I research and write about the history of renting, homelessness and housing policy in Britain.
EVICTION (book)
Eviction: A Society History of Rent (Verso, 2025)
Eviction traces 150 years of rent, eviction, and resistance, recovering the stories of the people who fought back.
LIFELINES (report)
Lifelines: A History of Temporary Accommodation in England, 1834-2011 (Justlife, 2026)
Lifelines examines nearly two centuries of temporary accommodation in England. From Victorian workhouses to 21st century B&Bs, it spotlights stories of exclusion, appalling conditions and the resistance of homeless households against a punitive system.
Articles/Opinion
LabourHub: “Rampant Landlordism and Tenant Resistance” (Nov 2025)
Red Pepper Magazine: “Fighting for Cardboard City: The drudgery of activism on the frontlines of the housing crisis” (Summer 2022)
Feminism and the City? Magazine: “Housing as an infrastructure of care: Defiance against destruction in a British suburb” (June 2022)
The Guardian: “Our landlord is demolishing 70 homes- but we won’t go quietly” (March 2018)
Blog
Save Our Homes LS26 campaign site: https://savourhomesLS26.org
Recognition
I won the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize 2022 for “Fighting for Cardboard City”,
In 2024, I was awarded a K Blundell Trust Society of Authors grant for works designed to raise social awareness.
EVICTION reviews/coverage:
‘[One] of the best [housing histories] to be published recently‘ – Labour History Review, vol. 91, 1, 2026.
How Britain’s Housing Was Broken — The Observer, Sept 2025
One of 10 New Non-Fiction Books to Read for Your Autumn 2025 Reset — Shortlist, Sept 2025
We Have Never Moved Beyond the Idea That a House Is at the Grace and Favour of a Landlord — Camden New Journal, Oct 2025
Top Ten Books to Understand Labour Conference — Mark Perryman, Sept 2025
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