This collection of scholarly essays marks the centenary of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), the largest voluntary provider of adult education in the United Kingdom. The chapters are as follows: "Introduction" (Roberts); "The WEA The Foundation and the Founder" (Jennings); "Battersea and the Formation of the Workers' Educational Association" (Creighton); "The First Students in the Workers' Educational Association: Individual Enlightenment and Collective Advance" (Goldman); "R. H. Tawney and the WEA" (Rusoff); "The Evolution of the WEA in the West Midlands, 1905-26" (Roberts); "The Friends and Enemies of the WEA" (Jennings); "'A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall': The National Association and Internationalism 1918-39" (Atkins); "Survival, Growth and Retreat: The WEA in Wartime, 1939-45" (Field); "Unions, Adult Education and Post-war Citizenship: The WEA and the Construction of Trade Union Education" (Holford); "Ideology and Provision: The WEA and the Politics of Workers' Education in Early Twentieth-century Scotland" (Duncan); "The WEA and Workers' Education in Early Twentieth-century Wales" (Lewis); "Women's Involvement in the WEA and Women's Education" (Munby); "Literature, Cultural Studies and the WEA" (Tatton); "From Day Release to Lifelong Learning: Workplace Education and the WEA after 1964" (Caldwell, Roberts); "WEA Values in the Twenty-first Century" (Jones). Contains a chronology of the WEA and a section entitled "WEA Voices." All articles include substantial references. (MO)