Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national
archives across the country and interviews with participants,
British Student Activism in the Long Sixties reconstructs the world
of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are
placed within the context of a wide variety of primary and
secondary sources from across Britain and the world, making this
project the first book-length history of the British student
movement to employ literary and theoretical frameworks which
differentiate it from most other histories of student activism to
date.
Globalization, especially of mass communications, made British
students aware of global problems such as the threat of nuclear
weapons, the Vietnam War, racism, sexism and injustice. British
students applied these global ideas to their own unique
circumstances, using their intellectual traditions and political
theories which resulted in unique outcomes. British student
activists effectively gained support from students, staff, and
workers for their struggle for student s rights to unionize, freely
assemble and speak, and participate in university decision-making.
Their campaigns effectively raised public awareness of these issues
and contributed to significant national decisions in many
considerable areas.
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