Association of Tutors in Adult Education correspondence and papers

Description

Includes: i) 17 box files of paper and correspondence of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education, ca.1920-1995, together with a modern index; ii) other miscellaneous papers; iii) Bulletin of the World Association for Adult Education, nos 1-50, 1919-1931 (wanting no. 42), and 2nd series, nos 1-44, 1935-1946; iv) Bulletin of the the Tutors' Association (later, the Association of Tutors in Adult Education), nos 18-33, 1926-1931; new series, nos 1-22, 1931-1939; 22 unnumbered issues, June 1943-Spring 1951; nos 84-105 (1951-1956); and The tutors' bulletin for adult education, vols 1-7 (1978-1984); v) miscellaneous publications of related bodies, including the Universities Extra-Mural Consultative Committee


Includes typescript and printed items.

Biography or history

The Association of Tutors in Adult Education, which began in the early 1920s as the Tutors' Association, had links with the Co-operative Movement and the Workers' Educational Association. The World Association for Adult Education was founded in London in 1919, with the stated purpose 'to dispel the melancholy belief that grown men and women have nothing left to learn'. Its first chairman was Albert Mansbridge and the provisional committee included Margaret McMillan.

Provenance

Originally from the library of Professor J.S. Marriott.

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