Background
Cole, George Douglas Howard was born on September 25, 1889 in Cambridge, England. Son of George and Jessie (Knowles) Cole.
Cole, George Douglas Howard was born on September 25, 1889 in Cambridge, England. Son of George and Jessie (Knowles) Cole.
Student St. Paul’s School, London, 1902-1908. Bachelor of Arts, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1912, Master of Arts, 1915.
Research fellow, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, 1912. Deputy professor philosophy, Durham U., 1913-1914. Fellow Magdalen College until 1919.
Head research department Amalgamated Engineers, 1915-1918. Labour Party, 1918-1921. Staff tutor London U., 1921-1925.
Reader in economics University of Oxford and fellow of University College, University of Oxford, 1925-1944. Fellow Nuffield College, 1940-1944. Chairman Social Reconstruction Survey, University of Oxford, 1940-1944.
Sub-warden Nuffield College, 1942-1943. Chichele professor social and political theory, University of Oxford, and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1944-1957. Honorary fellow University College, Oxford, since 1945.
Chairman Fabian Society, 1939-1946, 48-50, president since 1952. Member board Institute Social History.
Author of many books on economic, social and political questions of which the following are among the more recent: Of Persons and Periods, 1938. British Trade Unionism Today, 1938. The Common People (with R. W. Postgate), review 1947.Socialism in Evolution. 1938
A Plan for Democratic Britain, 1939. Chartist Portraits, 1941.Europe, Russia and the Future, 1941. Great Britain in the post-war world, 1942. Fabian Socialism, 1943.Full Employment, 1943. Money, Present & Future, 1944. Building & Planning, 1945.Samuel Butler, 1947
History of Labour Party, Meaning of Marxism, 1948. World in Transition, 1949. Essays in Social Theory, 1950.Socialist Economics, 1949. (with wife, about 30 detective stories, of which following are the more recent). Big Business Murder, 1935.Doctor Tancred Begins, 1935. Scandal at School, 1936. Last Will and Testament, 1936.The Brothers Sackville, 1936. Disgrace to the College, 1937. The Missing Aunt, 1937.Mistress Warrender’s Profession, 1938. Off with Her Head, 1938. Double Blackmail, 1939.Greek Tragedy. 1938
Wilson and Some Others, 1940. Murder in the Munition Works, 1940. Counterpoint Murder, 1941.Knife in the Dark, 1941. Toper’s End, 1942
Death of a Bride. 1945
also author of various history works, including A Short History of the British Working Class Movement, Lives of William Cobbett and Robert Owen, and A Century of British Cooperation, 1945.A Short History of the British Working-Class Movement (1789-1947), 1948. A History of the Labour Party from 1914 (1948). The Meaning of Marxism, 1948.World in Transition (United States of America only), 1949. Introduction to Economic History 1750-1950, 1952. Socialist Thought, I: The Forerunners 1789-1850, 1953.Socialist Thought, II: Marxism and Anarchism, 1848-1890, 1954, III: The Second International, 1889-1914, 1955. IV: Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, 1956. V: Socialism and Facism, 1931-1939, 1960.An Introduction to Trade Unionism, 1953. Money, Trade and Investment, 1954. The Post-War Condition of Britain, 1956.The Case for Industrial Partnership.
Fellow Royal Economic Society, Royal Statistical Society. Member Labour party. Club: Detection (London).
Married Margaret Isabel Postgate, August 18, 1918. Children: Janet Elizabeth, Anne Rachel, Humphrey John Douglas.