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Its wider horizons programme revolutionised adult education for retired people from the 1970s.

������The People’s University, widely published historian Ian Dougherty tells the fascinating and important story of this resilient association over its first 100 years and of the enthusiastic and committed involvement of students, tutors, volunteers and staff.

Ian Dougherty is a journalist and historian. He has a Master of Arts Degree in History from the University of Otago, a Diploma in Journalism from the ���سԹ� and a Teachers’ College Diploma from the former Christchurch Teachers’ College. He has worked as a print and broadcasting journalist and professional historian for nearly four decades. The author of more than 20 books on New ���سԹ�history, biography and culture, he has a special interest in the history of education and has written several histories of New ���سԹ�polytechnics and institutes of technology.