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# Student Protests, 1989 Style
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/11/student_protests_1989_style/
- Published: 2010-11-15T13:13:41.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-22T13:11:43.000Z
- Description: Images from the 1989 Student Loans protests, which I covered as a student journalist.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: felix, Imperial College, journalist, photos, protests, student rags, students

November 1989\. I was not long turned 18, in my first year at [Imperial College](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%5FCollege%5FLondon?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), and working on [Felix](http://www.felixonline.co.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), the student newspaper. Oh, and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was proposing to replace student grants with student loans. Cue a wave of protests and demos…

The first of those was on November 22nd, meeting at 1pm on Malet Street, London. I was there – but not as a protestor. I had my notebook, I had my camera. I was *reporting*.

Over two decades later, I was watching this year’s demos begin, and discussing it with others on Twitter. I couldn’t resist digging out my old negatives, scanning them and sharing them, as a point of comparison with last week:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176067101_83cdf625a9_o.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176080637_5ba59d2719_o.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176680936_18853598cb_o.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176685428_34399b34f8_o.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176690622_09989a2f64_o.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/5176700868_c126ceef92_o.jpg)

Things have, I think, changed…

[![Anti-Student Loans Demo, November 1989](https://live.staticflickr.com/4113/5176057173_f10e58b5cd_b.jpg)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/albums/72157625266551293?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Anti-Student Loans Demo, November 1989")