Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland

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).

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 O'Neill.- 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 Culture of UK Popular Music; Paul Long and Lauren Thompson.- Chapter 9: The National Union of Students and the Policy of "No Platform" in the 1970s and 1980s; Evan Smith.- Chapter 10: 'Don't Bank On Apartheid': The National Union of Students and the Boycott Barclays campaign; Jodi Burkett.- Part IV - Student activism: Practice and Theory.- Chapter 11: Rebels and Rustici: Students and the formation of the Irish State; Steven Conlon.- Chapter 12: 'Women are far too sweet for this kind of game': Women, feminism and student politics in Scotland c. 1968-c. 1979'; Sarah Browne.- Chapter 13: Altbach's theory of student activism in the 20th century: Ten propositions that matter; Thierry M Luescher.