Eric Midwinter
English author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Clare Midwinter OBE, is an English author, broadcaster and academic. He is a consumer advocate, a social policy analyst, a historian of the sport of cricket and an expert on British comedy. Life and career Eric Midwinter was born in Sale, Lancashire, in 1932, and was educated at a local grammar school and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read history. Between 1968 and 1971 he led the team for action research in the Liverpool Education Priority Area. Between 1972 and 1975, as Principal of the Liverpool Teachers’ Centre, he established an organisational structure capable of delivering continuing professional development to all teachers in Liverpool. He was Chairman of the London Regional Passengers Committee, the government-appointed watchdog for public transport, from 1984 to 1996. He was Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing from 1980 to 1991, when the centre was developing its role as a policy institute, and is now its chairman. He was Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Exeter from 1992 to 2001.
Eric Midwinter's Published Works
Published Works
- The development of social welfare in Britain (1994) (33)
- Age and Inequality (2006) (27)
- Mutual aid universities (1984) (23)
- Forced to be free (1986) (21)
- Workers versus Pensioners (1989) (21)
- Patterns of community education (1973) (19)
- How many people are there in the third age? (2005) (19)
- Education for sale (1977) (17)
- Victorian Social Reform (1986) (16)
- Social administration in Lancashire, 1830-1860: Poor Law, public health and police (1969) (15)
- Education and the community (1975) (12)
- Pensioned Off: Retirement and Income Examined (1997) (12)
- Age is opportunity: Education and older people (1982) (12)
- An Ageing World: The Equivocal Response (1990) (11)
- Nineteenth century education (1970) (11)
- Fair Game: Myth and Reality in Sport (1950) (9)
- As old as you feel. (1988) (8)
- Priority education: An account of the Liverpool project (1972) (8)
- The professional-lay relationship: a Victorian legacy. (1977) (7)
- Teachers' Centres: The Facilitators (1974) (7)
- Law and order in early Victorian Lancashire (1968) (6)
- The Wage of Retirement: The Case for a New Pensions Policy (1985) (6)
- State Intervention at the Local Level: The New Poor Law in Lancashire (1967) (6)
- The illustrated history of county cricket (1992) (5)
- The University of the Third Age in Britain (1983) (4)
- Policies On Ageing (1987) (4)
- The social history of older age. (2009) (3)
- THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THEIR LIKELY EFFECTS ON THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ELDERLY (1984) (3)
- The brylcreem summer : the 1947 cricket season (1991) (2)
- W.G.Grace: His Life and Times (1981) (2)
- Living in the Twilight (1971) (2)
- Never too late to learn. (2004) (2)
- Teachers: Organised Labour Force of a Nationalised Industry (1977) (1)
- Feedback on Empowering Older People?Old age and community development (1992) (1)
- The Administration of Public Education in Late Victorian Lancashire (1969) (1)
- Schools in society (1980) (1)
- A TORY INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY: SOME COMMENTS (1966) (1)
- The Lost Seasons: Cricket in Wartime, 1939-45 (1987) (1)
- Schools in society: The evolution of English education (1980) (1)
- Street Party Politics (1977) (1)
- The E.P.A. Community School (1973) (1)
- Creating chances: Arts by older people (1990) (1)
- Retired leisure : four ventures in post-work activity (1987) (1)
- A rich situation: Eric Midwinter takes issue with tax breaks for the elderly (1989) (0)
- The Missing Ingredient. (1977) (0)
- ASO volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1982) (0)
- Malcolm Wicks, A Future for All: Do we Need a Welfare State? Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1987, 301 pp., £3.95, ISBN 0 14 022411 4 (1987) (0)
- Addicted to cricket: Essays on the game [Book Review] (2011) (0)
- Student Help for the Educationally Disadvantaged (2018) (0)
- Mutual Aid Universities (Routledge Revivals) (2014) (0)
- Local Government and the Consumer (1979) (0)
- Experimental Parent and Pre-School Education Programme (1976) (0)
- A rich situation. (1989) (0)
- As old as you feel (1988) (0)
- Integrating Care Systems: practical perspectives, Dick Stockford (ed.), Harlow, Longman, 1988. xx + 167 pp. ISBN 0 582 02483 8, £12.95 (1989) (0)
- Developments in Local Services (1979) (0)
- The ultimate in home and school (2012) (0)
- New design for old: Function, style, and older people (1988) (0)
- THE NEW DEMOCRACY: A STRUCTURE FOR CONSUMER REPRESENT ATION IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES (1977) (0)
- THE NEW DEMOCRACY: A FORMULA FOR CONSUMER REPRESENTATION IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES (1977) (0)
- Johnson Julia and Slater Robert (eds) Ageing and Later Life, Sage, London, 1993, 369 pp., hbk £37.50, ISBN 0 803 98965 2, pbk £13.95, ISBN 0 803 98966 0. (1994) (0)
- Fair Game (RLE Sports Studies) : Myth and Reality in Sport (2014) (0)
- Community care, community life : promoting the consume-citizen (1991) (0)
- Central and Local Government in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire (1968) (0)
- W. S. Gilbert: Victorian Entertainer (1987) (0)
- Paul Johnson, Christoph Conrad and David Thomson (eds), Workers versus Pensioners; Intergenerational Justice in an Ageing World . Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989, 204 pp., £22.50, ISBN 0 7190 3038 2. (1989) (0)
- Make 'em laugh (1979) (0)
- A dazzling array of communication (2012) (0)
- Educational Priority Areas and the Community School. (1970) (0)
- Give Us the Schools... (1977) (0)
- David A. Peterson, Facilitating Education for Older Learners Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1983, 342 pp., £18.95, ISBN 0 87589 565 4. (1984) (0)
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