Parliament and colonial links urged by Royal Geographical Society
The discussion extols public instruction on colonial policy and urges a forum like the Royal Geographical Society to educate minds beyond Parliament. It notes stalled Hudson’s Bay negotiations, praising unity of British lineage and the aim to foster lasting ties with colonies through informed public opinion and moral strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Geographical Society
Ethnological Society
Lord Granville
Hudson’s Bay Territories
Canada
Great Britain
Charles II
House of Commons
Gladstone
Gladstone and Waterloo Buildings Redefine Worker Dwellings
A London article reviews the Industrial Dwellings Company efforts to provide healthy, affordable homes for the urban working class. It describes Gladstone and Waterloo Buildings in Finsbury and Bethnal Green projects, detailing design, amenities, and social aims amid overcrowding and high rents elsewhere. The piece notes better living conditions, higher construction standards, and plans for ~400 tenements housing about 2,000 people across several sites, with rents from 7s to 7s 6d weekly including rates and taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Association
Mises Burdett Coutts
The
Peabody Fund
Corporation of London
Sir Sydney Waterlow
Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
Peabody
Shadwell
Miss Burdett Coutts
New Market
Industrial Dwellings Company
Sydney Waterlow
Gladstone
Waterloo
Willowstreet
Finsbury
Shoreditch
Hoxton
North London Railway
Dalston
Broad-street
Bishopsgate-street
Great Eastern Railway
City of London
St. Pancras-road
King's Cross-road
Wapping
Southwark
City-road
Greenwich
Ebury Street
Pimlico
Wilmot-street
Bethnalgreen
Allen