The Rowntree Society

• Introduction
• Joseph Rowntree biography
• Why did Joseph Rowntree have such a big funeral?
  • Tell me a bit more
• Seebohm Rowntree & Poverty
• Writing to persuade
  • Tell me a bit more
  • 1911 speech
    • Looking more closely at sections of the speech
      • Task 1: Rhetorical
      • Task 2: Statistics
      • Task 3: Emotive language
    • Writing to persuade
    • Notes for teachers
• Quotations
• A Rowntree Walk
• Ideas for activities
• Primary Sources
  • The Cocoa Works in 1925
  • Illuminated 80th Birthday Address
  • Quotations from Joseph Rowntree
  • Letters of Condolence
• Glossary
• Notes for teachers

Find out more...

• The Rowntree Family
• Rowntree Walks
• View the Joseph Rowntree 3Sixty Installation Video