Richard
Hoggart was born in Leeds in 1918. Educated
at Cockburn High School and the University of Leeds he served in the
British
Army during
the Second World War.
In
1946 he became a tutor at the University of Hull. Later he lectured
in English at the University of Leicester and the University of Birmingham.
In 1964 he established
the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham.
Books by Hoggart included
W. H. Auden (1951), The
Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957),
The Critical Movement (1964),
Speaking to Each Other (1970),
Only Connect (1972), Speaking
to Each Other (1973), An Idea
and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (1978), An
English Temper (1982), An Idea
of Europe (1987), A Local Habitation:
Life and Times 1918-40 (1989), An
Imagined Life: Life and Times 1959-91 (1992), A
Measured Life (1994), First and
Last Things (2001) and Everyday
Language and Everyday Life (2003).
Hoggart was replaced by
Stuart Hall as director of the Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1968. Hoggart was also Assistant
Director-General of UNESCO (1971-1975), Warden of Goldsmiths College,
University of London (1976-1984) and a member of the Arts Council
of Great Britain.
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