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A collection of books from the personal library of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural studies, academic administrator, writer, broadcaster, literary critic, cultural analyst and international civil servant, whose work spanned the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the early years of the twenty-first.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence of Richard Hoggart, academic, broadcaster and writer on cultural matters. The papers were transferred to the Library in two separate accessions and are currently catalogued separately. The main part of the collection (Section 1) comprises a substantial part of the personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural...