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Irene Pickup receiving her award at the TUC Woman’s Conference 1926

“Come, Let Us Reason Together”: Trade Unions at Rowntree & Co. in the 1920s Part 4: Irene Pickup

Hawksby presenting a casket of chocolates

“Come, Let Us Reason Together”: Trade Unions at Rowntree & Co. in the 1920s Part 3: Fred Hawksby

Transport workers at the Cocoa Works unloading fruit in 1920

“Come, Let Us Reason Together”: Trade Unions at Rowntree & Co. in the 1920s Part 2: The 1926 General Strike

Cover of the Human Factor In Business

“Come, Let Us Reason Together”: Trade Unions at Rowntree & Co. in the 1920s Part 1

Newspaper cover

Newspapers as a political tool: The Rowntree family and the problem of the Liberal Press

Joseph Rowntree's Funeral

Joseph Rowntree’s Funeral

Joseph Rowntree Centenary Portrait

Researching Joseph Rowntree: Quaker, Philanthropist, Industrialist, Social Innovator

Photo Album dedication: (New Earswick) Photograph Album Presented to Guiliemia Harlock from friends at New Earswick in remembrance, 1902-1918

Gulielma Harlock: 'Private Secretary and Jack of all Trades'

Brynhild Benson

Brynhild Benson: Star of the Cocoa Works Stage

Tessa at Christmas, black and white

Tessa Rowntree, 1909-1999: Caring Humanitarian and ‘Tough Girl’

Michael Rowntree: Birdwatching from Pembrokeshire to Palestine

a photograph of a drawing Jean did of flowers in Jamaica

Jean Rowntree's Travel Diaries

Nurses and patients on the open-air ward of the York Fever Hospital in the 1910s

2. Care and Community: York and the Second Wave

Rear view of an open-air ward at the York Fever Hospital in the 1910s

Rowntree, York, and the 1918 Flu Pandemic: A New Blog Series

An unwell woman lying in her bed with a young child

1. A Forgotten History through a Rowntree Lens

York Post Mark

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