Sex, Health, and the Student Body in Post-War England

Project Overview

The aim of this project is to explore how institutions of higher education and their student community understood, internalised, navigated and engaged with matters of sex and health in late-twentieth-century England. The project aims to be a unique contribution to the histories of youth culture, history of sexuality, history of medicine and histories of higher education. The project will explore themes around what we today would call reproductive and sexual health which includes matters of reproduction, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and sexual misconduct.

The project is run by Joseph Price

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

Oral History Participants

A key part of this project is the collection of oral histories