Episode 58 - The Postwar Squatting Movement in Bristol

Bristol History Podcast
11/12/2022 33 min
Episode 58 - The Postwar Squatting Movement in Bristol

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This week I spoke with journalist and author Eugene Byrne to discuss the mass squatting movement that took place in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the context of a chronic housing shortage across the country, Bristol in the summer of 1946 saw ex-military bases at Purdown and White City in Ashton occupied by hundreds of people (mostly young couples) who found a direct solution to the housing crisis.

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