Toynbee Hall

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136464530
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals) written by Asa Briggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Toynbee Hall, The First Hundred Years is not just a centenary study, but a personal contribution to the continuing history of Toynbee Hall, which is the Universities’ settlement in East London, and an institution that has inspired respect and affection. Its pioneering role as a residential community living and working in the heart of one of London’s most deprived areas has been maintained. Called a ‘social workshop’ by its late chairman John Profumo, Toynbee Hall promotes ventures such as Free Legal Advice, the Workers Educational Association, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The book looks at the social changes that have taken place over the 100 years since Toynbee Hall was founded in 1884, but also notes curious parallels, with persistent patterns of poverty, deprivation, squalor and racial separation which characterise the area. Questions about the facts and perceptions of poverty, the nature of community, the visual as well as the social environment, and the roles of voluntary, local and national statutory policy still require answers.

Author : Dame Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canon Barnett, Warden of the First University Settlement, Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, London written by Dame Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toynbee Hall written by Asa Briggs and published by London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul. This book was released on 1984 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of College, Social, University and Church Settlements written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Alfred Ralph Pimlott
Publisher : London : J.M. Dent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toynbee Hall, Fifty Years of Social Progress, 1884-1934 written by John Alfred Ralph Pimlott and published by London : J.M. Dent. This book was released on 1935 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah McDonald
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786430184
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper written by Deborah McDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many attempts to discover Jack the Ripper's identity, few omit the name of James Kenneth Stephen, tutor to Queen Victoria's eldest grandson, fondly known as Prince Eddy. While Stephen superficially fit the profile investigators established, was he really capable of the demented violence perpetrated by England's most famous serial killer? This volume takes an in-depth look at the life and experiences of James Kenneth Stephen, examining the relevant evidence and attempting to determine whether or not Stephen could actually have been involved in the Ripper murders. Delving into what little is known of Stephen's early years, the work discusses his relationship with his mother and his family's struggle with a hereditary mental illness. It follows him through his formative years at Eton, which he considered his true home and where he was introduced to the Greek notion of homosexuality. The work's primary focus is Stephen's relationship with Prince Eddy, who also became a suspect in the infamous London murders. The way in which Stephen's life intertwined with those of Prince Eddy and Montague Druitt, another Ripper suspect, is examined in detail. Other incidents of the fateful fall of 1888 and Stephen's final surrender to mental illness are also discussed. Appendices contain Stephen's poetry and details regarding his family ancestry.

Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214026
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policy in the United States written by Theda Skocpol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and political alliances, can illuminate the limits and possibilities of American social policymaking both past and present. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to social spending and suggests why President Clinton's health care agenda was so quickly attacked despite the support of most Americans for his goals.

Author : Mrs. S. A. Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canon Barnett, Warden of the First University Settlement, Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, London written by Mrs. S. A. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to the concepts of quantum mechanics the knowledge of which is necessary for a good understanding of the dynamics of quantum oscillator which may be damped, and deals with time independent quantum mechanics and time dependent quantum mechanics"--

Author : Seth Koven
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691128006
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slumming written by Seth Koven and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226447014
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen written by Louise W. Knight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. “Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune