Octavia Hill’s Red Cross Hall and its mural to heroic self-sacrifice

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Price, John. 2016. Octavia Hill’s Red Cross Hall and its mural to heroic self-sacrifice. In: Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell, eds. ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill and the remaking of British society. London: Institute of Historical Research, pp. 65-90. ISBN 9781909646001 [Book Section]

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This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular.

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