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The Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond
The Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond questions the prevailing view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to 1890. The book traces the historical development of several mechanics’ institutes across Britain and reveals that many institutes supported both male and female working-class membership before state intervention at the end of the nineteenth century resulted in the development of further education for all. This book presents evidence to suggest that the movement remained active and continued to expand until the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on historical...
Mechanics' Institutes
This introduction sets out the origins and evolution of the mechanics institute, a nineteenth century phenomenon, emerging from the 1820s and continuing into the years preceding the First World War. The institutes were the product of the Industrial Revolution which had created demand for a workforce to manage its machinery, to tend, repair and improve the complex mechanisation that revolutionised our output. They provided education for the working man through lending libraries, lecture theatres, class rooms and laboratories and often included in the mix of courses and technical material, wider opportunities for learning and betterment. The concept was a successful one and by mid-century there were several hundred mechanics institutes gracing England's major urban centres. A significant proportion were purpose-built, showing an investment in the nation's workforce and the priority given to the initiative. Around 75 are listed, at least one third of which have found a compatible re-use and continue to illustrate, in their dignified variety, the commendable efforts made towards adult education in Queen Victoria's reign.
The Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire Before 1851
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Lectures Chiefly on Subjects Relating to Literary and Scientific and Mechanics' Institutes
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
These Walls Speak Volumes
History of approx.1,000 institutes including building status, social, adult education, library history, heritage listings, plus thematic essays about the MI movement, role of women, architecture, schools of art, schools of design and schools of mines. This is the most comprehensive study of mechanics' institutes in Victoria.
