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john howard whitehouse: youth work, education and ruskin

John Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955) is now remembered largely as a champion of Ruskin - but he played a significant role in developing work with boys, was active in the settlement movement, served as an MP, and was an innovative educationalist and headmaster.

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Further reading

Evans, Joan and John Howard Whitehouse (eds.) (1956) The Diaries of John Ruskin Volume 1 1835-1847; Volume 2 1848-1873; Volume 3 1874-1889. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1905) Problems of a Scottish Provincial Town (Dunfermline). London: George Allen.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1905) The Boy's Club.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1908) Report of an Enquiry into Working Boys’ Homes in London. By J. H. Whitehouse ... Geoffrey Gordon ... and N. Malcolmson ... With an introduction by E. J. Urwick. Issued under the auspices of the Toynbee Trust and of the National League of Workers with Boys. London: Andrew Fairbairns.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1911) Camping for Boys. London: King and Son.

Whitehouse, John Howard (ed) (1912) Problems of Boy Life. With an introduction by ... John Percival, Bishop of Hereford. London: King and Son.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1913) Essays on Social and Political Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1913) A National System of Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1916) Educational and Social Experiments, conducted under the auspices of the Reform Trust. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.

Whitehouse, John Howard (ed.) (1919) The English Public School: a symposium. London: Grant Richards.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1928) Creative Education at an English School. [With illustrations.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Whitehouse, John Howard (ed.) (1930) Nansen. A book of homage. Edited by J. H. Whitehouse. [With plates, including portraits.] London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1932) A Boy’s Symposium [and two other lectures]. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Whitehouse, John Howard (1943) The School Base, etc. [Suggestions for the location and expansion of elementary and secondary schools.]. London: Oxford University Press.

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