[Cz-L] Toynbee Hall - Czernowitz

Simon et al:

Google turned up this... Arnold is not the famous Historian but the
social reformer. It seems that Toynbee hall in Czernowitz is an example
of this 'workers education movement'.
jerome

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The social reformer, Arnold Toynbee died when he was only thirty years
old. In 1884 a group of his friends decided to establish Toynbee Hall in
the East End of London, to celebrate his life and work. The settlement
was run by Samuel Augustus Barnett, canon of St. Jude's Church. Situated
in Commercial Street, Whitechapel, Toynbee Hall was Britain's first
university settlement. The idea was to create a place where students
 from Oxford University and Cambridge University could work among, and
improve the lives of the poor during their holidays. 
Most residents held down jobs in the City, or were doing vocational
training, and so gave up their weekends and evenings to do relief work.
This work ranged from visiting the poor and providing free legal aid to
running clubs for boys and holding University Extension lectures and
debates; the work was not just about helping people practically, it was
also about giving them the kinds of things that people in richer areas
took for granted, such as the opportunity to continue their education
past the school leaving age.
Toynbee Hall served as a base for Charles Booth and his group of
researchers working on the Life and Labour of the People in London.
Other individuals who worked at Toynbee Hall include Richard Tawney,
Clement Attlee, Alfred Milner and William Beveridge. 
Lenin attended a debate at Toynbee Hall, Guglielmo Marconi held one of
his earliest experiments in radio there, and Pierre de Coubertin,
founder of the modern Olympic Games, was so impressed by the mixing and
working together of so many people from different nations that it
inspired him to establish the games. 
C.R. Ashbee, one of the people involved in the Arts and Crafts movement,
was a resident in 1888, as was Hubert Llewellyn Smith, who went on to
run New Survey of London Life and Labour for the London School of
Economics in the 1930s. The Whitechapel Art Gallery had its roots in the
art exhibitions held originally in the St. Jude's school rooms. These
exhibitions were intended to bring the art of major galleries to the
people of the East End. The 1926 General Strike came to an end at
Toynbee Hall - the employers and the union leaders met there to discuss
their terms. 
In 1888 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr visited Toynbee Hall and were
so impressed with what they saw that the returned to the United States
and established a similar project, Hull House, in Chicago. The
Settlement Movement grew rapidly both in Britain, the United States and
the rest of the world. The settlements and social action centres work
together through the International Federation of Settlements. 
Toynbee Hall continues to work today towards solving social problems -
developing practical but innovative solutions and then exporting them to
wider society. Many volunteers work at Toynbee Hall, including ones who
are residents. The residents, like those in the nineteenth century, work
during the day or study for postgraduate degrees or to train for careers
in social work or the legal profession, and give up their spare time to
work with elderly people, disadvantaged children and teenagers, the
legal advice centre, and many others. More than ever society needs new
solutions for new social problems and, as we enter the early stages of
the 21st century, Toynbee Hall will continue to develop new programmes
and blaze new trails.
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