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War, peace and city streets

How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world

Podcast


Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English housing from the 1920s to the 1950s — how to heat them, how to feed their inhabitants and how to stop them from being levelled by German bombs.

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