Table of Contents

Part 1 Pioneers: Octavia Hill; the Barnetts and the Toynbees; Toynbee Hall and the London School of Economics; young wives at Oxbridge. Part 2 Some settlers, social work and training: Blackfriars Women's University Settlement in Southwark; from Cheltenham and Oxford to London's East End; Lady Margaret Hall Settlement in Lambeth; time and talents - Peckham and Katherine Low Settlements; Mrs Humphry Ward and Mrs Mandell Creighton. Part 3 In Britain and abroad: the Second World War and the Welfare State; Victorian and other Settlements with the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centre; Dame Eileen Younghusband and Community Service today. Appendices: BASSAC members; Women's University Settlement; Settlement members of BASSAC in 1984.

About the Author

Katharine Bentley Beauman was a history scholar at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and after leaving university was Women's Editor of the Yorkshire Post. In the Second World War she became Public Relations Officer in the Air Ministry where she met and married Wing Commander E. Bentley Beauman, a First World War pilot and distinguished mountaineer. She is an established author and her first book, Wings on her Shoulders, was published in 1943 and illustrated by Cecil Beaton. This was followed in 1971 by Partners in Blue - the story of the women's service in the Royal Air Force. In 1978 came Greensleeves, the story of the Women's Voluntary Service, now the RWVS. Mrs Bentley Beauman was for many years Chairman of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement in Lambeth and is now Patron. She is active in the Library Committee at Crosby Hall in Chelsea, involved with the British Federation of University Women and is a school governor.