My friend David Browning, who has died aged 83, was a dockworker for 15 years before becoming an academic and passionate advocate of informal adult education, working with local communities.
In the late 1970s and early 80s, as the outreach tutor at Northern College Barnsley, David worked with its founder, Michael Barratt Brown, to set up creative short residential courses that empowered local communities and changed people’s lives, particularly women’s.
