The London Adult School Union

Jonathan Lingham writes about Friends and an educational movement

by Jonathan Lingham 2nd November 2018

As Westminster Meeting prepares for its next ‘Quinquennial’ I am reminded that during the big clear-out that preceded the last major building work a cache of old papers was discovered in one of the basements. This was an assortment of notebooks, ledgers, paying-in books and minutes belonging to the now defunct London Adult School Union (LASU). The LASU governed the work of the various adult school federations across the capital from the mid-nineteenth century right up until the early 1980s.