Author: University of CambridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
Cambridge University Reporter
Author: University of CambridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Toynbee Record
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChrisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2054
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
Book Description
Two Speeches in the House of Commons on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Author: William Dougal ChristiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Andover Review
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
The Educational year book. [5 issues].
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Author: Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London
Author: Geoffrey A. C. GinnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351732803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title ******************************** The Late-Victorian cultural mission to London’s slums was a peculiar effort towards social reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds of art exhibitions, concerts of fine music, evening lectures, clubs and socials, debates and excursions mounted for the benefit of impoverished and working-class Londoners. Ginn’s vivid and provocative book captures many of these in detail for the first time. In refreshing our understanding of this obscure but eloquent activism, Ginn approaches cultural philanthropy not simply as a project of class self-interest, nor as fanciful ‘missionary aestheticism.’ Rather, he shows how liberal aspirations towards adult education and civic community can be traced in a number of centres of moralising voluntary effort. Concentrating on Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, the People’s Palace in Mile End, Red Cross Hall in Southwark and the Bermondsey Settlement, the discussion identifies the common impulses animating practical reformers across these settings. Drawing on new primary research to clarify reformers’ underlying intentions and strategies, Ginn shows how these were shaped by a distinctive diagnosis of urban deprivation and anomie. In rebutting the common view that cultural philanthropy was a crudely paternalistic attempt to impose ‘rational recreation’ on the poor, this volume explores its sources in a liberal-minded social idealism common to both religious and secular conceptions of social welfare in this period. Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London appeals to students and researchers of Victorian culture, moral reform, urbanism, adult education and philanthropy, who will be fascinated by this underrated but lively aspect of the period’s social activism.