On 17 November 1922 a meeting was held at the University of Queensland for the purpose of forming an English and Modern Languages Association. The first general meeting was held on 1 March 1923 and at a meeting in November 1923 it was decided to change the name to the English Association of Queensland. The English Association was founded in 1906 in England by a small group of English teachers and scholars. The English Association today is an international organisation with branches and members in Britain and throughout the world and since December 1993 has been based at the University of Leicester. At its Annual General Meeting in 1990, English Association of Queensland made the decision to go into recess.