On the 15th of October, our website will be launched along with a video presentation at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. It will be part of a day-long program that includes the following papers:
- Foundation of the World’s First Mechanics’ Institute: Edinburgh School of Arts
- The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts: The early years (1833-1850)
- Henry Brougham and his Practical Observations Upon the Education of People
- Adapting MI principles in an enterprising colonial outpost
- Stewarding Rochester Institute of Technology’s Historical Record: Reconstructing the extraordinary lives of ordinary people
- Mechanics’ Institutes, Literary Culture, and the Victorian Industrial Worker
- Mechanics’ Institutes in South Australia: launching institutessa.com
- The London Mechanics’ Institution: Radical Origins and Useful Knowledge
- 19th Century spread of Mechanics Institutes across Scotland
- In pursuit of ‘Useless Knowledge’: Classics at Birkbeck, University of London, 1963-2003
- A Mechanics’ Institute’s students of today – excellence in engineering
After our website is launched in Edinburgh, the short 8-minute video presentation will be available on this site for you to view.