Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society

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 she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad ran...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-387582025-03-24T01:02:00Z Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society Baigent, Elizabeth Cowell, Ben Octavia Hill National Trust Humanitarianism Charity British Parks Activism Social Reforms Victorian London Feminism 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 she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a 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. 2021-02-10T14:58:23Z 2021-02-10T14:58:23Z 2020-05-27T16:45:05Z 2016 book ONIX_20200527_9781909646582_13 OCN: 1053696928 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39387 9781909646001 9781909646346 9781914477867 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38758 eng IHR Conference Series open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39387/1/9781909646582.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39387/1/9781909646582.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39387/1/9781909646582.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39387/1/9781909646582.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39387/1/9781909646582.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/917.9781909646582 10.14296/917.9781909646582 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781909646001 9781909646346 9781914477867 University of London Press 350 London open access
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Social Reforms
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Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
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Humanitarianism
Charity
British Parks
Activism
Social Reforms
Victorian London
Feminism
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