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Claire Wrigley is a PhD candidate in modern European history, specializing in Britain and its empire. Her dissertation, Family, Nation, Empire: An Imperial History of Public Housing in Britain, 1890-2017, argues that the law of public (council) housing was a domestic expression of the politics of empire and decolonization as it was designed to produce stable, productive working-class families who took a particular form, that of the white, heterosexual nuclear family. Drawn from research at over fifteen local and national archives around the UK, her work has been supported by various entities including the North American Conference on British Studies and the Berkeley Institute for International Studies. She is an occasional guest writer for the Social Housing Law Association, London.
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