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Centers student experiences in London's history to tell the two-hundred-year story of student life in the capital. Offering a detailed examination of life at the original London University (known as University College London since 1836) and many other institutions, this book captures a range of higher education experiences and perspectives in London. With insights into histories of education, class, gender, race, LGBTQ+ culture, leisure, politics, protest, housing, and charity in the capital, Student London draws on a rich and wide-ranging source base that includes several hundred student memoirs and oral history interviews; student newspapers, magazines, and film; visual and material culture; and Mass Observation data, court reports, and secret service files.

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Georgina Brewis is Professor of Social History at UCL, where she specialises in the nineteenth and twentieth century histories of education, charity and humanitarianism. Sam Blaxland is Lecturer in Education at UCL, specialising in the history of British society, politics, protest and education since 1945.

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