John Boughton
Social historian of council housing, author of the Municipal Dreams blog and of books on the subject.
PersonSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Identity, blog authorship and books.
- The Courtauld: A History of Council Housing Design and Planning
Historian with a PhD in social history from Warwick; former teacher; began the Municipal Dreams blog; author of Municipal Dreams (Verso, 2018) and A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates (RIBA Publishing, 2022).
What this check doesn’t establish
- No Wikidata entity was found for this John Boughton; the identifier is null after a search.
- Profession records the doctoral training in history rather than his teaching career.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
The essay names him, with a link to his blog, as a defender of post-war council estates as homes and as history.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
Read the essay
Sources
- Municipal Dreams
Works
Record history
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