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Squires in the Slums - Settlements and Missions in Late Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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Squires in the Slums - Settlements and Missions in Late Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
Series: International Library of Historical Studies, v. 45
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Settlements were a distinctive aspect of late-Victorian church life
in which individual philanthropic Christians were encouraged to
live and work in communities amongst the poor and set an example
for the underprivileged through their own actions. Often overlooked
by historians, settlements are of great value in understanding the
values and culture of the 19th century.
Settlement missions were first conceived when Samuel Barnett, the
incumbent of St Jude's, Whitechapel, in the East End of London,
sought to introduce them as a major aspect of Victorian church
life. Barnett argued that settlers should be incorporated into
London communities that suffered from squalor and poverty to live
and work alongside the poor, to demonstrate their Christian faith
and attempt to enhance social conditions from the inside. His first
recruits were Oxford undergraduates and when Toynbee Hall was
founded in Oxford in 1884, his radical vision of adapting Christian
morality towards tackling social deprivation had begun. By the end
of the Victorian era more than fifty similar institutions had been
created.
Whilst few settlements lasted beyond the Victorian period, by
injecting Christian ethics into trade unions, local government and
the community, they had a huge impact which is still felt in the
way these organisations operate today.
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