Alice Cameron

Alice Mackenzie Cameron (1891 – 1964) was a British educator who campaigned against unemployment.

Cameron studied at Somerville College, Oxford in 1910, and received her BA and MA in 1920.[1][2] She became a tutor for the Oxford University Extension Delegacy when one of her professors, Sandie Lindsay, gave her some of his philosophy classes to teach.[3] Her career lay in adult education, including giving women-only classes.[4][5]

In 1927, she founded the Lincoln People's Service Club to support men unemployed during the Great Depression.[6][7][8] Her other activities with the Workers' Educational Association involved leading a protest against the withholding of coal from unemployed families in 1934 alongside Mary Toomer.[9]

She was the author of Civilisation and the Unemployed and In pursuit of justice: the story of Hugh Lister and his friends in Hackney Wick.[10]

References

  1. ^ Mann, Julia de Lacy (1969). "Social Pioneers: number 51 Alice Cameron". Social Service Quarterly. National Council of Social Service. pp. 16–18.
  2. ^ University, Oxford (1921). Oxford University Gazette Vol. 51 1920–1921. pp. 264–5. doi:10.25446/oxford.21905568.v1.
  3. ^ Goldman, Lawrence (1995). Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850. Clarendon Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-19-820575-3.
  4. ^ Smith, Henry Percival (1963). "In Memoriam Alice Mackenzie Cameron 1891-1964". Rewley House Papers. Vol. 4. pp. 79–83.
  5. ^ Roberts, Stephen (2003). A Ministry of Enthusiasm: Centenary Essays on the Workers' Educational Assoc. Pluto Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-7453-1907-0.
  6. ^ Olechnowicz, Andrzej (2005). "Unemployed Workers, 'Enforced Leisure' and Education for 'The Right Use of Leisure' in Britain in the 1930s". Labour History Review. 70 (1). Society for the Study of Labour History: 38.
  7. ^ Emmet, Dorothy (2016-07-27). Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of Seventy Years in Philosophy. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-14215-6.
  8. ^ Smith, Justin Davis (2019-05-14). 100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action: Idealists and Realists. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-02774-2.
  9. ^ Knox, Ewan (1987). "Fancy a Man from Pond Street Knowing His ABC. 75 Years of the Lincoln WEA [Book review]". Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. 22. Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology: 29–30.
  10. ^ Cameron, Alice Mackenzie (1934). Civilisation and the Unemployed. Student Christian Movement Press.
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