Secondary Literature


General reading on student experiences and NUS 
  • R. D. Anderson, Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800 (Cambridge: CUP, 1995) 
  • Carol Dyhouse, Students: A Gendered History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006) 
  • Ivison S. Macadam, Youth in the Universities: A Paper on National and International Students’ Organisations (London: NUS, 1922) 
  • Reba N. Soffer, Discipline and Power: The University, History and the Making of an English Elite 1870–1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994) 
  • National Union of Students, The First Forty Years 1922-1962 (London: NUS, 1962)
  • National Union of Students, The National Union of Students: A Survey of Seven Years Development (London: NUS, 1930)
  • National Union of Students,The Future of University and Higher Education: A Report Prepared by the National Union of Students, 1944 (London: NUS, 1944)   
On the Student Christian Movement 
  • Social Study and Service in the Christian Unions (London: SCM, 1917) 
  • Tissington Tatlow, The Story of the Student Christian Movement (London: SCM Press, 1933) 
  • Ruth Rouse, The World’s Student Christian Federation: A History of the First Thirty Years (London: SCM Press, 1948) 
  • J. A. Pollock, A Cambridge Movement (London: John Murray, 1953)   
On rags 
  • Carol Dyhouse, Students: A Gendered History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006)   
On overseas volunteering and workcamps 
  • Ethelwyn Best and Bernard Pike, International Voluntary Service for Peace 1920-1946 (London: IVSP, 1948) 
  • Arthur Gillette, One Million Volunteers: The Story of Volunteer Youth Service (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968) 
  • Sir John Lockwood, ‘The Call for Volunteer Service Overseas’, Social Service Quarterly, 37:2 (Autumn 1963) 
  • David Wainwright, The Volunteers: The Story of Overseas Voluntary Service (London: Macdonald, 1965) 
  • Philip Zealey, ‘Need and Response in Overseas Service’, Social Service Quarterly, 36:3 (Winter 1963): 109-111 
  • Georgina Brewis, ‘Youth in action? British young people and voluntary service 1958 – 1970’ in Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the wider British World, ed. Melanie Oppenheimer and Nicholas Deakin (Manchester: Manchester University Press, Forthcoming 2010).

          
On the settlement and missions 
  • The History and Function of Cambridge House (Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1934) 
  • Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends (London: John Murray, 1918) 
  • Katharine Bentley Beauman, Women and the Settlement Movement (London: Radcliffe Press, 1996)
  • N. B. Kent ed., Cambridge in South London: The Work of the College Missions 1883-1914 (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1914) 
  • Constance M. and Harold King, The Two Nations: The Life and Work of Liverpool University Settlement and its Associated Institutions 1906-1937 (London: University Press of Liverpool, 1938) 
  • Seth Kovan, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) 
  • Standish Meacham, Toynbee Hall and Social Reform 1880-1914 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987)
  • Melvin Richter, The Politics of Conscience: T. H. Green and His Age (London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1964) 
  • Nigel Scotland, Squires in the Slums: Settlements and Missions in Late-Victorian London (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007)
  • Martha Vicinus, Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 (London: Virago, 1980)
  • Georgina Brewis, ‘From working parties to social work: Middle-class girls’ education and social service 1890-1914’, History of Education 38, no. 6 (November 2009): 799-789.
On student community action 
  • Current Issues in Community Work: A Study by the Community Work Group (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973) 
  • Alan Barr, Student Community Action (London: Bedford Square Press, 1972) 
  • Alec Dickson, ‘Student Community Action’, Community Development Journal, 5:4 (October 1970): 183-9
  • Robert Holman, ‘Students and Community Action’, Universities Quarterly: Higher Education and Society, 26, no. 2 (Spring 1973): 187-194
  • Jill Manthorpe, ‘It was the best of times and the worst of times”: On being the organiser of student volunteers’, Voluntary Action 4:1 (Winter 2001): 83-96
  • National Union of Students, Student Community Action: Report of the Pilot Programme of the NUS Student Community Action Project 1971-1974 (London: NUS, 1974)
  • SCARP, Taking Action in the Community (London: SCARP, 1980)

Primary Resources

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