Richard Hoggart

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Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture. He is widely known for his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy[1]. This book was differently interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.

He was 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). The 'Main Building' at Goldsmiths has now been re-named the 'Richard Hoggart Building' in tribute to his contributions to the university college.

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, in a 2006 dramatisation of which for digital television channel BBC Four, The Chatterley Affair, he was played by actor David Tennant.

He has two sons, political journalist Simon Hoggart and television critic Paul Hoggart, as well as a daughter Nicola.

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  • Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2004) ISBN 0-8264-7285-0
  • Everyday Language and Everyday Life (Transaction Publishers, 2003) ISBN 0-7658-0176-0
  • Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical (Transaction Publishers, 2002) ISBN 0-7658-0097-7
  • Between Two Worlds: Essays, 1978-1999 (Aurum Press, 2001) ISBN 1-85410-782-8
  • First and Last Things: The Uses of Old Age (Aurum Press, 1999) ISBN 1-85410-660-0
  • The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1-56000-953-5
  • The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Chatto and Windus, 1995) ISBN 0-7011-6501-4
  • A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Transaction Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1-56000-135-6
  • Townscape with Figures: Farnham - Portrait of an English Town (Chatto and Windus, 1994) ISBN 0-7011-6138-8
  • An Imagined Life: Life and Times 1959-91 (Chatto and Windus, 1992) ISBN 0-7011-4015-1)
  • A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 (Chatto and Windus, 1990) ISBN 0-7011-3607-3 first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds
  • Liberty and Legislation (Frank Cass Publishers, 1989) ISBN 0-7146-3308-9
  • A Local Habitation, 1918-40 (Chatto and Windus, 1988) ISBN 0-7011-3305-8
  • An Idea of Europe (Chatto and Windus, 1987) ISBN 0-7011-3244-2)
  • The Worst of Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray, Richard Hoggart (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1986) ISBN 0-389-20574-5
  • British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al (British Council, 1986) ISBN 0-86355-048-7
  • The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart, Janet Morgan (Holmes & Meier, 1982) ISBN 0-8419-5090-3
  • An English Temper (Chatto and Windus, 1982) ISBN 0-7011-2581-0
  • An Idea and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (Chatto and Windus, 1978) ISBN 0-7011-2371-0
  • After Expansion, a Time for Diversity: The Universities Into the 1990's (ACACE, 1978) ISBN 0-906436-00-1
  • Only Connect: On Culture and Communication (Reith Lectures) (Chatto and Windus, 1972) ISBN 0-7011-1865-2
  • Speaking to Each Other: About Society v. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0-7011-1463-0
  • Speaking to Each Other: About Literature v. 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0-7011-1514-9
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies: An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society (Univ. Birmingham, Centre for Contemp. Cult. Studies, 1969) ISBN 0-901753-03-3 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 0-900565-62-4
  • Teaching Literature (Nat. Inst. of Adult Education, 1963) ISBN 0-900559-19-5
  • The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Chatto and Windus, 1957) ISBN 0-7011-0763-4
  • Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0-7011-0762-6 biography of W.H. Auden
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