A major international exhibition of work from two of the UK’s most important 20th Century painters, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, starts on Saturday 15 February
Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive sociologist assigned his students the storming of a public office as field-work; avant-garde writers, street theatre and poets moulded a bohemian sub-culture was dramatically reshaping university life.