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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Mechanics Institutes"”.
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‘The Road to Learning’: Re-evaluating the Mechanics’ Institute Movement
… learning” for workers in the nineteenth century. Mechanics’ institutes emerged during the 1820s to both criticism and acclaim, becoming part of the physical and intellectual fabric of the age and inspiring a nationwide building programme funded entirely by public subscription. Beginning with a …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
… existed in Britain and Ireland - ranging from Mechanics' Institutes to parish libraries, are described. In Ireland the belief that books could rehabilitate the countryside and revive the National spirit gained rural libraries the support of agricultural co-operators and cultural nationalists. …
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Pressure groups and government policy on education, 1800 - 1839.
… in standard of learning, the development of Mechanics' Institutes, the Society for the Difflision of Useful Knowledge and the foundation of University College are viewed as part of a strategy for the general promotion of adult education1 The dominant personality of Henry Brougham is evident …