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Generation UCL is a research and engagement project that is collecting the stories of UCL alumni over 200 years. To give an insight into the breadth and diversity of the student experience, this series includes short extracts from these oral history interviews alongside excerpts from written memoirs that have been voiced by actors.
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Jim Onyemenam, Laws student, late 2010s, describes why he became a Students’ Union Sabbatical officer and what the role involved. Interviewed for the Generation UCL project by Sam Blaxland in 2022. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-student-life-london Date of episode recording…
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Lyn Stone, Linguistics student in the early 1990s, remembers the dance music scene in London. Interviewed for the Generation UCL project by Sam Blaxland in 2022. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-student-life-london Date of episode recording: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z Duration: 00:…
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Jamie Gardiner, PhD student in Applied Mathematics, discusses setting up GaySoc in the early 1970s. Excerpt from an interviewed for the Generation UCL project by Sam Blaxland in 2022. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-student-life-london Date of episode recording: 2023…
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Peter Mitchell, Chemistry student, mid-1960s to early 1970s, discusses his dual identity as both a UCL and University of London student. Excerpt from an interview for the Generation UCL project conducted by Sam Blaxland in 2022. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-studen…
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Toni Griffiths, UCL English student from the mid-1960s, describes her duties as Woman Vice President of the Students’ Union in that period. Excerpt taken from an oral history interview for the Generation UCL project, conducted by Sam Blaxland in 2023. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generati…
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Alwyn Davies, Chemistry student from the 1940s, discusses the impact of the Second World War on students at UCL. Excerpt taken from an oral history interview for the Generation UCL project, conducted by Sam Blaxland in 2023. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-student-li…
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M. T. Z. Tyau (Diao Minqian 刁敏謙), Law student, describes arriving in London as an international student from China in 1909. This extract is from Tyau’s account of his London years. M. T. Z. Tyau, London through Chinese Eyes (London: Swarthmore Press, 1920). Voiced by Yitao Qian. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.…
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Mary A. Adamson describes the segregation of men and women on the UCL campus in the 1880s. This extract comes from a written testimony Adamson submitted in response to a request during UCL’s centenary commemorations. Mary A. Adamson, ‘University College and Women Science Students, 1884-1886’, 1926, College Archive, UCL Special Collections. Voiced b…
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Edward Fry talks about his chance at a university education in the 1840s. Fry was excluded from Oxford and Cambridge because of his Quaker religion but enrolled at UCL in 1848 at the age of 21. This extract is taken from a memoir compiled posthumously by Fry’s daughter. Agnes Fry, Memoir of Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, CBE 1827-1918 (Oxford: OU…
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