The argument is that the teaching and experience of English in England over those two decades have to be understood not simply in terms of 'subject history' or the internal ebbs and flows of a professional community but, far more interestingly, as one domain in which the life of the time was being l[...]
Georgina Brewis takes a long view of the experience of going to university in Britain over a hundred year period. She explores students' extra-curricular volunteering, fundraising, campaigning and protest activities in Britain and beyond to show that voluntary action was central to the emergence of [...]