Catalogue description Workers Educational Association - Northern District

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of E.WEA1
Reference: E.WEA1
Title: Workers Educational Association - Northern District
Date: 1899 - 1987
Related material:

For records of individual branches, see E.WEA2 - 27.
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Workers Educational Association, Northern District
Physical description: 22 series + 44 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession numbers 2564, 2725
Subjects:
  • Adult education
Administrative / biographical background:

The WEA was the brainchild of Albert Mainsbridge who, with his wife, brought together Trades Unions, Co-operative Societies and the University Extension Movement in 1903 to form the Society for Promoting Higher Education for Working Men. The name was changed, within a few months, to the Workers Educational Association.

 

The Northern District of the WEA was formally established on 29 October 1910.
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