Title: Capital homes: how Cardiff's housing developed following the Victorian era
Timings:
Doors Open at 5.45pm
Welcome by Professor Juliet Davis at 6pm
Lecture by Professor Martin Daunton at 6.10pm
Q&A at 7pm
Event Closes at 7.30pm
Details: Britain now faces a serious housing crisis with too few homes being built at a high cost This lecture asks what lessons can be learned from the experience of Cardiff during its period of rapid growth when high-quality houses were built that most people could afford. The lecture explores the role of landowners such as the Bute estate, the nature of the building industry, and the financing of housing – and asks how things changed between the wars with the arrival of mass council housing. What then changed to cause our current crisis and what can be done to make housing once again more affordable and to deliver a better environment?”
Bio: Professor Martin Daunton is an author, historian and lecturer. His interests include the economic history of Britain since 1700, the shifting boundaries between the market and state, the politics of public finance, the relations between national and international economic policies, and debates over intergenerational equity. He has published and lectured widely on these areas and is particularly concerned to engage with policy makers and practitioners with an interest in the historical background to current issues. He has written extensively on the industrial development of South Wales and urban history, the comparative history of the South Wales and Great Northern Coalfields and housing policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge Urban History of Britain.
He was brought up in South Wales and attended Barry Grammar School for Boys. He read economic history at the University of Nottingham and then studied for his doctorate at the University of Kent under the supervision of Theo Barker, which he completed in 1974. Between then and 2014, he held academic positions at the University of Durham, University College London, and the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was chair of the Faculty of History as well as twice holding the position of Chair of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences and served as Master of Trinity Hall from 2004 to 2014. During this time, he was also President of the Royal Historical Society, a trustee of the National Maritime Museum, chair of the Fitzwilliam Museum syndicate, and chair of the Leverhulme Trust Academic Awards Committee. He has been Visiting Professor at Gresham College and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.
