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  1. ‘Earnest students anxious to acquire a practical knowledge suited to the trade of the district’: the growth and development of the mechanics' institute movement with particular reference to Huddersfield 1824–1890

    Article • Journal of Educational Administration & History, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  2. ‘For the last many years in England everybody has been educating the people, but they have forgotten to find them any books’: The Mechanics’ Institutes Library Movement and its Contribution to Working-Class Adult Education during the Nineteenth Century

    Article • Library & Information History, November 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  3. ‘Working-Class' Education: Notions of Widening Participation in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

    Article • Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, September 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  4. A comparative study of awarding organisation and HEI initial teacher training programmes for the lifelong learning sector in England

    Article • Professional Development in Education, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  5. ‘The Yorkshire Union has grown to the most extensive educational confederation in the kingdom’: the growth and distribution of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, 1838–1890

    Article • The Australian Library Journal, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  6. “Encouragement of sound education amongst the industrial classes”: mechanics’ institutes and working-class membership 1838–1881

    Article • Educational Studies, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  7. Teacher Training Qualifications For The Lifelong Learning Sector – A Comparison Of Higher Education Institution And Awarding Body Qualifications

    Article • Teaching in Lifelong Learning, January 2013, University of Huddersfield Press

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  8. ‘It is Only the Instructed and Trained Overlooker and Artisan That Can Successfully Compete against Foreign Skills’: Nineteenth-Century Adult Technical and Vocational Education Offered by the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes and the Foundation ...

    Article • Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, September 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Martyn A Walker

  9. The Origins and Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement 1824 – 1890 and the Beginnings of Further Education

    Article • Teaching in Lifelong Learning, June 2012, University of Huddersfield Press

    Dr Martyn A Walker