Concept    From 1884 

Settlements

Categories: Social Welfare

Concept

The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbours. The settlement houses provided services such as daycare, education, food, shelter and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas.

The first settlement was Toynbee Hall founded in Whitechapel in 1884. Also see: Brady Settlement; Bermondsey Settlement; Blackfriars Settlement, Robert Browning Settlement; Katherine Lowe Settlement; St George's Settlement.

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Settlements

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Mr  Robert S. Watlin

Mr Robert S. Watlin

Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Lewis "Daddy" H. Burtt

Lewis "Daddy" H. Burtt

Brother of John Burtt. They had been found on the street and were educated in a Ragged School themselves. Founder of Hoxton Market Christian Mission.

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Commissioners of Sewers

Commissioners of Sewers

The City of London was well in advance of other parts of London when it came to sewerage.

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Olive Morris

Olive Morris

Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...

Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands

2 memorials
Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Vicereine of India and director of emergency relief services. Born Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley at 32 Bruton Street. A leading member of London society, she married Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1922....

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Borneo, India

2 memorials

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Widening Long Acre

Widening Long Acre

WC2, Long Acre, 78

Eight feet of ground from the stone of this house were given by the Mercers' Company in the year 1835 for the purpose of widening the ent...

2 subjects commemorated
T. J. Boakes
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John James Baddeley

John James Baddeley

Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.  The photo shows him as Mayor of London, 1921. 2022: Spitalfields Life has splendid post all about Baddeley and his work. Aged 14 he was appre...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll

Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll

Born at Buckingham Palace, sixth child of Queen Victoria. Was a talented sculptress taught, and possibly more, by Joseph Boehm. In 1871 caused a stir by marrying John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, M...

Person, Royalty, Sculpture, Canada

9 memorials
Peter De Wint

Peter De Wint

Water colour painter.  Born Stoke-on-Trent.  Came to London to study painting.  Died at home, 40 Upper Gower Street.

Person, Art

1 memorial