Bill Jones reports on a series of papers intended to be accessible to adult learners and society at large.

The article deals with the Vaughan Papers, a collection of research-based monographs published by Leicester University Institute of Lifelong Learning. The title reveals the series to be rooted in Vaughan College, the Working Men's College in Leicester and forerunner of the university itself. The first Vaughan Paper, a survey of the state of adult learning at a time when funding problems threatened serious cuts, was published in 1951. Its author was John Allaway, Director of the adult education department.