The JR100 List

To celebrate 100 years, we have curated 100 notable stories from the archives.

Joseph Rowntree's Funeral

001

What is Joseph's legacy? Impact in the 100 years since his death...

002

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