Toynbee Hall

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Toynbee Hall 1902.

Toynbee Hall is the name of the first neighborhood and education center under the settlement movement . The institution was founded in 1884 by Henrietta Barnett and her husband Samuel Augustus Barnett in the East End of London and still exists today. It was named after the British economist and social reformer Arnold Toynbee , who died the year before the facility opened. Toynbee Hall was a model for other foundations, especially for the Hull House in Chicago , which Jane Addams built after a visit to London.

The historic Toynbee Hall is referred to in many representations as a university settlement because future academics from higher social classes settled with it in the residential area of ​​the poor and offered neighborhood help and further training opportunities there.

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