Herbert richard hoggart biography

          Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.

        1. Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
        2. Richard Hoggart.
        3. Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (24 September – 10 April ) was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature.
        4. Born in into a working-class family in Hunslet, Leeds, and orphaned at an early age, Herbert Richard Hoggart gained a scholarship to Cockburn High School.
        5. Richard Hoggart, who has died aged 95, was one of Britain's foremost post-war public intellectuals and cultural commentators.

          6. Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (24 September – 10 April ) was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature....

          Hoggart, Richard, 1918 - 2014

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          Dates

          • Existence: 1918 - 2014
          • Usage: 1918 - 2014

          Biography

          Born in 1918 into a working-class family in Hunslet, Leeds, and orphaned at an early age, Herbert Richard Hoggart gained a scholarship to Cockburn High School and went on to study English at the University of Leeds where he gained a first-class degree and an M.A.

          Subsequently drafted into the army during the Second World War he served as an officer in North Africa and Italy, being discharged in 1946.

          The extensive biographical entry in Who's Who shows that during the active and varied career which followed, devoted to academic and public affairs, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Hull; a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester; Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which he founded, at the University of Birmingham; an Assistant Director-General of UNE