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  • Home
  • About Us
    • About The Rowntree Society
    • Purpose and Values
    • People
    • News
    • FAQs
    • Contact
  • Blog
    • Researching Joseph Rowntree: Quaker, Philanthropist, Industrialist, Social Innovator
    • Gulielma Harlock: ‘Private Secretary and Jack of all Trades’
    • Brynhild Benson: Star of the Cocoa Works Stage
    • Tessa Rowntree, 1909-1999: Caring Humanitarian and ‘Tough Girl’
    • Michael Rowntree: Birdwatching from Pembrokeshire to Palestine
    • Jean Rowntree’s Travel Diaries
    • Rowntree’s, York, and the 1918 Flu Pandemic: A New Blog Series
      • 1. A Forgotten History through a Rowntree Lens
      • 2. Care and Community: York and the Second Wave
  • Our Work
    • Our Current Projects
      • Rowntree Colonial Histories and Legacies
        • Statement on Rowntree Colonial Histories
        • Rowntree’s Caribbean Plantations
        • From Kit Kats to Colonialism: A Rowntree Research Journey
        • History Unsweetened: Festival of Ideas
      • Rowntree Political Connections & Influences
        • Newspapers as a political tool: The Rowntree family and the problem of the Liberal Press
        • “Come, Let Us Reason Together”: Trade Unions at Rowntree’s in the 1920s
    • Past Projects
      • Joseph Rowntree Centenary
      • Historical Perspectives of Homelessness Exhibition
      • York Trailblazers
      • York’s Factory Women
      • New Rowntree Histories
      • 28 Pavement Heritage Project
      • Seebohm Rowntree and Industrial Welfare
      • Research the Rowntree Archives
      • Lawrence Rowntree Exhibition
      • Blue Plaques in York with a Rowntree Connection
      • Takeover Fever Cartoon Exhibition
      • Bringing the Rowntree Leisure Time Interviews to Life
      • Rowntree History Trail
      • York Remembers Rowntree
      • Cocoa Works Magazine Cataloguing Project
  • Explore Rowntree History
    • Our Publications
    • Rowntree Timeline
    • Rowntree A – Z
    • Five Rowntree Walks in York
    • Researching Rowntree
    • Short Films
  • Get Involved
    • Student Placements and Internships
    • Volunteering Opportunities
    • Further Research Needed
  • Support Us
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