History
It was founded in 1848 by F. D. Maurice, assisted by some colleagues of his at King’s College London, and some university graduates, to provide classes in literary and other subjects to working men (Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800–1900, 1957)
It was a predecessor of his Working Men’s College, founded nearby in 1854
It no longer exists, although the Working Men’s College itself continues to provide similar educational opportunities across a much wider area
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What was reforming about it?
It took a non-utilitarian approach to educating working men (Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800–1900, 1957)
Where in Bloomsbury
This was a very disreputable part of Bloomsbury; Maurice had been been told by the rector of St George’s Bloomsbury that the area was so disorderly that the police did not venture there at night (Frederick Maurice (jr) ed, The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice, 1884)
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
None found
Archives
None found, although material relating to it may be contained within the extensive archive of the Working Men’s College, held in in London Metropolitan Archives, ref. LMA/4535 (still being catalogued in 2011)
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