After his stint in the Merchant Marines, Suall studied at Ruskin College, Oxford on a Fulbright scholarship.
After demobilisation in 1946, Hughes became a Labour Party member and moved to Coventry where he worked as a manager for the Standard Motor Company, where he obtained a degree from Ruskin College, Oxford and became an administrator for Standard Motor from 1957 until 1966.
He was soon joined by Walter Vrooman who had just returned from Oxford, England where he established Ruskin Hall, a university called the "College for the People" based on the Utopian Socialist writings of John Ruskin.
In 1917, at Ruskin College in Florida, along with the husband and wife combination of Kate Richards O'Hare and Frank O’Hare, Zuech created the basis for a school that would focus on educating the future leaders of an emerging class of workers.
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The other long-term, mature students colleges in the UK are Ruskin College at Oxford; Northern College at Barnsley; Hillcroft College in Surbiton; Fircroft College at Birmingham; and Newbattle Abbey College in Midlothian, Scotland.
In 1899 he was chosen to be the first principal of Ruskin College, Oxford.
Central to the formation of the League was Noah Ablett, a miner from the Rhondda who was at the core of a group at Ruskin College, Oxford who opposed the lecturers' opposition to Marxism.
In the 1960s, Rowbotham was one of the founders and leaders of the History Workshop movement associated with Ruskin College.