Robert Gildea is a professor of modern history at the University of Oxford. He is co-editor with James Mark and Anette Warring of Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, recently published by Oxford University Press.
‘A lack of imagination is not having the imagination to see what’s missing’ - in this week's Friday Essay, Robert Gildea looks at 1968 and asks where the missing energy of 2013 is going to come from.