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This research will seek to explore the meanings of past places and spaces of emancipatory adult education in the UK, and particularly adult residential education which was especially significant as it is estimated that thirty-five to forty such residential colleges were created during and immediately after the Second World War, often in the former homes of the aristocracy, to meet a growing need for second chance and broad-based education for adults.

This living history archive is an output of the research based on oral history interviews (film and voice recordings) and documentary/archival research which will form part of this sustained website hosted by sharonclancy.co.uk.