Following Jim's piece on the WEA in New Zealand it might be interesting to check out this post that I wrote a year or two ago on the Mechanics Institutes of Australia, a very similar kind of adult education movement. (A couple of the links are dead).
Possibly the Scottish presence in NZ contributed to the enthusiasm for education!
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Your original post was interesting, Rafe.
Do you know what the differences were between literary institutes, mechanics institutes and schools of arts? I have always wondered.
I have some material written on the Free Libary Movement in NSW. I will put this up at some point.
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