Generation UCL: Exploring 200 years of student life in London
28 September 2022, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Dr Sam Blaxland and Professor Georgina Brewis
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As UCL starts the countdown to its bicentenary in 2026, a new research and engagement project puts students and alumni at the heart of the history of UCL. ‘Generation UCL’ explores 200 years of student life in London, turning institutional history upside down to suggest that the first students of 1828 should be seen as the real ‘founders’ of UCL. Generation UCL will establish the first major collection of oral history interviews with UCL alumni and staff. It also seeks to track down little-known student-produced materials spanning the period – from letters, autobiographies and memoirs, and the student press, to media and film sources, handbooks and material culture. This talk will introduce the research and present initial reflections from the first few months of the project.
Sam Blaxland is the Generation UCL Research Fellow based in Students’ Union UCL and Georgina Brewis is Professor of Social History at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.