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Author Hughes, Celia, author.

Title Young lives on the left : sixties activism and the liberation of the self / Celia Hughes.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-306) and index.
Contents 1. Post-war childhood and adolescence -- 2. Youth subcultures -- 3. Student movement and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign -- 4. New Left politics and Women's Liberation -- 5. Adulthood and activism in the 1970s -- 6. Trotskyism and the revolutionary self.
Summary 'Young Lives on the Left' is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, it follows approximately 20 individuals, tracing the experience of activist self-making from child to adulthood in depth.
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Subject Nineteen sixties.
Nineteen sixties.
Social movements -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Social movements.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Radicalism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Radicalism.
Right and left (Political science)
Right and left (Political science)
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Social movements.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hughes, Celia. Young lives on the left. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9780719091940 (DLC) 2015413239 (OCoLC)899702658
ISBN 9781781708989 (electronic book)
1781708983 (electronic book)
9780719098314 (electronic book)
0719098319 (electronic book)
9780719091940
0719091942