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Not so 'swinging sixties' revealed by study of UK's first sexual health clinics

20 Jan 2022

Young people behaving responsibly in the 1960s helped to defeat fierce opposition to the UK’s first sexual health clinics, the Brook Advisory Centres...

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Dr James Riley

Did the Sixties dream die in 1969?

01 Nov 2019

The year 1969 is held up as the end of an era, but fifty years on are we still buying into a dangerous myth? Counterculture expert James Riley delves...

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Liquid Crystal Environment, Gustav Metzger

Art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain

22 Jul 2014

The relationships between art, science and society in the 1960s will be examined by Kettle’s Yard this Saturday.

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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble deposits archive in University Library

11 Oct 2012

Leading author Dame Margaret Drabble has deposited her literary archive in Cambridge University Library.

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Dr Fowler believes that contemporary student protests, such as the one in London last year, are a pale imitation of their 1960s counterparts

The Creative Campus

13 Oct 2011

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive...

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