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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