Background
HOGGART, Richard was born on September 24, 1918 in Leeds. Son of Tom Longfellow Hoggart and Adeline Emma Hoggart (nee Long).
HOGGART, Richard was born on September 24, 1918 in Leeds. Son of Tom Longfellow Hoggart and Adeline Emma Hoggart (nee Long).
Leeds University, United Kingdom, 1939, Bachelor of Arts, 1940, Master of Arts. Spoken languages: English, French.
Writer and educator; Lecturer in English, University of Leicester 62. Visiting Professor University of Rochester, New York 1956-1957. Professor, of English, Birmingham University 1962-1973.
President British Association of former United Nations Civil Servants 86.
Chairman European Museum of the Year. Director Centre for Contemporary" Cultural Studies 1964-1973.
Chairman Arts Council Drama Panel 1977-1980, Vice-Chairman Arts Council 1980-1981, Chairman Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education 1977-1983, The Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Limited. 1978-1981; Governor Royal Shakespeare Theatre 1966-1988.
Assistant Director-General for Social Sciences, Humanities and Culture United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1970-1975.
Warden of Goldsmiths’ College 1976-1984. Honorary Visiting Professor, University of East. Anglia since 1985, University of Surrey since 1985. Honorary Fellow Sheffield City Polytechnic 1983, Goldsmiths" College 1987.
British Broadcasting Corporation Reith Lecturer 1971.
Honorary Doctorate. University (Open University) 1972. Honorary Doctorate.-6s-L. (Bordeaux) 1974, (Paris) 1987.
Honorary Doctorate. University (Surrey) 1981. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Council for National Academic Awards) 1982, (York University, Toronto) 1988.
Honorary Litt.DJE. Anglia) 1986, Honorary Doctor of Literature
(Leicester University), (Hull University) 1988.
Speaking to Each Other About Society, 1970. Speaking to Each Other About Literature, 1970. Only Connect, Reith Lectures, 1972.Teaching Literature, 1963. WH Auden: A Selection, 1961. The Uses of Literacy, 1957.
Auden 1951, The Uses of Literacy 1957, W. H. Auden—A Selection 1961, Teaching Literature 1963, The Critical Moment 1964, How and Why Do We Learn 1965, Essays in Literature and Culture 1969, Speaking to Each Other 1970, Only Connect 1972, An Idea and Its Servants 1978, An English Temper 1982, The Future of Broadcasting (editor with Janet Morgan) 1978, An Idea of Europe (with Douglas Johnson) 1987, A Local Habitation 1988, Liberty and Legislation (Editor) 1989, A Sort of Clowning 1990.
Albemarle Committee on Youth Services 1958-1960, Youth Service Development Council 1960-1962. Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting 1960-1962. British Broadcasting Corporation General Advisory Council 1959-1960, 1964-1970, Arts Council of Great Britain 1976-1981, Culture Advisory Committee of United Kingdom National Commission, to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1966-1970, Communications Advisory Committee of United Kingdom National Commission, to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1977-1979, Wilton Park Academic Council since 1983.
Married Mary Holt France in 1942.