Every day a school day

Penn House, a building owned by Bootham School, is to feature in BBC film on unemployment planned for broadcast this summer.
The building was donated to the school in 1920 by Joseph Rowntree and was then named Penn House.

It was from this address that Joseph Rowntree signed his 1904 memorandum, assigning his personal wealth to the three trusts he founded in his name (today known as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust). The main subject of the film is Joseph’s son Benjamin Seebohm.

Journalist Andrew Marr recently described Seebohm Rowntree’s Poverty, a Study of Town Life as the most important book written in the whole of the twentieth century. Winston Churchill admitted that it had had a profound effect on his thinking.

Over the years, over forty pupils with the Rowntree name have attended the Bootham School.

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