Overview
First book to explore the actions, activities and experiences of students across Britain and Ireland throughout the twentieth century
Unique in its focus on students themselves, rather than the educational institutions they inhabit
Brings together scholars and activists from a range of disciplines
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Student Experiences and Day-to-Day Life
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Student Organisations and Unions
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Student Networks and the Wider Community
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Student Activism: Practice and Theory
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About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jodi Burkett is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and founder of the Students in Twentieth-Century Europe research network. She is the author of Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, ‘Race’ and the Radical Left in the 1960s (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland
Editors: Jodi Burkett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58241-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58240-5Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86357-3Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58241-2Published: 22 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 328
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Education