Katharine Buildings

Research project exploring histories of migration, difference and inequality at an east London social housing estate (1885-1972).

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📷 Beatrice Webb by George Bernard Shaw, copy by Emery Walker Ltd. Photogravure, circa 1900. ©️ @NPGLondon

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🎤🎤 Upcoming talk at the
@ihr_history Migration and Mobility Seminar.

Tuesday 20th October 2026, 5.30-7.30pm.

Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU and online.

Register for free: https://t.co/gpAtVDdC5b

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These two archives reveal an intimate history of diversity and exclusion - and how social investigators struggled to account for difference in their studies of poverty and the working class.

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‘Social and Spatial Encounters Over Time: Revisiting Katharine Buildings’ is a @LeverhulmeTrust-funded research project based at the @UniWestminster Team: Val Gillies, @RosEdwards2, Jonah Miller, @robertdeakin1

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👋 Introducing Revisiting Katharine Buildings! - a historical research project exploring migration, difference and inequality at a Victorian housing estate in east London.

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📷 ©️ Katharine Buildings in 1970, shortly before its demolition. The London Archives (City of London Corporation).