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Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British sociologist, founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964. He was also Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (1971-1975) and Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London (1976-1984).
He was born in Leeds and educated at Cockburn High School and the University of Leeds. He served with the Royal Artillery during World War II, and was demobilised as a Staff Captain. He was then appointed Staff Tutor at the University of Hull, 1946-1959, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, 1959-1962, and Professor of English at Birmingham University, 1962-1973. During his Professorship, he was also Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1964-1973. Hoggart was a member of numerous organisations, including the Albermarle Committee on Youth Services, 1958-1960; the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, 1960-1962; the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976-1981; and the Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd, 1977-1981. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education, 1977-1983, and the Broadcasting Research Unit, 1981-1991, as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1962-1988. He was an expert witness at the Lady Chatterley trial.
He has two sons, political journalist Simon Hoggart and television critic Paul Hoggart.
Bibliography
- Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2004) ISBN 0826472850
- Everyday Language and Everyday Life (Transaction Publishers, 2003) ISBN 0765801760
- Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical (Transaction Publishers, 2002) ISBN 0765800977
- Between Two Worlds: Essays, 1978-1999 (Aurum Press, 2001) ISBN 1854107828
- First and Last Things: The Uses of Old Age (Aurum Press, 1999) ISBN 1854106600
- The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009535
- The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Chatto and Windus, 1995) ISBN 0701165014
- A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Transaction Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1560001356
- Townscape with Figures: Farnham - Portrait of an English Town (Chatto and Windus, 1994) ISBN 0701161388
- An Imagined Life: Life and Times 1959-91 (Chatto and Windus, 1992) ISBN 0701140151)
- A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 (Chatto and Windus, 1990) ISBN 0701136073 first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds
- Liberty and Legislation (Frank Cass Publishers, 1989) ISBN 0714633089
- A Local Habitation, 1918-40 (Chatto and Windus, 1988) ISBN 0701133058
- An Idea of Europe (Chatto and Windus, 1987) ISBN 0701132442)
- The Worst of Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray, Richard Hoggart (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1986) ISBN 0389205745
- British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al (British Council, 1986) ISBN 0863550487
- The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart, Janet Morgan (Holmes & Meier, 1982) ISBN 0841950903
- An English Temper (Chatto and Windus, 1982) ISBN 0701125810
- An Idea and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (Chatto and Windus, 1978) ISBN 0701123710
- After Expansion, a Time for Diversity: The Universities Into the 1990's (ACACE, 1978) ISBN 0906436001
- Only Connect: On Culture and Communication (Reith Lectures) (Chatto and Windus, 1972) ISBN 0701118652
- Speaking to Each Other: About Society v. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701114630
- Speaking to Each Other: About Literature v. 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701115149
- Contemporary Cultural Studies: An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society (Univ. Birmingham, Centre for Contemp. Cult. Studies, 1969) ISBN 0901753033 paper is based on a lecture given to the annual conference of the American Association for Higher Education at Chicago on 20 March 1978
- Higher Education and Cultural Change: A Teacher's View (Earl Grey Memorial Lecture) (Univ.Newcastle, 1966) ISBN 0900565624
- Teaching Literature (Nat. Inst. of Adult Education, 1963) ISBN 0900559195
- The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Chatto and Windus, 1957) ISBN 0701107634
- Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0701107626 biography of W.H. Auden
External links
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