Book launch: "Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital" by Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland
Book launch with Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland
4pm, Wednesday 10 June
Authors Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland will be joining us on 10 June for the Oxford launch of their new book Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital, which marks UCL’s bicentenary and explores the history of university education in London from a student point of view. They will be showing the short film The Making of Student London and discussing their book in the context of the history of changes in the student experience of higher education.
Professor Georgina Brewis is Professor of Social History at UCL and an expert in university and student history. Her research also includes the history of charities and humanitarianism as well as education. Georgina has a long-standing interest in questions of archiving and record keeping by voluntary organisations and charities and since 2014 she has directed the British Academy Research Project (ARP) ‘Archiving the Mixed Economy of Welfare in Britain’.
Dr Sam Blaxland is Lecturer in Education at UCL. A historian of modern and contemporary Britain, this book is his third monograph. His first two were on the history of Swansea University, and the Conservative Party and over the course of his career, he has conducted over 250 oral history interviews with former politicians, and alumni of universities. Sam teaches on the BA Education, Culture and Society programme at UCL Institute of Education and frequently contributes to the national and local media as a pundit on current affairs.
