Author: T. S. PeppinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Club-land of the Toiler
Author: T. S. PeppinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Our Fifty Years: the Story of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union
Author: Benjamin Tom HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Substitutes for the Saloon
Author: Raymond CalkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
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.
Finding List
Author: The Open Shelf
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryCanon Barnett, Warden of the First University Settlement, Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, London
Author: Dame Henrietta Octavia Rowland BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance
Author: Robert LeachPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429873336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.