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Estates : An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley
Category: History
Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink, and violence--the social ills they were built to cure.How did homes built to improve people's lives end up doing the opposite? Is their reputation fair, and if so who is to blame?Lynsey Hanley was born and ...Show more
Respectable: The Experience of Class by Lynsey Hanley
Category: Non-Fiction
Society is often talked about as a ladder, from which you can climb from bottom to top. The walls are less talked about. This book is about how people try to get over them, whether they manage to or not. In autumn 1992, growing up on a vast Birmingham estate, the sixteen-year-old Lynsey Hanley went to ...Show more
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