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Any enquiry into the relationship between architecture and socialism in nineteenth-century Britain would have to take cognisance of Philip Webb, for with Webb we see an architect of indisputable historical importance who was heavily involved, during the peak years of his career, in the socialist movement.
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M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House (Oxford, 1971; expanded edn, 1979) p. 79. Philip Webb in the North (Middlesbrough, 1984).
W. R. Lethaby, Philip Webb and his Work (Oxford, 1935; expanded edn with introduction by G. Rubens, 1979) p. 116. All references are to the 1979 edition.
D. Cherry, ‘The Hogarth Club: 1858–1861’, Burlington Magazine, 122 (1980) pp. 238–42; also
N. Pevsner, ‘Colonel Gillum and the Pre-Raphaelites’, Burlington Magazine, 95 (1953) pp. 78 and 81.
Ruskin to W. Hale White, 27 October 1867, in D. V. White, The Groombridge Diary (1924) pp. 40–1.
E. P. Thompson, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (1955; revised edn, 1977) pp. 109 and 172.
Webb to Major Godman, 10 December 1879, in J. Brandon-Jones, ‘Notes on the Building of Smeaton Manor’, Architectural History, 1 (1958) p. 56.
Webb to C. L. Eastlake, 14 March 1870, in J. Brandon-Jones, ‘Letters of Philip Webb and his Contemporaries’, Architectural History, 8(1965) P. 66.
BAL Begley papers B10 Box 1 no 2002, C. C. Winmill to W. W. Begley, nd. On Winmill, see J. Winmill, Charles Canning Winmill. An Architect’s Life by His Daughter (1946).
BAL LeW/2/5. On Robson see D. E. B. Weiner, ‘The Institution of Popular Education: Architectural Form and Social Policy in the London Board Schools 1870–1904’ (Princeton University PhD, 1984) p. 187.
See Shaw’s comment on Street in Lethaby, Philip Webb, p. 75; also D. B. Brownlee, The Law Courts. The Architecture of George Edmund Street (1984) pp. 269–73.
G. Burne-Jones (ed.), Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones (2 vols, 1904) 1, p. 277.
G. Howard, 10 May 1906, quoted in A. Penn, The Building of Saint Martin’s Church, Brampton (Brampton, 1972) p. 19.
H. Ricardo, ‘The House in the Country’, Magazine of Art (1900) p. 110.
J. Rae (1891) quoted in S. Yeo, ‘A New Life: the Religion of Socialism in Britain, 1883–1896’, History Workshop, 4 (1977) p. 7. For this section I have drawn also on Thompson, Romantic to Revolutionary and S. Pierson, Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism. The Struggle for a New Consciousness (1973).
J. Rae (1891) quoted in S. Yeo, ‘A New Life: the Religion of Socialism in Britain, 1883–1896’, History Workshop, 4 (1977) p. 7. For this section I have drawn also on Thompson, Romantic to Revolutionary and S. Pierson, Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism. The Struggle for a New Consciousness (1973).
BL Add MSS 45354 Webb to Boyce, 8 May 1888; IISH Socialist League Papers 3182 Webb to F. Charles, 31 July-8 September 1888.
Seed Time (October 1890) in W. H. G. Armytage, Heavens Below. Utopian Experiments in England 1560–1960 (1961) p. 334.
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Swenarton, M. (1989). Philip Webb: Architecture and Socialism in the 1880s. In: Artisans and Architects. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19648-7_2
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