Description

Admin History:

The National Council of Labour Colleges (NCLC) was established in 1921 with the aim of encouraging self-education amongst the working classes and acted as a co-ordinating body for the labour colleges movement. In 1926 it took over the Plebs League, a marxist educational and political organisation, and continued printing the organisations' Plebs' Magazine. The NCLC eventually merged with the Workers' Educational Trade Union Committee in 1964 to form the Trades Union Congress Education Department.

Description:

This small collection includes minutes, agenda, reports and memoranda relating to the activities of the National Council of Labour Colleges in the period 1951-1954. There is also a file of letters relating to the appointment of a new Principal at Ruskin College in the 1940s.