Ministry of Enthusiasm: Centenary Essays on the Workers' Educational Association Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Brief Chronology of the WEA: The First 100 years
	Illustrations
	Introduction	1
1	The WEA - The Foundation and the Founder	12
2	Battersea and the Formation of the Workers' Educational Association	26
3	The First Students in the Workers' Educational Association: Individual Enlightenment and Collective Advance	41
4	R. H. Tawney and the WEA	59
5	The Evolution of the WEA in the West Midlands, 1905-26	77
6	The Friends and Enemies of the WEA	97
7	'A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall': The National Association and Internationalism 1918-39	111
8	Survival, Growth and Retreat: The WEA in Wartime, 1939-45	131
9	Unions, Adult Education and Post-war Citizenship: The WEA and the Construction of Trade Union Education	153
10	Ideology and Provision: The WEA and the Politics of Workers' Education in Early Twentieth-century Scotland	176
11	The WEA and Workers' Education in Early Twentieth-century Wales	198
12	Women's Involvement in the WEA and Women's Education	215
13	Literature, Cultural Studies and the WEA	238
14	From Day Release to Lifelong Learning: Workplace Education and the WEA after 1964	259
15	WEA Values in the Twenty-first Century	274
16	WEA Voices	292
	Notes on Contributors	312
	Index	314