tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post4454262625672698957..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: 1968, looking back, by Leslie WilsonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-37992389124315934122018-05-27T08:13:25.717+01:002018-05-27T08:13:25.717+01:00Very chauvinist, too! The anti-nuclear movement of...Very chauvinist, too! The anti-nuclear movement of the 80s was quite different. The Bob Dylan I really liked was ‘the universal soldier.’Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-26280272666279211982018-05-26T08:16:24.977+01:002018-05-26T08:16:24.977+01:00I remember 1968 too, as being a time of great exci...I remember 1968 too, as being a time of great excitement, when times were very clearly 'a-changing'. I remember hearing the news that the tanks had rolled into Prague when I was youth-hostelling with some friends in Buxton in Derbyshire; we sat in a park and read the newspapers, stunned and very sad. And I remember going to a lecture given in French at Nottingham University about 'les evenements', but that must have been the year after, when I was doing French A-Level. But I also remember listening to 'If you go to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair...' and seeing pictures of people handing out flowers at American airports in the name of peace. And I was aware of Germaine Greer, who taught English at Warwick University, where my sister was. She was beautiful, revolutionary, and sounded distinctly scary. It really was quite a long time ago, wasn't it?<br />Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.com