TY - BOOK AU - Olusoga,David AU - Backe-Hansen,Melanie TI - A house through time SN - 9781529037241 (hbk.) : AV - GT285 U1 - 392.3609 OLU 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Dwellings KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - City and town life KW - Customs and Folklore KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - TV tie-in; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - As with the BBC television series, 'A House Through Time' offers readers not only the tools to explore the histories of their own homes, but also a vividly readable history of the British city, the forces of industry, disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society's rejects ER -