This panel is about Robert Owen’s pioneering efforts in education and factory reform. At New Lanark, he improved workers' conditions, banned child labour under ten, and introduced kind, play-based education. He founded the Institute for the Formation of Character and promoted the idea that social progress comes through better education, fair work hours, and humane treatment.

This exhibition panel is from the ‘Robert Owen Utopian Legacy Exhibition’, originally held at Newtown Library in May of 2025, on the life and legacy of Robert Owen (1771-1858) the philanthropic Welsh Business & Social Entrepreneur and pioneer of infant education and the co-operative movement.