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A History of English Architecture: 410-2013

Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor by Professor Simon Thurley. By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and the first industrial cities. These phenomena led to vast technical, social and architectural challenges. Victorian architects and engineers met these with some of the most impressive feats of construction since the cathedrals of the middle ages. (from gresham.ac.uk)

Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor


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1. Making England: The Shadow of Rome, 410-1130
2. A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300
3. How the Middle Ages Were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408
4. How the Middle Ages Were Built: Coming of Age, 1408-1530
5. The End of the Old World Order, 1530-1650
6. The Rise of Consensus, 1650-1760
7. Engine House, 1760-1830
8. On Top of the World, 1830-1914
9. Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor
10. English Architecture and the First World War
11. Forwards and Backwards Architecture in Inter-War England
12. Coming to Terms with Modern Times: English Architecture in the Post War Era