Monday, 25 April 2011

Octavia Hill - In Our Time Melvyn Bragg


Octavia Hill was a Victorian social reformer.  Unusually for a Victorian social reformer she was actually poor herself.  Despite this, and with a bit of help from John Ruskin, she managed to create housing estates that helped poor people to get out of the slums.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0100jpz

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