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Mechanics' Institutes Worldwide 2021

 

 

Introductions:

Prof Richard Williams | Principal, Heriot-Watt University

 

Papers:

 

Blair, Kirstie et al. | University of Strathclyde et al.

Mechanics’ Institutes, Literary Culture, and the Victorian Industrial Worker

 

Bourke, Joanna | Birkbeck, University of London

The London Mechanics' Institution: Radical Origins and Useful Knowledges

 

Call, Liz | Rochester Institute of Technology

Stewarding RIT’s Historical Record: Reconstructing the Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People

 

Coates, Ellen and James Baker | Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library and

Melbourne Athenaeum Incorporated

Ama-Zine Mechanics’ : old history, new engagement

 

Cunningham, John | National University of Ireland Galway

The Galway Mechanics Institute

 

Gardner, John | Anglia Ruskin University

Gaslight

 

Hancock, Joelie | Flinders Univ, South Australia

Mechanics Institutes in South Australia: launching institutessa.com

 

Houston, Stephen | Heriot-Watt University

A Mechanics’ Institute's students of today – excellence in engineering

 

Lonsdale, Tom | Marsden Community Trust

Marsden Mechanics

 

Lowden, Jim | Victoria

Henry Brougham and his Practical Observations Upon the Education of People

 

Matfin, Jonny | Birkbeck, University of London

In pursuit of 'Useless Knowledge': Classics at Birkbeck, University of London, 1963-2003

 

Milne, John | Consultant, Denver Colorado

Entropy-based Resource Management: An organizing principle for the development of sustainability strategies.

 

McCausland, Mike Friends of Launceston Mech Inst

Adapting MI principles in an enterprising colonial outpost

 

O’Donohue, Ciarán | Birkbeck, University of London

From Treading the Boards to Mortarboards: Women and the Birkbeck Theatre, 1830 to 1921

 

O’Farrell, Patrick | Heriot-Watt University

Foundation of the World’s First Mechanics’ Institute: Edinburgh School of Arts

 

Roaf, Susan and Anne Ormston |Heriot-Watt University

19th Century spread of Mechanics Institutes across Scotland

 

Scanlon, Lesley | Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts: The Early Years (1833-1850)

 

Schlombs, Corinna | Rochester Institute of Technology

Giving women a practical education: Domestic Science at Rochester Institute of Technology

 

 

Mechanics’ Institutes Worldwide 2021 - Edinburgh was hosted by Heriot-Watt University on 15 October 2021.  Listen to the speaker presentations online here.