My Teenage Recollections: Roger Hutchinson, Author 'Lsd Was Taken Sparingly; Hash Was No Trouble at All'

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I BECAME a student in 1967 at Bretton Hall, an arts drama college in the West Riding of Yorkshire, right after the Summer of Love. Within a year, we had the great student uprisings, anti-Vietnam marches, riots in Grosvenor Square, and the mini-revolution in Paris.

While these events rather passed us by in the provinces, this sense of something in the air, of something changing, did creep in by osmosis. We became more bolshy, dressed according to the manner, played the same music, devoured what we could get of the new underground press.

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My Teenage Recollections: Roger Hutchinson, Author 'Lsd Was Taken Sparingly; Hash Was No Trouble at All'

I was on the Students' Union while Jack Straw was the leader of the National Union of Students in Leeds. We had a very active, very militant local student body. We'd be having strikes abou...

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