Letchworth Settlement, 1920-2020: A Century of Creative Learning

Letchworth Settlement, an independent adult education centre, is one of the treasures of the world’s first garden city. Starting life as Letchworth Adult Education Settlement, it soon became part of the wider Educational Settlement Association, following the example of Toynbee Hall in London, and is now one of few such institutions still up and running. In its early days, the Settlement embodied the ideals of the young garden city with its ethos of self-help. There was a strong belief that ...