Renting the middle-class house in nineteenth-century Manchester

Wage-draining rents, disinterested landlords and a society where only a minority own their own home may sound like eerie predictions for life in the not-too-distant future (or on the first two counts, the present), they also reflect Britain’s past. In this audio long read, historian, journalist and Mill contributor Thomas McGrath tells the story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s search for a middle-class house in nineteenth-century Manchester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.