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In and Around Cambridge in the 1960s (Paperback)
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In and Around Cambridge in the 1960s (Paperback)
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List price R578
Loot Price R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
You Save R92 (16%)
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A unique book showing Cambridge in the late 1960s from different
angles. Striking, previously unpublished photographs show famous
buildings as well as the river and backstreets and some of the
small towns, villages and countryside nearby. Students and
distinguished members of staff are here, with builders, shoppers in
the market, and men from the gasworks. This was a time of 'demos',
protests and disruption to established, maybe complacent, academic
traditions. The author draws on archive sources to illustrate
'official' concerns at that time with, for example, major worries
about overreactions triggering widespread unrest. However, he also
draws on personal recollections as a Cambridge student, together
with anecdotes from others and further archive material to suggest
that most students were far more interested in the quality of meals
they were served, and the state of the showers. Cambridge students
from any generation, and anyone else who knows the city, will find
themselves entertained and challenged. But the book's appeal goes
further: there are amusing reflections on moving from the north of
England to Cambridge almost half a half century ago, and on student
life in post-war Britain; the eye-catching photographs will have
widespread appeal.
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