Workers' Educational Association

She had been working at several jobs already: magazine editing, giving tutorials (at Cambridge called supervisions) to undergraduates, and teaching for the WEA . She earned money the family sorely needed (in part for school...

DW found the war years tedious. There was a constant turnover of evacuees at her home: she considered sending her own children to Scotland for safety, but did not do so. She became a lecturer...

Her father, Cyril John Adcock, brought from England at the age of ten, grew up on a New Zealand bush farm where as a teenager he constructed cat's whisker radio equipment. In England...

Rupert John Cornford was named after Rupert Brooke , who had died eight months earlier, and John Swan , a miner who met the Cornfords through the Workers' Educational Association .

Henry Whipple, who worked as a civil servant in education, was Dorothy's boss at the time. His work took them to conferences here and there, and meetings of the W. E .A.Nicola Beauman