Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain (London University Press, 2023)
Shane Ewen (Author)
On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a housing safety crisis unfolded across the country. Yet the Grenfell Tower fire was a disaster foretold – the culmination of successive decades of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional failure to learn from the lessons of past multiple-fatality fires. Commended in the House of Commons, Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain (published in 2023 by the University of London on open-access) deepens our understanding of the events surrounding the disaster and reveals how the housing crisis has been going on a long time—the result of either deliberate Government policy or Government neglect to give public safety the priority it deserves.
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