Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals)

The First Hundred Years

Asa Briggs, Anne Macartney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136464539
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

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.

Notes

I Time and Place: the Victorian Prelude

1 N. Williams, Chronology of the Modern World (1966), p. 333.

2 W. S. Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, Vol. I (1906), pp. 268–9.

3 R. H. Gretton, A Modern History of the British People (1913), p. 11.

4 Dilke Papers, Add. MSS. 43937, f. 174.

5 Lord Salisbury, ‘Labourers’ and Artisans ‘Dwellings’ in the National Review, November 1883.

6 Dilke Papers, Add. MSS. 43938, f. 53.

7 J. Chamberlain, The Radical Programme (1885), pp. v–vii.

8 R. Woods, English Social Movements (1892), p. 173.

9 See the valuable recent edition of the pamphlet and related commentary, including some critical assessments, edited with introduction and notes, by A. S. Wohl, (Victorian Library, Leicester University Press, 1970). For Sims, see the articles written in The Pictorial World earlier in 1883 and other pieces reprinted in How the Poor Live and Horrible London (1889).

10 W. T. Stead, Pall Mall Gazette, 16 October 1883.

11 Quoted in J. A. R. Pimlott, Toynbee Hall, Fifty Years of Social Progress, 1883–1934 (1935), p. 30. See also the new periodical, which first appeared in that year, the Oxford Magazine 31 October 1883. Half the sermons reported in the Magazine in 1883 dealt with social issues.

12 The full address is reprinted as the first appendix, in Pimlott, op. cit, pp. 266–73. For its prophetic appeal, see Henry Scott Holland in Commonwealth, July 1913.

13 Illustrated London News, 22 December 1883.

14 T. Okey, A Basketful of Memories (1930), p. 56.

15 See L. Stephen, Letters of John Richard Green (1901); and K. S. Inglis, Churches and The Working Classes in Victorian England (1961), pp. 143–75.

16 Denison’s ideas on the subject were set out in the cheap edition of his Letter and Other Writings, published (significantly) in the year 1884. Denison had died in 1870.

17 The Times, 27 March 1882. For a recent study of Green, see M. Richter, The Politics of Conscience: T. H. Green and His Age (1966): Green died on 26 March 1882. For Toynbee, see his Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, Popular Addresses and Other Fragments, with a reminiscence by Alfred Milner (1894). See also Milner to G. W. E. Russell, 10 March 1883, on Toynbee’s death: ‘The sight and thought of human suffering and sin tortured him and he was too clear-headed and too fair-minded to find the relief that some men, equally sensitive, have found in mere denunciations or in the construction of Utopias’ (Toynbee Hal...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I Time and Place: The Victorian Prelude
• II Samuel Barnett and his Friends, 1884-1913
• III Beveridge and After, 1903-1919
• IV The Mallon Years, 1919-1954
• V Unfinished Agenda, 1954-1984
• Appendix: Wardens and Chairmen of Toynbee Hall
• Notes
• Index