The JR100 List
To celebrate 100 years, we have curated 100 notable stories from the archives.
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What is Joseph's legacy? Impact in the 100 years since his death...
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The Rowntree Society
003
Who was Joseph Rowntree?
004
Quaker Concept of God being in Everyone
005
Quaker Faith
006
Joseph and Sarah Rowntree
007
Pavement
008
Bootham School
009
Witnessing the Irish potato famine
010
Apprenticeship
011
Use of statistics and Quaker attitude to science
012
Pauperism in England & Wales
013
The Temperance Problem and Social Reform
014
Hannah Rowntree
015
Joseph writes to Hannah Rowntree
016
Top (Penn) House
017
First wife - never forgotten by Joseph
018
Second wife - mainly focused on home and family
019
Love of Children
020
John Wilhelm Rowntree
021
Adult School Movement
022
Friends Meeting House, Friargate
023
Caribbean Plantations
024
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
025
Joseph and Seebohm's writings about poverty
026
Industrial Welfare
027
"Industrial Unrest - A Way Out"
028
Tanners Moat Factory
029
Why chocolate?
030
Rowntree Products
031
Haxby Road Factory
032
Worker Welfare
033
Cocoa Works Magazines
034
Joseph's Christmas Letters of Greeting
035
Liveable Wage
036
York Gala Balloon
037
Pension Fund
038
Profit Sharing Scheme
039
8 hour day and 5 day working week
040
After hours activities
041
Joseph Rowntree Theatre
042
Company doctor and dentist
043
Creation of Works Council
044
Transformation of York from market town to city with industrial base
045
Oscar Rowntree
046
Joseph's politics and House of Lords reform
047
Land reform
048
Politics vs Philanthropy
049
Arnold Rowntree
050
The Story of York Adult Schools
051
Joseph's attitude to newspaper ownership
052
Northern Echo, Westminster Press, The Nation
053
Founder's memorandum
054
Creation of the Trusts
055
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
056
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JR Memorial Trust)
057
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd
058
Relationship between Trusts & Company at Creation
059
The Homestead, Homestead Park and the Garden House
060
University of York
061
The Borthwick Institute for Archives
062
Michael Rowntree
063
Allotments Movement
064
New Earswick
065
New Earswick Folk Hall
066
New Earswick Primary School
067
Joseph's Views on Wealth
068
Fred Rowntree
069
Yearsley Swimming Baths
070
Rowntree Park
071
Agnes Macdonald (nee Rowntree)
072
Strong Family Ties
073
Winifred Rowntree
074
Clifton Lodge
075
Continuing Education
076
York's Factory Women
077
Scarborough
078
The Mount School
079
Jean's insight on her grandfather
080
Tessa and Jean Rowntree
081
Joseph's Love of Travel
082
International outlook and support for League of Nations
083
Joseph Stephenson Rowntree
084
Joseph's Letter to his Children
085
Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library
086
The Retreat
087
Joseph awarded Freedom of the City of York
088
"Man of the Millennium"
089
The Rowntree Legacy: Analysis of Poverty and the Concept of the Poverty Cycle
090
The Rowntree Legacy: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
091
The Rowntree Legacy: Affordable and Sustainable Housing
092
The Rowntree Legacy: Low Pay and a Liveable Wage
093
The Rowntree Legacy: Pioneers in industrial Welfare
094
The Rowntree Legacy: Economic Contribution to York
095
The Rowntree Legacy; Pioneering Interest in Design and Architecture
096
The Rowntree Legacy: The Joseph Rowntree Trusts
097
The Rowntree Legacy: Joseph's Family and Descendants
098
The Rowntree Legacy: Quaker faith
099
Joseph Rowntree: 1836 - 1925
100