THE GUILD DINNER AND SALISBURY – a correction by Pete Cresswell Added 8 April 2023 In his latest book, The State of Us, Jon Snow returns briefly to the occupation. Referring to the ...
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Today’s Guild Gazette leads with the story, Thomas ‘Attacks Militant Group‘. Alongside is this response from editor Ian Rathbone: So, you have told it how it is. No wonder you at first re...
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This week, Guild Gazette leads its front page with a report on the Vice-Chancellor’s uncompromising response to the events surrounding the occupation in his annual report. The article also se...
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The Times carries a report on the severe sentences handed out to the students arrested in the Garden House hotel ‘riot’ in Cambridge in May this year: Six Cambridge students were sentenced to...
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Ian Rathbone’s valedictory editorial for Guild Gazette today, summing up and assessing the events of the past year: After one of the most troubled years in the University’s history, the summe...
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News in this week’s issue of Guild Gazette of the slow progress being made in negotiations on the Five Demands of the March occupation: Following the recent re-occupation of Senate House and mo...
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The second lead in this week’s Guild Gazette concerns the recent brief re-occupation of Senate House in protest over the disciplining of the ten, and the University’s refusal to respond to re...
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There’s a letter in this week’s Guild Gazette that highlights the issue of the University’s victimisation of the ten disciplined students: Sir, No victimisation? What crap! Not only was...
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The Times has this report today on the second of Lord Radcliffe’s inquiries into the situation at Warwick University; plus a round-up of other student actions across the country: A royal commis...
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A letter in today’s Leicester Mercury reads: Three cheers for the Liverpool University Disciplinary Board! More power to their elbow. By rejecting the appeal of a Leicester student against ...
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Another indication of the mood among some politicians and academics in this report from today’s Times: Students and other demonstrators who occupied buildings and put them out of normal use sho...
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This letter by June Walker appears in today’s Daily Post. In it she refers to having organised a petition objecting to the severity of the sentences imposed by the Board of Discipline which w...
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Before the appeals hearing, a number of those who participated in the occupation signed a statement that they were equally responsible for actions taken during the sit-in, and that the ten who ha...
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Today The Times reports the announcement that the South African cricket tour has been called off – a triumph for the Stop The Seventy Tour movement: The Cricket Council yesterday cancelled at t...
In the current issue of Kemsoc Newsletter (Vol 3, No 2, May 1970) there is this letter on the CBW research issue from HW Douglas: Dear Editor, One of the recent demands made in connection with th...
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