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Primary Sources

(1) Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian (7th February, 2004)

The publication of The Uses of Literacy in 1957 propelled Richard Hoggart, then an extramural lecturer at the University of Hull, to the forefront of the changes that swept British culture from the sclerotic 1950s into the swinging 60s. The book was a groundbreaking study of working-class culture and a critical appraisal of the changes wrought by the commercial forces - "publications and entertainments" as he puts it in the subtitle - that impinge upon it. Not only did it anticipate the opening-up of the cultural landscape, it also contributed to a critical and popular climate far more receptive to the subsequent explosion of books, films and art about working-class subjects by working-class artists. Hoggart soon found himself well placed to make important interventions that helped remake the cultural landscape. He was the driving force behind the Pilkington committee, which eventually led to the founding of BBC2. More dramatically, he was the star defence witness at the Lady

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Richard Hoggart

English sociologist

Richard Hoggart FRSL
Born	Herbert Richard Hoggart (1918-09-24)24 September 1918 Potternewton, Leeds, England
Died	10 April 2014(2014-04-10) (aged 95) London, England
Education	University of Leeds
Occupation	Academic
Children	3, including Simon & Paul

Herbert Richard HoggartFRSL (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.

Early life

Hoggart was born in the Potternewton area of Leeds, one of three children in an impoverished family. His father, Tom Longfellow Hoggart (1880–1922), the son of a boilermaker, was a regular infantry soldier and housepainter who died of brucellosis when Hoggart was a year old, and his mother Adeline died of a chest illness when he was eight.^[1] He grew up with his grandmother in Hunslet, and was encouraged in his education by an aunt. Emulating his elder brother, Tom, the first of the family to go to a gram

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Richard Hoggart Biography

Britishscholar and critic, brought up in Leeds, educated at Leeds University. Among many important posts, he was Professor of English at Birmingham from 1962, deputy Director-General at UNESCO (1970–5), and warden of Goldsmiths' College, London (1976–84). His most influential work, The Uses of Literacy (1957), about his childhood and his experience of working-class culture between the wars, did much to widen interest in the study of literature, education, communications, and popular culture. His autobiographical volumes include A Local Habitation (1988), A Sort of Clowning (1990), and An Imagined Life (1992). Other works on social questions and on literature include Auden (1951), Higher Education: Demand and Response (1969), Only Connect (1972; Reith Lectures), and English Cultural Studies (1987). His topographical work Townscape with Figures: Farnham, Portrait of an English Town appeared in 1994.

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