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1. The Second Coming

   Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850

   By J. F. C. Harrison

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. A History of the Working Men's College

   1854-1954

   By J F C Harrison

   Originally published in 1954, this is the first full-length account of the history of the Working Men’s College in St.Pancras, London. One hundred and fifty years on from its foundation in 1854, it is the oldest adult educational institute in the country. Self-governing and self-financing, it...

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
3. Learning and Living 1790-1960

   A Study in the History of the English Adult Education Movement

   By J F C Harrison

   Originally published in 1961, the book charts the dynamics of successive phases of the adult education movement and shows the social origin and development of the ideas and attitudes of those involved with it....

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge