A social history of student volunteering : Britain and beyond, 1880-1980 / by Georgina Brewis.

Georgina Brewis takes a long view of the experience of going to university in Britain over a hundred year period. She explores students' extra-curricular volunteering, fundraising, campaigning and protest activities in Britain and beyond to show that voluntary action was central to the emergence of a distinct student movement. Brewis also considers the evolution of volunteering since the late nineteenth century through study of students' activities and argues that the universities made significant contributions to causes and campaigns ranging from educational reconstruction in 1920s Europe, relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s, and international development in the 1960s. The book draws on rich historical sources and a wider range of student testimony than any earlier study to tell the fascinating story of how ordinary women and men students engaged with the pressing social and international problems of the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- A new era in social service? : student associational culture and the settlement movement -- Christian internationalism, social study and the universities before 1914 -- The student chapter in post-war reconstruction, 1920-1926 -- No longer the privilege of the well-to-do? : student culture, strikes and self-help, 1926-1932 -- Digging with the unemployed : the rise of a student social consciousness, 1932-1939 -- Students in action : students and anti-fascist relief efforts, 1933-1939 -- The students' contribution to victory : voluntary work in the second world war and after -- Experiments in living : student social service and social action, 1950-1965 -- From service to action -- rethinking student voluntarism, 1965-1980 -- Conclusions : students and social change, 1880-1980.

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