Houses or buildings for sheltering people

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Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters / edited by C. Edmund Maurice.

Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

The house of Abraham Cowley in Chertsey. Line engraving by J. Basire.

Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.

AIDS? HIV+? : What you can expect from your Citizens Advice Bureau ... / Citizens Advice Bureau ; Terrence Higgins Trust.

Shoes and legs of a man wearing a pin-striped suit holding a suitcase standing next to an advertising banner with the statement: 'People with AIDS: Housing crisis; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.

Surgeon John Norton's House, Golden Square, London, (top) and an advertisement for "his assistant & successor" John Hayman. Engraving by Long, 1786.

For chilblains Pernivit prophylaxis and treatment : housing and the British.

The house and birthplace of Sir Humphry Davy in Penzance, Cornwall. Pencil drawing.

Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Gt. Britain / by Edwin Chadwick ; edited with an introduction by M.W. Flinn.

Rural housing : with a chapter on the after-war problem / by William G. Savage.

British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

Report on housing in the Gold Coast / prepared for the government of the Gold Coast by Charles Abrams, Vladimir Bodiansky, Otto H.G. Koenigsberger.

District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

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Housing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Housing

Works from the collections

Rural housing : with a chapter on the after-war problem / by William G. Savage.

British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

Report on housing in the Gold Coast / prepared for the government of the Gold Coast by Charles Abrams, Vladimir Bodiansky, Otto H.G. Koenigsberger.

District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

Housing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Housing

Works from the collections

Rural housing : with a chapter on the after-war problem / by William G. Savage.

British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

Report on housing in the Gold Coast / prepared for the government of the Gold Coast by Charles Abrams, Vladimir Bodiansky, Otto H.G. Koenigsberger.

District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

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