Parks, Council Estates and Essex - A half day in Nottingham

Parks, Council Estates & Essex! - a half-day school with Travis Elborough, Ian Waites and Gillian Darley Saturday, 11th November 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm.
All three speakers move from national to local issues in this event discussing public space and the built environment. Travis Elborough will be talking about parks, one of his recent books being A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution - places that have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, hippies and the common people trying to savour a democratic space for relaxation. Ian Waites will be talking about social housing his most recent book is Middlefield: A Postwar Council Estate in Time. Gillian Darley has written about utopian communities in Villages of Vision, but here she will be talking about Essex, which is almost as interesting a county as Nottses. Tickets: £10 (on the day), £8(early booking), £5(students/concessions) Please buy your ticket in advance from Five Leaves Bookshop, 0115 8373097 Mechanics Institute, North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG14EZ In association with the East Midlands Twentieth Century Society
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