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Book Reviews / Social Sciences and Missions 23 (2010) 301–310 309 Nigel Scotland, Squires in the Slums: Settlements and Missions in Late-Victorian London , London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007, xiii + 266 pp., hbk: £59.50 / US$ 85.00, ISBN 9781845113360. Drawing upon the legacy of F. D. Maurice and the earlier Christian Socialists, launched in light of the incapability of English parish organization to meet the religious and social needs preva- lent in London’s poorest slums, and seen as instruments of social, educational, legal, and politi- cal innovation, the university missions and settlement houses of late Victorian London are of interest from several points of view. Th ey provide a case study in the creation of a communitar- ian ethos in the face of serial leadership and frequently even higher rates of turnover in “resi- dents,” primarily university and public school men, later also women, who joined in the work. Melding the energies and aspirations of quasi-volunteers for the sake of concerted engagement with the needs of the poor among whom the missions were located demanded energetic leaders. Th ey necessarily had to possess breadth of vision and to infl uence by personal example. Th e
Social Sciences and Missions (preceeded by Le Fait Missionaire until 2006) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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