Main entry:

Weiner, Deborah E. B.

Title & Author:

Architecture and social reform in late-Victorian London / Deborah E.B. Weiner.

Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1994.

Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

St. Martin's Press

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. London, Liberals and social reform. i. London divided. ii. 'Worthy' and 'unworthy' poor -- Ch. 2. The 'discovery' of working class childhood. i. The Education Act of 1870. ii. The School Board for London. iii. The rescue mission -- Ch. 3. The public face of the London Board School. i. The institution and its public. ii. Finding an architect. iii. The Queen Anne style. iv. The gift giving relationship -- Ch. 4. Inside the 'decorated shed'. i. English traditions. ii. The Prussian system. iii. The infants' school -- Ch. 5. The Board School and the movement for National Efficiency: the 'regeneration' of the working classes. i. The decline of the nation. ii. An explicitly gendered education. iii. The end of the Board School era -- Ch. 6. 'The best for the lowest': the Settlement movement -- Ch. 7. The People's Palace: Walter Besant and the slum pastoral -- Ch. 8. Robert Elsmere: Mrs Ward and the New Theology.
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Summary:

This book examines the architecture of the newly-emergent institutions of reform and philanthropy in late-Victorian London that were intended to bring the redemptive values of English middle-class culture to the working-classes. Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late nineteenth-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism, and as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure palace for the working-classes. Weiner explains the social relations which informed the production and use of these buildings, analysing the relationship between the intentions of the founders and the architectural expression of their buildings, which drew upon contemporary myths of a peaceful and harmonious past. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and lecturers of architectural history; urban history; social history.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0719039142
9780719039140

Subject:

Public architecture England London.
Architecture and society England London History 19th century.
Architecture, Victorian England London.
Architecture publique Angleterre Londres.
Architecture et société Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture victorienne Angleterre Londres.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Victorian.
Buildings.
Public architecture.
Bouwkunst.
Sociale hervormingen.
Architecture publique Angleterre (GB) Londres (GB)
Architecture Aspect social Angleterre (GB) Londres (GB) Histoire.
Architecture victorienne Angleterre (GB) Londres (GB)
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
London.
England London.
Londres (GB) Constructions.
Architecture Related to Society
London (England)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104580
Call No.: ID NA9050.5.W45; ID:94-B2007
Status: Available