On this page you’ll find details of articles the team have published and media appearances
Publications
Alistair Fair, Lynn Abrams, Kat Green, Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters and Valerie Wright, Building a Modern Scotland: A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947-1997 (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). The book is also available is also available via open access and can be downloaded here.
Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair, ‘The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80’ Contemporary British History, 38(2) (2024) 219–244. (Published online: 08 Jan 2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2294972
Alistair Fair, ‘Stonehouse: Scotland’s last new town, c. 1967–1977’ Urban History 50(4) (2022) 1-22. (Published online: 17 May 2022) doi:10.1017/S0963926822000281
Media
Members of the team quoted in ‘Livingston at 60: A New Town forged in ambition and hopes for a better life’ by Alison Campsie in the Scotsman –
TV
Valerie from our team appears in ‘Meet you at the Hippos’:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00124rq
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