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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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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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