Blackfriars Settlement

Clergyman Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta founded Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street in the London slum of Whitechapel, the first settlement house designed as a centre of help for the local poor, run...

A paper by Henrietta Barnett at the Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society led to the foundation that year of the Women's University Settlement in Southwark, the first settlement for women.

A paper by Henrietta Barnett at the Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society led to the foundation that year of the Women's University Settlement in Southwark, the first settlement for women.