Angus Calder
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- Bachelors English University of Oxford
- PhD English University of Sussex
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish writer, historian, and poet. Initially studying English literature, he became increasingly interested in political history and wrote a landmark study on Britain during the Second World War in 1969 entitled The People's War. He subsequently wrote several other historical works but became increasingly interested in literature and poetry and worked primarily as a writer, though often holding a number of university teaching positions. A socialist, he was a prominent Scottish public intellectual during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Published Works
- The People's War: Britain, 1939-1945. (1969) (198)
- Source and health implications of high toxic metal concentrations in illicit tobacco products. (2005) (114)
- Analysis of non-organic elements in plant foliage using polarised X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (2004) (86)
- The People's War (1969) (84)
- Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s (1981) (31)
- Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945 (1998) (30)
- Speak for yourself : a mass-observation anthology, 1937-49 (1984) (29)
- Recovery of organic matter from mineral-rich sediment and soils for stable isotope analyses using static dense media. (2010) (25)
- Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic (1994) (24)
- Essays on the History of British Sociological Research: Mass-Observation 1937–1949 (1985) (21)
- The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose (1998) (11)
- Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation (2004) (11)
- Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) : a Scottish poet in South Africa (1982) (8)
- Byron and Scotland Radical or Dandy (1990) (4)
- Biomineralisation during operculum regeneration in the polychaete Spirobranchus lamarcki (2014) (4)
- Russia Discovered: Nineteenth-century Fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov (1976) (3)
- The Scottish National War Memorial (2017) (3)
- Writers in East Africa (1974) (3)
- A man for all cultures: the careers of learie constantine (2003) (3)
- Under Zomba Plateau: The New Malawian Poetry (1979) (2)
- The Rise of the Historical Novel. Volume Two. The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature (1992) (1)
- Summer fires : new poetry of Africa (1985) (1)
- 3. Leads from Leeds (1986) (1)
- Editors' Notes (1985) (0)
- 6. A Note on Parmenas Mockerie (1983) (0)
- Poor relations and rich publishers (1982) (0)
- Review: The Road to Home Rule (2001) (0)
- Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 1985 (1986) (0)
- Editorial (1987) (0)
- JOHN M. MACKENZIE: Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960 (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 1984, pp. 277, £25.00). (1986) (0)
- The Souls of the Dead Are Taking the Best Seats: 50 World Poets on War (2005) (0)
- Poems (2004) (0)
- HAROLD L. SMITH (ed.), War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War. (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1990, pp. xi and 271, Pbk. £13.95). (1991) (0)
- Biomineralisation during operculum regeneration in the polychaete Spirobranchus lamarcki (2014) (0)
- Editorial (1982) (0)
- Russia Discovered: 19th Century Fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov (1978) (0)
- Biomineralisation during operculum regeneration in the polychaete (2014) (0)
- Fiddles and false IDs (2003) (0)
- Crossing the border : images of England in the 1930s (1989) (0)
- Scott L. V.. Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service, 1945–1951. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1993. Pp. xi, 304. $53.00. ISBN 0-19-820421-3. (1995) (0)
- Abbreviations of Works by Hugh MacDiarmid (2006) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- The New Zimbabwe writing and Chimurenga (1995) (0)
- Jefferys Kevin. The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940–1945. Manchester: Manchester University Press; distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 1991. Pp. vii, 242. $49.95. (1992) (0)
- Poems: For Rupsha Fraser on Her Eighteenth Birthday (2004) (0)
- The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose Vol. 2 (1996) (0)
- The Making of 'Schwarzer Orpheus': Janheinz Jahn and George Shepperson (1980) (0)
- Art & Society: Art for a New Scotland? (1993) (0)
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