiers – reflect the feelings of terror and loss of control, and demonstrate the profound effect these experiences could have on individuals’ mental health.

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London in the First World War

Cited by 7 publications

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The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain

The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain

Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

When war came home: air-raid shock in World War I

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