Hold Everything Dear : Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

Grounded in personal experience, Eviction uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Britain. In 2017, Jessica Field’s parents and more than a hundred of their neighbours received warning of imminent eviction. Their corporate landlord intended to demolish their affordable, privately rented homes to replace them with middle-class houses for sale. Led by the women of the estate, tenants launched an anti-eviction campaign to save their close-knit community from destruction. The neighbourhood was the last remnant of a 1950s National Coal Board estate constructed to house local miners. When the coal industry declined in the 1970s, whole estates were auctioned off to speculators. Low-income tenants were at the mercy of global investors. Houses were left to rot. Rents soared. Tenants were exploited every step of the way. Yet time and again, tenant activists – especially women – fought back. Eviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.

Product Information

Author: Jessica Field
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 16/09/2025
Pagination: 288 pages, B/W images throughout
Series: N/A
Imprint: Verso Books
Published By: Verso Books
Book Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain
Dimensions: 149 x 219 x 25
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781804298886