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Estates An Intimate History Brutalism So how do we defineAn engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark. Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social