Angus Calder was an academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor, and Reader in Cultural Studies and Staff Tutor in Arts with the Open University in Scotland. He read English at Cambridge and received his D. Phil from the School of Social Studies at the University of Sussex. He was Convener of the Scottish Poetry Library when it was founded in 1984. In 1970 he won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his seminal work, The People”s War. His other books include Revolutionary Empire and The Myth of the Blitz. He died in 2008.
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Evelyn Waugh: Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh’s masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin Stannard Waugh’s own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a …
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T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
With an Introduction by Angus Calder.As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First Wor …
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Angus Calder: People’s War
The Second World War was, for Britain, a ‘total war’; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and …
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Angus Calder: Myth Of The Blitz
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory …
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Craig Gibson: The One O’Clock Gun Anthology
Distributed free in Edinburgh’s bars and bookshops the One O’Clock Gun began in 2004 as a thought provoking, ballsy and often irreverent paper that initially appeared with a humble few followers.Toda …
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Angus Calder & Alan Spence: 3 Estaites
The 3 Estaites is – by common consent – Scotland’s greatest play.First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Full of broad humour and pantomime-lik …
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