Toynbee Hall : Fifty Years of Social Progress, 1884-1934

xx, 316pp, with a plate portrait frontispiece and further monochrome plate illustrations. Plan on rear endpaper. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips). Text block edges a little darkened. Ex library copy with library markings on endpapers and copyright page. Slightly loosened, and a hint of page toning. A history Toynbee Hall, established in East London in 1884 by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, in response to a growing realisation that enduring social change could not be achieved through existing piecemeal efforts. Their radical vision was to create a place for future leaders to live and work as volunteers in London’s East End, bringing them face to face with poverty, and giving them the opportunity to develop practical solutions that they could take with them into national life. Many of those who came to Toynbee Hall as young men and women – including Clement Attlee and William Beveridge – went on to effect radical social change. Toynbee continues today working alongside people facing poverty and injustice in East London. 8vo.