In the early 1980s, Glasgow University’s student union closed down its Gay Society. The explanation was that as the legal age of consent for same sex relations at that time was 21 – they couldn’t have a society encouraging men or women under 21 to have relationships with their own sex. They would be breaking…
Local youth and university students often connected badly in the 1980s with acts of violence not being uncommon as students were viewed as privileged
In the aftermath of the Toxteth riots there was an increase in attacks on Liverpool University students and even some attacks on members of staff
In 1982, I ran to be welfare officer of Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates – needless to say, I didn’t win!
Unemployment in the eighties was endemic in the United Kingdom with millions out of work and an underground dole culture emerged
