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Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex-Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England

Brewis, Georgina, Hellawell, Sarah and Laqua, Daniel (2020) Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex-Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England. History, 105 (364). pp. 82-106. ISSN 1468-229X

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Abstract

This article examines a transformative moment in the history of British higher education. After the First World War, student numbers were boosted by the arrival of large numbers of ex-servicemen. Their access to university was facilitated by the government-funded Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex-Service Students, which provided grants to nearly 27,000 students between 1918 and 1923. The article offers the first sustained historical analysis of the workings and impact of this programme, which constituted a major development in state support for individual students. Our study contextualizes these measures by showing how the war was memorialized at universities and by tracing the changing nature of student life – covering themes such as gender relations and the activities of student societies. Material from case-study institutions in London and the North East of England is used to add specific depth to discussions of the national picture. As a whole, the article makes an original contribution to the wider literature on the First World War’s impact on British society.

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Depositing User: Sarah Hellawell

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Item ID: 10992
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12926
ISSN: 1468-229X
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/10992
Official URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1...

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ORCID for Sarah Hellawell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1730-4812

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Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2019 11:12
Last Modified: 05 Jul 2021 02:38

Contributors

Author: Sarah Hellawell ORCID iD
Author: Georgina Brewis
Author: Daniel Laqua

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries
Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Media and Communications

Subjects

Education > Higher Education
Culture > History and Politics

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