Author: Cecil Scrimgeour, M.A.
Title: The History of the North Staffs. District of the Workers' Education Association. Fifty Years A-Growing. Author's presentation copy to Charles Tomlinson.
Description: Stoke on Trent, 1974. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 130 pages, with appedices and index. Original card covers as issued. Covers the foundation as part the 1920s Miners' Higher Education movement through to the influence of A.D.Lindsay, R.H. Tawney, and the work of Roy Shaw. A detailed and uncommon history of an influential, and at the time, uniquely accessible education resource for working people, dominated of course by an elite middle class. From the collection of Prof. Charles Tomlinson, 1927-2015, English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator. He retired, Emeritus Professor, having spent thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University. Over 30 volumes of his work were published before his death, and 7 works have been published about the man and his writing. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; Inventory No: 361041.

Keywords: BZDB395 Booklets & Pamphlets; Unbranded Cecil Scrimgeour, M.A. The History of the North Staffs. District of the Workers' Education Association. Fifty Years A-Growing. Author's presentation copy to Charles Tomlinson.


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