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article • Thanks for Coming: Four Archival Collections and the Counterculture • Alison Scott (et al.)

Edinburgh Napier cataloguing archivist Alison Scott contributes to the Counterculture Studies journal https://ro.uow.edu.au/ccs/vol3/iss1/1/ Abstract The early to mid-1960s bore witness to the birth of the Underground, a loose collection of writers, artists and activists who were united in their opposition to mainstream culture, and in particular to consumerism and war. Beginning in the United States, …

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article: Could a 1960s counterculture hotbed be a blueprint for post-lockdown theatre? by Martin Belk • The Stage

by Martin Belk The Stage, 15 June 2020 text: As British theatre looks for a blueprint to emerge from the pandemic, it could do worse than take notes from a notorious experimental theatre on Londons’ Drury Lane, which burned brightly – and briefly – in the late 1960s. In 1966, minister of the arts Jennie …

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