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This
book is a history of the first fifty years of the Joseph Rowntree
Charitable Trust (JRCT), one of three trusts established by the
Quaker philanthropist Joseph Rowntree in 1904. It focuses on the
contribution of the JRCT to adult education in these years, in particular
the educational settlement movement with which Rowntree and his
trustees were closely associated. It relates the settlements to
the work of other adult education providers, and assesses their
educational philosophy and impact. The book also makes a contribution
to the wider history of the Society of Friends in modern Britain,
exploring, for example, the JRCT's role in the promotion of the
Society's peace testimony and its support for an itinerant Quaker
ministry. It traces the evolution of Quaker philanthropy, and examines
how Friends' social concerns were affected by the historical circumstances
of the first half of the twentieth century, including two world
wars, the mass unemployment of the 1930s and the emergence of the
modern welfare state.
I have
also published articles in History of Education and Quaker
Studies on various aspects of adult education in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Two of these are jointly authored, with
Dr Jonathan S. Davies, who is now at Warwick Business School. Click
here to see a full list of my publications.
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