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1968

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Student activism: What's our problem? »

For many of today’s young people, the student activism of the 1960s is a nebulous concept. Knowledge of that era has dwindled to a collection of disconnected images and soundbytes, mostly relating to popular culture and drug-taking; our understan...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 | Read more »

The spirit of '68 »

Even London was considered a sideshow to Paris’ cobblestone throwing conduct of 1968. Mick Jagger summed it up lyrically in a song the same year, “In sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street fighting man.” Edinburg...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Excerpts from Student 1968 »

Sponsio Academica I, student of the University of Edinburgh, do give my sincere and sacred promise and wish this my signature to testify thereto forever, that I will be dutiful and industrious in my studies: and by this promise I acknowledge that in a...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 | Read more »

The catacombs of Paris »

Parisian Catacombs

This May marks the 40th anniversary of the radical student riots of 1968, when thousands of students backed by ethnic minorities rebelled in a series of anti-government protests worldwide. Whilst student movements led to varying degrees of politic...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

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