Eyre and Eton in Camden: uncovering the colonial histories of three North London housing estates.

Yazici, Edanur, Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah, Keith, Michael, Murji, Karim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7490-7906, Pile, Steve and Solomos, John (2025) Eyre and Eton in Camden: uncovering the colonial histories of three North London housing estates. London Journal : a review of metropolitan society past and present (22). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0305-8034

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Abstract

This article analyses the colonial histories of three north London housing
estates. A kilometre apart from each other and built under different social
policy conditions, Hilgrove, Chalcots, and Alexandra Road Estates all share
colonial histories. We trace the role of the slave-holding Eyre Estate in
influencing the architecture of Hilgrove Estate; uncover how the Eyre Estate
clashed with residents and the London Borough of Camden over Alexandra
Road Estate; and consider Eton College’s links to enslavement and its
ownership of Chalcots Estate. We tell these histories with the aim of
beginning a conversation around how to decolonise the way the city is known, linking the histories of the three estates with the colonialities of
property and the welfare state. We do this to reflect on the implications a
decolonial approach may have for new approaches to the history of public
housing and the struggle for its future.

Item Type: Article
Identifier: 10.1080/03058034.2025.2488223
Keywords: council housing; architecture; decolonising the city; colonialism; enslavement; property ownership; social housing policy
Subjects: Social sciences
Depositing User: Karim Murji
Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2025 11:18
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2025 11:30
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13764

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