Information Resources

As part of the training we have provided to volunteer researchers, we have been compiling a list of useful books, publications and online resources on the subject the history of council housing in the Black Country. We h0pe it is useful – if you know of others you think should be included please contact us here.

The Black Country:

• Aitcheson, Alan 2000 Working Class Housing in Sedgley 1900-1923
• Barnsby, George J., Undated. A History of Housing in Wolverhampton 1750 to 1975. Available at: https://distinctlyblackcountry.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/sbl7424_ahistoryofhousing.pdf
• Cook, Martin 2007 Building recording at Wulfruna Court and Grange Court, Dale Street, Wolverhampton. Available at: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-945-1/dissemination/pdf/martinco1-40520_1.pdf
• Harwood, Elain, 2008 Neurath and Bilston, Pasmore and Peterlee In: Twentieth Century Architecture 9, Housing the Twentieth Century Nation Eds. Elain Harwood & Alan Powers. Twentieth Century Society
• Larkham, Peter J., 2004 New Suburbs and Post-War Reconstruction: The Fate of Charles Reilly’s ‘Greens’. University of Central England Faculty of the Built Environment School of Planning and Housing Working Paper Series, 89.
• Lloyd, Chris, 2003 A Home of their Own Redwing Publishing
• ‘John M’ (undated) A History of Council Housing in Wolverhampton http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/A-History-of-Council-Housing-in-Wolverhampton
• Municipal Dreams http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/category/wolverhampton
• UK Housing Wiki: Sandwell. Available at: http://ukhousing.wikia.com/wiki/sandwell.
• Up The Oss Road http://uptheossroad.wordpress.com
• Walsall Housing Group 2013 The Home that Jack Built – A Life in Walsall, One Man’s Story. Available from: http://www.wordassociation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/whg-10th-Anniversary-Book.pdf
• Watkiss Singleton, Rosalind 2010 “Old Habits Persist” Change and Continuity in Black Country Communities: Pensnett, Sedgley and Tipton, 1945-c1970. Univ. of Wolverhampton PhD Thesis. Available at: http://wlv.openrepository.com/wlv/bitstream/2436/129932/1/Watkiss%20Singleton_PhD%20thesis.pdf
• Wednesbury History Society History of Housing in Wednesbury.

West Midlands, and the rest of the UK:

• Arch (The Association of Retained Council Housing) 2012 Home Truths, Tenants’ Tales of Council Housing. Available at: http://www.arch-housing.org.uk/media/14075/home_truths.pdf
• Burnett, John 1978 A Social History of Housing 1815-1985 Methuen
• Chinn, Carl 1999 Homes for People: Council Housing and Urban Renewal in Birmingham, 1849-1999 Brewin Books.
• Dormer, Peter 1994 ‘Architecture: The rise, fall and rise of the tower block’ The Independent, 23 February 1994. Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/architecture-the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-the-tower-block-peter-dormer-explains-why-multistorey-homes-once-cursed-may-not-be-so-bad-after-all-1395911.html#
• Verlaan, Tim 2014 ‘A memorial to the rise and fall of social housing’ Failed Architecture. Available at: http://failedarchitecture.com/a-memorial-to-the-highs-and-lows-of-social-housing/
• Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan 1994 Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Yale University Press. Available at: http://fields.eca.ac.uk/gis/TowerBlock.pdf
• Grindrod, John 2013 Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain Old Street Publishing
• Grindrod, John Dirty Modern Scoundrel http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk
• Hanley, Lynsey 2007 Estates: An Intimate History Granta Books
• Heritage Explorer (2010) Teachers’ notes: High Rise Housing Developments in the Post War Period. Available from: www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/file/he/content/upload/9526.doc
• Heritage Explorer (2010) Teachers’ Notes: A Brief History of Social (Council) Housing: http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/file/he/content/upload/9527.doc
• Jones, Owen 2011 Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class Verso
• London County Council 1994 Public Housing in Poplar British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/p21
• Municipal Dreams  http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/
• Parker, Tony 1983 The People of Providence: A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants Eland Publishing
• Ravetz, Alison 2011 Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment Routledge
• Skyscraper City http://www.skyscrapercity.com/
• Tower Block http://www.towerblock.org/
• University of the West of England The History of Council Housing http://fet.uwe.ac.uk/conweb/house_ages/council_housing/
• Urban, Florian 2012 Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing Routledge
• Wheeler, Brian 2011 What Future for Social Housing? BBC News. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14380936

Rest of the World

• National Public Housing Museum  http://www.nphm.org
• Museen der Stadt Wien 2014 Gemeinde baut: Wiener Wohnbau 1920-2020
• Petty, Audrey (ed.) 2013 High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing Voice of Witness / McSweeney’s