The University Experience 1945-1975 : An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde

This is the first book devoted to an oral history of a British university during the ‘swinging sixties’. Students, lecturers and support staff are interviewed about teaching and working on campus in the mid-twentieth century.

This is the first book devoted to an oral history of a British university during the ''swinging sixties''. Students, lecturers and support staff are interviewed about teaching and working on campus in the mid-twentieth century. Told in their own words, it is a story of struggle and sacrifice, pride and commitment. It reveals how the modern university transformed lives, how new technologies propelled path-breaking research, and how with new skills its graduates could remodel society.The University of Strathclyde was created in central Glasgow in 1964 from the merger of two higher-education colleges. The Andersonian started in 1796 as Britain''s first college to offer technical-based higher education to both women and artisans, whilst the Commercial College''s opening literary night in 1847 was chaired by Charles Dickens. By the 1950s, both colleges still offered students ''useful knowledge'' in engineering and commercial subjects, and launched them into local employment according to family traditions. But