The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London

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the spiv and the architect This page intentionally left blank the spiv and the architect Unruly Life in Postwar London richard hornsey university of minnesota press minneapolis • london An earlier version of chapter 1 was published as “‘Everything Is Made of Atoms’: The Reprogramming of Space and Time in Post-War London,” Journal of Historical Geography 34, no. 1 (2008): 94–117; copyright 2008; reprinted with permission from Elsevier Ltd. An earlier version of chapter 2 was published as “The Queer (Spatial) Economies of The Lavender Hill Mob,” Journal of British Cinema and Television 5, no. 1 (2008): 38–52; reprinted by permission of Edinburgh University Press, http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jbctv. An earlier version of chapter 3 was published as “Francis Bacon at the Photobooth: Facing the Homosexual in Post-War Britain,” Visual Culture in Britain 8, no. 2 (2007): 83–104; reprinted by permission of Manchester University Press. An earlier version of chapter 4 was published as “The Sexual Geographies of Reading in Post-War London,” Gender, Place, and Culture 9, no. 4 (2002); reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis, Ltd., http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, and as “Of Public Libraries and Paperbacks: ‘Deviant’ Masculinities and the Spatial Practices of Reading in Post-War London,” in Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War and Contemporary British Literature, ed. Daniel Lea and Berthold Schoene-Harwood (New York and Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2003), 35–54. Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been included, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2010 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald. The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / Richard Hornsey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8166-5314-0 (hc : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8166-5315-7 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Homosexuality—England—London—History—20th century. 2. Reconstruction (1939–1951)—England—London. 3. Urban policy—England—London—History— 20th century. 4. London (England)—Social conditions—20th century. 5. London (England)—Social life and customs—20th century. I. Title. hq76.3.g72l655 2010 363.4´90942109045—dc22 2009052922 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for my parents Brian and Jenny and in memory of Dorothy “Baa” Langridge (1908–2008) This page intentionally left blank ...