Slum children in York, 1900. Their plight was highlighted in Seebohm Rowntree’s report Poverty revisited in the programme. Photo: Photo courtesy the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The making of modern Britain
The Quaker who told it like it was
Television: The Making of Modern Britain BBC 2. When Victoria died at the beginning of the twentieth century, ‘New Dawn’ thinking was inevitable. Great Britain was about to undergo traumatic changes. One was a shock to the empire, when it took Britain two years to defeat not very many Afrikaners in the Boer war – a hint of the strategy of guerrilla warfare that was to become so successful in battle right up to the present. Britain introduced a new phenomenon to the world – concentration camps, in which thousands of Boer women and children died. And then there was Seebohm Rowntree.
