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Bruno Barbey's best photograph: the Paris protests of 1968Bruno Barbey: 'I went with Cartier-Bresson to buy helmets to protect our heads from stones. But they made it impossible to use our Leicas'
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May Day march, Paris, 1968 - a picture from the pastGérard Aimé, a student activist at the University of Nanterre, was well-placed to document the turbulent events that unfolded in Paris in May 1968
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From the archive, 15 June 1968: British students talk about a revolutionOriginally published in the Guardian on 15 June 1968: Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation is launched at conference held at the London School of Economics
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Something in the Air (Après Mai) – reviewOlivier Assayas seems to be dramatising his own youth with this beautiful-looking account of the soixante-huitard aftermath – but politics give way too easily to nostalgia, writes Peter Bradshaw
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French 'boat schools' rape trial opensLeonid Kameneff's L'Ecole en Bateau alternative education project arrives in Paris court decades after alleged sex abuse
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Mad Men is fun TV, but I'm glad I don't live in the 1960s
Sarah-Jane Stratford: The sixth season reminds us that while we have nostalgia for 60s fashions, we wouldn't want the era's political and social norms