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oapen-20.500.12657-393872024-03-27T12:23:17Z Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society Baigent, Elizabeth Cowell, Ben History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime, if not a household name, Octavia Hill was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of acknowledged social problems, particularly housing and poverty. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, subsequent attempts by family members to keep her memory alive, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. The fourteen chapters in this book will help to provide a more nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular. 2020-05-27T16:45:05Z 2020-05-27T16:45:05Z 2016 book ONIX_20200527_9781909646582_13 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39387 eng IHR Conference Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781909646582.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/917.9781909646582 10.14296/917.9781909646582 4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34 University of London Press 350 London open access
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This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime, if not a household name, Octavia Hill was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of acknowledged social problems, particularly housing and poverty. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, subsequent attempts by family members to keep her memory alive, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. The fourteen chapters in this book will help to provide a more nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular.
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