TY - BOOK ID - 32967047 TI - 'Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles' : Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society AU - Baigent, Elizabeth AU - Cowell, Ben AU - University of London. PY - 2016 SN - 190964658X 1909646008 PB - London : Institute of Historical Research, DB - UniCat KW - Hill, Octavia, KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32967047 AB - 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, if not a household name, Octavia Hill was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of acknowledged social problems, particularly housing and poverty. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, subsequent attempts by family members to keep her memory alive, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. The fourteen chapters in this book will help to provide a more 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. ER -