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Marking 100 years since the passing of Joseph Rowntree, learn more

JR100 List

To celebrate 100 years, we have curated 100 notable stories from the archives

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Joseph Rowntree's Funeral

What is Joseph's legacy? Impact in the 100 years since his death...

The Rowntree Society

Who was Joseph Rowntree?

Quaker Concept of God being in Everyone

Quaker Faith

Joseph and Sarah Rowntree

Pavement

Bootham School

Witnessing the Irish potato famine

Apprenticeship

Use of statistics and Quaker attitude to science

Pauperism in England & Wales

The Temperance Problem and Social Reform

Hannah Rowntree

Joseph writes to Hannah Rowntree

Top (Penn) House

First wife - never forgotten by Joseph

Second wife - mainly focused on home and family

Love of Children

John Wilhelm Rowntree

Adult School Movement

Friends Meeting House, Friargate

Caribbean Plantations

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree

Joseph and Seebohm's writings about poverty

Industrial Welfare

"Industrial Unrest - A Way Out"

Tanners Moat Factory

Why chocolate?

Rowntree Products

Haxby Road Factory

Worker Welfare

Cocoa Works Magazines

Joseph's Christmas Letters of Greeting

Liveable Wage

York Gala Balloon

Pension Fund

Profit Sharing Scheme

8 hour day and 5 day working week

After hours activities

Joseph Rowntree Theatre

Company doctor and dentist

Creation of Works Council

Transformation of York from market town to city with industrial base

Oscar Rowntree

Joseph's politics and House of Lords reform

Land reform

Politics vs Philanthropy

Arnold Rowntree

The Story of York Adult Schools

Joseph's attitude to newspaper ownership

Northern Echo, Westminster Press, The Nation

Founder's memorandum

Creation of the Trusts

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JR Memorial Trust)

Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd

Relationship between Trusts & Company at Creation

The Homestead, Homestead Park and the Garden House

University of York

The Borthwick Institute for Archives

Michael Rowntree

Allotments Movement

New Earswick

New Earswick Folk Hall

New Earswick Primary School

Joseph's Views on Wealth

Fred Rowntree

Yearsley Swimming Baths

Rowntree Park

Agnes Macdonald (nee Rowntree)

Strong Family Ties

Winifred Rowntree

Clifton Lodge

Continuing Education

York's Factory Women

Scarborough

The Mount School

Jean's insight on her grandfather

Tessa and Jean Rowntree

Joseph's Love of Travel

International outlook and support for League of Nations

Joseph Stephenson Rowntree

Joseph's Letter to his Children

Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library