From Winstanley to Washington D.C. and New York – by Samantha Jones, a student of Winstanley College, Wigan The politics and law students at Winstanley College, Wigan made a visit to Washington D.C. and New York in February 2005. Student Samantha Jones has written a lively account
Cultural Transformations: Urban Place, Architecture and Rock and Roll Music – by Dr Rob MacDonald. This paper is about the cultural flux between America and Liverpool,as represented in urban place, architecture and early rock music. The idea came from ‘’John Lennon’s Juke Box’’ a collection of 40 (45rpm) featured on Chris Walker and Melvin Bragg’s South Bank Show 2003, based on an idea by John Winter.
New Wine in New Skins — Surviving the 1960s – By Ed Weeden. For many people, the 1960’s were a golden age of student activism, flower power and rock and roll. What was it really like to grow up in those heady days, and how different is it from the life of today’s students? In this evocative article, Ed Weeden looks back at his own student days in America.
Obituary Pam Wonsek 1950-2005 – Ian Ralston has written this tribute to a great librarian, educator and friend of the Centre, who died in 2005.
Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1964-68 by Jonathan Coleman, Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth Britain has long claimed a special relationship with the United States in terms of foreign policy, but this has not always meant giving unquestioning support to American military involvement overseas. Jonathan Coleman explores the strained relationship between Harold Wilson and Lyndon Johnson which resulted from the Labour Government’s refusal to send troops to support the Americans in Vietnam.
Dennis Lee Rogers returns with his Spirit Dancer Tour – a report by David and Valerie Forster. The celebrated Navajo artist and educator Dennis Lee Rogers paid a welcome return visit to Merseyside last year, and this is an account of a memorable performance he gave at the Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl.
Simon goes to Washington – Over the February 2004 half-term break a group of fourteen A Level Politics students and two staff from Cheadle Hulme School in Manchester spent five days visiting Washington DC. The following personal account was written by Upper 6th former Simon Holt.
Women and War 1941-1975 – Women have often throughout history played a subordinate role in society, but war has been instrumental in giving them a far more prominent status, both as substitute for men’s labour, and, more recently, in combatant roles. However, this change has rarely survives the end of conflict. Talya Schneider considers the effect of wars from the Second World War to the Vietnam War on the status of women. She concludes that their emancipation has been far more permanent in Vietnam than it has been in the United States.
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