Dr James Riley

Did the Sixties dream die in 1969?

01 November 2019

探花直播year 1969 is held up as the end of an era, but fifty years on are we still buying into a dangerous myth?聽Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.

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Dr Fowler believes that contemporary student protests, such as the one in London last year, are a pale imitation of their 1960s counterparts

探花直播Creative Campus

13 October 2011

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive sociologist assigned his students the storming of a public office as field-work; avant-garde writers, street theatre and poets moulded a bohemian sub-culture was dramatically reshaping university life.

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