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Total number of records: 43

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Brotherton Collection15
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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive8
Herbert Read Collection4
Quaker Collection4
Leeds Russian Archive1

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adult education38
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
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Binns, Henry Bryan1
Binns, Henry Bryan (1873-1923)1
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Brougham, Henry, Baron, 1778-18681
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Australian highway : journal of the Workers' Educational Association (v.45 no.4, winter 1965)

Workers' Educational Association of New South Wales; Workers' Educational Association of Australia

With v. 10, no. 1 Oct. 1927 called new series.

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Bulletin

World Association for Adult Education

no.11 1937 Contains the following articles of Scandinavian interest: Ships' libraries in Norway / by Gunnar Stenersen; Adult education in Scandinavia / by Bjarne Braatoy; Co-operative education in Swe...

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Unbound printed pamphlet "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on 'Past, Present, and Future of the Working Classes, and how to better their condition'

1885

Contains "statement and criticism of the views held by famous political economists; to be given in the New Islington Hall, Ancoats, on Monday, Sept. 7th, and each Monday till Nov. 23rd, 1885, at 7.30"...

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Bound printed pamphlet "John Ruskin's plan for national education.”

No date [1907]

Subtitle “A lecture by M. E. Sadler [...], delivered in St. Margaret's Hall, Dunfermline on November 2, 1907 under the joint auspices of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and the School Board of the Bu...

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Numbered series of lectures belonging to the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, made for the use of various centres

c.1845

Comprises lectures numbers 1, 10, 14-16, 18, 20-21, 23-24,26-27, 29-30, 36, 39, 43-44, 49-51, 55-57, 60-65, 67, 69-72, 74, 80, 87, 89-90, 95, 100-103, and 2 unnumbered lectures

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Ėpizodicheskīi︠a︡ programmy : serīi︠a︡ 1

Komissī︠i︡a po organiza︠t︡sīi domashn︠i︡ago chtenī︠i︡a

1904

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Adult education in an industrial society

Cadbury, George

1952

"Given at Bristol University, September 27th, 1952."

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Association of Tutors in Adult Education correspondence and papers

c.1920-1995

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 ...

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Unbound printed pamphlet "A bureau of education for the British Empire: the scope of its work and the possibility of its organisation"

1907

On page 3: "The substance of the following paper was delivered as an address at a meeting of the Liberal Colonial Club, held at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on December 12, 1906, the Earl of Durham i...

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