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

Contact email: Joseph.Price@warwick.ac.uk

The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

Oral History Participants

A key part of this project is the collection of oral histories from previous students of higher education institutions in England.

At the end of the project, with the consent of the participant, it is hoped that the collection will be deposited with the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The Modern Records Centre holds the archives from the National Union of Students in addition to other materials related to students and higher education in the twentieth century. They will preserve the project’s recorded oral histories as a permanent, publicly accessible resource.

If you attended the University of Warwick at any time before 1995 and would like to contribute your stories to the project, please get in touch with Joseph Price (Joseph.Price@arwick.ac.uk).