Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland [Hardcover]

This book explores the experiences and activities of students across the twentieth century and throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The daily experiences of students, their involvement in local communities, national political organisations and widespread cultural changes, are the main focus of this ground-breaking book. It takes students themselves as the subject of inquiry, exploring the fundamental importance of student activities within wider social and political changes and also how some of the key changes across the twentieth century have shaped and changed the make-up, experiences, and lives of students. This book charts the experiences of students throughout a period of unprecedented change as being a student in Britain and Ireland has gone from the endeavour of a small number of elite, mainly wealthy white men, to an important phase of life undertaken by the majority of young people.

Table of contents.-  Chapter 1: Introduction Universities and Students in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland; Jodi Burkett.- Part I  Student experiences and day-to-day life.-  Chapter 2: On going out and the experience of students; Matthew Cheeseman.- Chapter 3: Prisoner students: building bridges, breaching walls; Daniel Weinbren.-  Chapter 4: Education not fornication? Sexual morality among students in Scotland, 1955-75; Jane ONeill.- Part II  Student organisations and unions.- Chapter 5: Forgotten Voices: The debating societies of Durham and Liverpool, 1900-1939; Bertie Dockerill.- Chapter 6: The National Union of Students and Devolution; Mike Day.- Chapter 7: Investigating the relationship between students and NUS Wales; Jeremy Harvey.- Part III  Student networks and the wider community.- Chapter 8: Sound, Gown and Town: Students in the Economy and CultulÓ[