Swansea University

Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945–2020

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University of Wales Press
Sam Blaxland
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Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945–2020

marks Swansea University’s centenary. It is a study of post- Second World War academic and social change in Britain and its universities, as well as an exploration of shifts in youth culture and the way in which higher education institutions have interacted with people and organisations in their regions. It covers a range of important themes and topics, including architectural developments, international scholars, the changing behaviours of students, protest and politics, and the multi-layered relationships that are formed between academics, young people and the wider communities of which they are a part. Unlike most institutional histories, it takes a ‘bottom-up’ approach and focuses on the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of people like students and non-academic staff who are normally sidelined in such accounts. As it does so, it utilises a large collection of oral history testimonies collected specifically for this book; and, throughout, it explores how formative, paradoxical and unexpected university life can be.

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This is an academic work that will appeal to scholars and university students. It engages with big historical debates and draws from a wide range of scholarship on universities, post-war Britain, youth culture, and modern Wales. However, it has been deliberately written in an accessible style so as to appeal to a very wide audience, including the large Swansea University alumni body. It is therefore aimed at anyone interested in the history of the University as well as post-war Britain; not just experts in specific academic fields.

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