ABSTRACT
The late 1870s saw a revival of agitation for land reform. In 1880, a group of Henry George's followers in England established the Land Reform Union. The mid 1880s saw a revival of socialist interest in home colonisation. The mid and late Victorian period also saw a growth of middle class interest in housing conditions, with a focus on London's East End. During the 1890s some of the radical clubs, notably those in the East End, affiliated to the Independent Labour Party, and later to the Labour Representation Committee and the Labour Party. The 1880s had seen a radicalisation of the London Liberal Party, with the clubs pushing for more radical policies as well as working class representation in parliament, on the London School Board, and on the London County Council. The main socialist pressure group on housing in the first decade of the 20th century was the Workman's Housing Council.
