Ideal homes: Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House : Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar Home
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 24890661
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-5261-5067-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This single-authored monograph demonstrates sustained research effort, being produced over a prolonged time over 2 REF census periods, interrupted due to serious illness which impacted on the author’s ability to access of research material. It involved the collection and analysis of a large body of diverse secondary sources and primary material from numerous archives and museums across the UK, many of which have not been digitised or even catalogued properly and can only be consulted in person. It also draws on print, ephemera and object collections amassed by the author over many years.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is the second retitled and repackaged edition of a single-authored monograph that was originally titled Ideal Homes: 1918-39: Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism, published in 2018 by Manchester University Press. Unusually for a book by an academic press, it has 20 colour plates and 60 black and white illustrations that were supported by funding from a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Design History Society 25th Anniversary Award. In its small paperback format and with its new colour cover, it is intentionally designed by the publisher to appeal to wider non-academic audiences, as well as academic ones, in this new trade imprint. It has a new introduction that explains how to do house history, drawing on the author’s role as consultant historian to BBC Two's A House Through Time. However, the rest of the text is unchanged from the first edition.
The first edition won the 2020 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800 and was shortlisted for the 2018 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for an outstanding contribution to architectural history.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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