The Toynbee Travellers' Club and the Transnational Education of Citizens, 1888-90
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 137-159 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbs053 |
| OpenAlex | W2152422508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
By focusing on the experience of the first continental tours organised by Toynbee Hall (London’s first University Settlement, in Whitechapel), this paper contributes towards modifying some of the stereotypes associated with the ‘English’, travel and Italy. The case-study here analysed argues that the early guides of the Toynbee Hall Travellers’ Club saw adult education tours as an opportunity to impart a transnational education give British ‘citizens’. The attraction of visiting liberal Italy was closely linked with the aims of co-operatives travel: combining cheap travel with educational purpose. It was also linked with the desire to witness the signs of social and educational progress in a young democracy coming of age. This article analyses the untypical ‘gaze’ of these pioneering ‘co-operative travellers’, arguing that the rhetoric of European democracy and ‘humanity’ – disseminated at Toynbee Hall by Giuseppe Mazzini’s Victorian admirers – provided adult learners (men and women) with a mental map which informed their experience of ‘foreign’ encounters. Indeed their journeys to Italy allowed Toynbee Hall travellers to transcend the conventional ‘picturesque’, ‘orientalist’ readings of the Italian ‘character’ deeply seated in the cultural imagination of traditional Grand Tour consumers and more recent bourgeois ‘tourists’.
Club · Contextualization · Democracy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Witness · Australian History and Society · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
The Risorgimento revisited
Italy's "Southern Question"
Mazzini's Transnational Legacy amongst British Co-operators ( c .1885-1949)
Portable Boundaries
Class Trips and the Meaning of British Citizenship
Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
Toynbee Hall
Political Debate, Social History, and the Italian Borghesia
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |