STUDENT PROTEST IN LEEDS, MAY-JUNE 1968

A 30th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

The following links lead to the full text of exhibits featured in the exhibition.

(1) Jack Straw. In the year of student rebellion: How I see the Future... Union News, 2 1 June 1968.

(2) [leaflet] Against Racism! Published by The Editor, "Left Wing", Leeds University Union, n.d.[May 1968].

(3) Philip Whitfield. University mob kick and trample MP's wife. Daily Mail 4 May 1968

(4) [cartoon] Sunday Spotlight.. by Cummings. Sunday Express ?date.

(5) University of Leeds Senate Minutes 5 June 1968.

(6) The Investigation of the Wall Affair. [Memorandum signed by members of staff and sent to Deans of Faculties, 3 June 1968].

(7) Leeds University Union Executive Committee. Memorandum on the University Security Service. 6 June 1968.

(8) Vice-Chancellor's comments on Leeds University Union Executive Committee Memorandum onthe University Security Service, n.d. [18 June 1968].

(9) University of Leeds Press Release. Meeting of the Council: University security and discipline.19 June 1968.

(10) [leaflet] May 3rd Committee. The Security Men: The Students Demands. n.d. [20 June 1968].

(11) Comment. Union News, 21 June 1968.

(12) Leeds University Union. Minutes of the Ordinary General Meeting 25 June 1968 and of the Reconvened 0GM 26 June 1968.

(13) Front page. Union News, 28 June 1968.

(14) University of Leeds. The Senate. Committee on Concern with the Activities of the Security Force. Report. 18 July 1968
(14b) Appendices to Senate Report (no. 14)

(15) Andy Chapman. The 1968 Sit-In Over Security Failed - Why? Union News, 23 January 1970.

(16) May 3rd Committee. The June Sit-In. Part I of a Series. n.d [1968] Note: Images only, not text.

(17) [Memorandum] R. B. Stevens. Leeds Sit-In - June 25th-28th, 1968. 1 July 1968.

(18) [Photograph] Sir Roger Stevens, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, 1963-70.


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